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OFFICIAL  REPORT  OF  THE 
PROCEEDINGS 


Fifteenth  Republican 
National  Convention 


CHICAGO,  ILLINOIS 
JUNE   18,   19,  20,  21   AND   22,   1912 


RESULTING  IN  THE   NOMINATION   OF 


WILLIAM  HOWARD  TAFT,  of  Ohio,  for  President 


AND  THE  NOMINATION   OF 


JAMES  SCHOOLCRAFT  SHERMAN,  of  New  York 
for  Vice-President 


REPORTED  BY  MILTON  W.  BLUMENBERC.  OFFCIAL  REPORTER 


Published  Under  the  Supervision  of  the  General  Secretary  of  the  Convention 


THE  TENNY  PRESS 

727    SEVENTH    AVENUE 

NEW  YORK  CITY 


COPYRIGHT,  1912 
BY  LAFAYETTE  B.   GLEASON 


ILLUSTRATIONS 


Barnes,    William,   Jr C4 

Blumenberg,  M.  W 96 

Fairbanks,  Charles  \V 128 

Gleason,  Lafayette  B 48 

Hayward,    William    24 

Hilles,   Charles   D 28 

Kelly,   George   T 451 

Mulvane,   D.    W 176 

Murphy,   Franklin    160 

New,    Harry    S 144 

Reynolds,  James  B 32 

Root,    Elihu    42 

Rosewater,    Victor 23 

Roth,  John  C ? 192 

Sheldon,  George  R 36 

Sherman,  James  S 22 

Stone,  W.  F 48 

Taft,   William   H 7 

Upham,  Fred  W 208 

Vorys,  Arthur  1 224 

Williams,    Ralph    E 240 


308084 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  CONVENTION 


CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  NATIONAL  COMMITTEE 

VICTOR  ROSE  WATER 

OF  NEBRASKA 
SECRETARY  OF  THE  NATIONAL  COMMITTEE 

WILLIAM  HAYWOOD 

OF  NEBRASKA 
TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  CONVENTION 

ELIHU  ROOT 

OF  NEW    YORK 
PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  CONVENTION 

ELIHU  ROOT 

OF    NEW   YORK 
GENERAL    SECRETARY 

LAFAYETTE  B.  GLEASON 

OF   NEW    YORK 
SERGEANT-A  T-ARMS 

WILLIAM  F.  STONE 

OF    MARYLAND 


WILLIAM  HOWARD  TAFT 


In  William  Howard  Taft  the  Republican  National  Convention  has 
nominated  for  the  Presidency  a  man  exceptionally  equipped,  not  only  by 
nature  and  training,  but  by  experience  and  achievement,  to  perform  the 
delicate  and  arduous  duties  of  the  greatest  office  in  the  gift  of  any  people. 
For  nearly  thirty  years  he  has  given  himself  with  single-minded  devotion 
to  the  public  service.  He  has  displayed  throughout  a  broad  grasp  of 
affairs,  a  literally  dauntless  courage,  an  unshakable  integrity,  a  quick 
and  all  embracing  sympathy,  a  deep  and  abiding  sense  of  justice,  a  mar- 
velous insight  into  human  nature,  a  sure  and  unwavering  judgment,  ex- 
ecutive ability  of  the  highest  order,  and  a  limitless  capacity  for  hard  work. 
In  all  the  years  of  its  history,  the  Republican  party  has  never  selected  as 
its  leader  in  a  National  Campaign  a  man  so  tried  beforehand,  and  so 
amply  proved  equal  to  the  task. 

A   FAMILY  OF  JURISTS. 

Mr.  Taft  comes  of  a  family  distinguished  in  the  law  and  the  public 
service.  The  first  American  Tafts  came  of  the  English  yeomanry, 
transplanted  across  the  Atlantic  by  the  great  upheaval  for  conscience's 
sake  which  peopled  New  England  with  its  sturdy  stock.  In  this  country 
they  turned  to  the  study  and  practice  of  the  law.  Peter  Taft  was  both 
a  maker  and  an  interpreter  of  laws,  having  served  as  a  member  of  the 
Vermont  legislature,  and  afterwards  as  a  judge.  Alphonso  Taft,  son 
of  Peter,  was  graduated  from  Yale  College,  and  then  went  out  to  the 
Western  Reserve  to  practice  law.  He  settled  in  Cincinnati,  and  it  was 
at  Mt.  Auburn,  a  suburb  of  that  city,  on  September  15,  1857,  that  his 
son,  William  Howard  Taft,  first  became  a  presidential  possibility. 

The  boys  grew  up  in  an  atmosphere  of  earnest  regard  for  public  duty 
too  little  known  in  these  days  of  the  colossal  and  engrossing  material 
development  of  the  country.  His  father  earned  distinction  in  the  service 
of  city  and  state  and  nation,  going  from  the  Superior  bench,  to  which  he 
had  been  elected  unanimously,  to  the  place  in  Grant's  cabinet  now  held 
by  the  son,  then,  as  Attorney  General,  to  the  Department  of  Justice,  and 
finally  into  the  diplomatic  service,  as  minister  first  to  Austria  and  then 
to  Russia.  His  mother,  who  was  Miss  Louise  M.  Torrey,  also  came  of 
that  staunch  New  England  stock  with  whom  conscience  is  the  arbiter 
of  action  and  duty  performed  the  goal  of  service. 

(7) 


8  WILLIAM      HOWARD     TAFT. 

HIS  MOTHER'S  INFLUENCE. 

It  was  her  express  command  that  sent  him  away  from  her  last  fall 
when  both  knew  that  she  was  entering  upon  the  last  stage  of  her  life. 
He  had  promised  the  Filipinos  that  he  would  go  to  Manila  and  in  person 
formally  open  their  Assembly.  It  was  to  be  their  first  concrete  experience 
in  self-government,  and  he,  more  than  any  other  man,  had  made  it  pos- 
sible. If  he  should  not  keep  his  promise  there  was  danger  that  the  sus- 
picious Filipinos  would  impute  his  failure  to  sinister  motives,  to  indif- 
ference or  altered  purpose,  with  result  vastly  unfortunate  to  them  and 
to  us.  Mr.  Taft  saw  all  that  very  clearly,  yet  in  view  of  his  mother's 
health  he  would  have  remained  at  home.  But  she  forbade.  She  said 
his  duty  lay  to  the  people  he  had  started  on  the  path  to  liberty,  and 
although  it  involved  what  each  thought  to  be  the  final  parting  she  com- 
manded him  to  go.  He  went  and  before  he  could  return  his  mother 
had  passed  away. 

Much  was  to  be  expected  of  a  boy  of  such  parentage,  and  young  Taft 
fulfilled  the  expectation.  He  began  by  growing  big  physically.  He  has 
a  tremendous  frame.  The  cartoonists  have  made  a  false  presentment  of 
him  familiar  to  the  country  by  drawing  him  always  as  a  mountain  of 
flesh.  But  if  they  had  gone  to  the  same  extreme  of  leanness,  and  still 
honestly  portrayed  his  frame  they  would  have  represented  a  man  above 
the  average  weight. 

AT  COLLEGE. 

Of  course  he  went  to  Yale.  His  father  had  been  the  first  alumnus 
elected  to  the  corporation,  and  when  young  Taft  had  completed  his  pre- 
paratory course  at  the  public  schools  of  Cincinnati  he  went  to  New 
Haven  for  his  college  training.  He  was  a  big,  rollicking,  good  natured 
boy,  who  liked  play  but  still  got  fun  out  of  work.  He  did  enough  in 
athletics  to  keep  his  225  pounds  of  muscle  in  good  condition,  but  gave 
most  of  his  time  to  his  studies.  When  the  class  of  '78  was  graduated 
Taft  was  its  salutatorian,  having  finished  second  among  120.  He  was 
also  elected  class  orator  by  the  class.  He  was  then  not  quite  21. 

He  went  back  to  Cincinnati  and  began  the  study  of  law  in  his  father's 
office,  at  the  same  time  doing  court  reporting  for  the  newspaper  owned 
by  his  half-brother,  Charles  P.  Taft.  His  salary  at  first  was  $6  a  week. 
He  did  his  work  so  well,  however,  that  Murat  Halstead,  editor  of  the 
Cincinnati  Commercial  Gazette,  employed  him  to  work  for  that  paper,  at 
the  increased  salary  of  $25  a  week. 

While  he  was  doing  this  he  was  keeping  up  his  studies,  taking  the 
course  at  the  Cincinnati  Law  School,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in 
1880,  dividing  first  honors  with  another  student,  and  being  admitted  to 
the  bar  soon  afterward. 


WILLIAM     HOWARD     TAFT.  9 

HIS  RESPECTS  TO  A  BLACKMAILER. 

That  fall  there  occurred  one  of  the  most  celebrated  and  characteristic 
incidents  in  his  life.  A  man  named  Rose  was  then  running  a  black- 
mailing paper  in  Cincinnati.  He  had  the  reputation  of  being  a  dangerous 
man.  He  had  been  a  prize  fighter,  and  was  usually  accompanied  by  a 
gang  of  roughs  ready  to  assault  any  whom  he  wanted  punished.  Alphonso 
Taft  had  been  the  unsuccessful  candidate  for  governor  at  that  election, 
and  Rose's  paper  slanderously  assailed  him.  For  once  young  Taft  for- 
got his  judicial  temperament  and  legal  training,  and  instead  of  setting 
the  law  on  the  blackmailer  he  marched  down  to  his  office  and  gave  Rose 
a  terrific  thrashing. 

Rose  quit  Cincinnati  that  night  and  his  paper  never  appeared  again. 
Young  Taft  had  had  his  first  spectacular  fight,  and  it  was  in  behalf  of 
somebody  else. 

It  is  not  the  purpose  of  this  sketch  to  attempt  a  detailed  biography  of 
Mr.  Taft.  It  merely  seeks  by  a  discussion  of  a  few  of  the  more  impor- 
tant events  of  his  life  to  show  what  manner  of  man  he  is.  They  reveal 
him  as  a  student  of  application  and  ability ;  a  man  with  an  abiding  sense 
of  justice,  slow  to  wrath,  but  terrible  in  anger;  courageous,  aggressively 
honest  and  straightforward ;  readier  to  take  up  another's  cause  than  his 
own.  This  is  a  foundation  on  which  experience  may  build  very  largely, 
and  that  is  what  it  has  done  for  Taft. 

THE   CALL   TO   PUBLIC   OFFICE. 

He  was  hardly  out  of  his  boyhood  when  he  was  called  to  public 
office,  and  in  most  of  the  years  since  then  he  has  devoted  himself  to 
the  public  service.  First  he  was  assistant  prosecuting  attorney  of  Ham- 
ilton County,  under  Miller  Outcalt,  now  one  of  the  leading  lawyers  of 
Ohio.  In  1881  he  became  collector  of  internal  revenue  for  the  first  Ohio 
district,  and  demonstrated  the  same  ability  in  business  that  he  had  shown 
in  the  law.  A  year  later  he  resigned  that  office  and  went  back  to  the 
practice  of  law,  with  his  father's  old  partner,  H.  P.  Lloyd.  In  1884  he 
became  the  junior  counsel  of  a  Bar  Committee  to  constitute  testament 
proceedings  against  T.  C.  Campbell,  whose  methods  of  practicing  law  had 
brought  on  the  burning  of  the  Hamilton  County  Court  House  in  Cin- 
cinnati. Though  technically  unsuccessful,  Mr.  Taft  made  a  good  reputa- 
tion from  his  conduct  of  this  matter  and  Campbell  was  driven  from 
Cincinnati.  In  1885  he  became  assistant  county  solicitor.  Two  years 
later  Governor  Foraker  appointed  him  Judge  of  the  Superior  Court,  to 
succeed  Judson  Harmon,  who  had  resigned  to  enter  President  Cleveland's 
cabinet. 

In  1886  Judge  Taft  married  Miss  Helen  Herron,  daughter  of  Hon. 
John  W.  Herron,  of  Cincinnati.  They  have  three  children,  Robert  Al- 


10  WILLIAM     HOWARD     TAFT. 

phonso,  a  student  at  Yale,  Helen,  a  student  at  Bryn  Mawr,  and  Charles 
Phelps,  2d,  who  attends  the  public  schools  in  Washington. 

HIS   JUDICIAL   CAREER  BEGUN. 

His  appointment  as  Judge  of  the  Superior  Court  was  the  beginning 
of  the  judicial  career  which  was  Taft's  ambition,  and  for  which  he  was 
so  eminently  fitted.  He  made  such  a  record  as  a  judge  that  at  the  close 
of  his  appointed  term  he  was  triumphantly  elected  for  another  term.  But 
already  he  had  attracted  attention  outside  his  state,  and  he  had  served 
but  two  years  of  the  five  for  which  he  had  been  elected  when  Presi- 
dent Harrison  asked  him  to  take  the  difficult  post  of  Solicitor  General 
of  the  United  States.  This  was  an  office  of  the  utmost  importance,  in- 
volving not  only  wide  learning  and  tremendous  application,  but  the  power 
of  clear  and  forceful  presentation  of  argument.  Two  of  the  cases  which 
he  conducted  as  solicitor  general  involved  questions  of  vital  importance 
to  the  entire  country.  The  first  grew  out  of  the  seal  fisheries  controversy 
with  Great  Britain.  Mr.  Taft  won  against  such  eminent  counsel  as  Joseph 
H.  Choate  who  is  widely  recognized  as  a  leader  of  the  American  bar. 
The  other  was  a  tariff  case  in  which  the  law  was  attacked  on  the  ground 
that  Speaker  Reed  had  counted  a  quorum  when  the  bill  passed  the  House. 
That,  too,  he  won.  It  was  during  his  term  as  solicitor  general  that  Mr. 
Taft  met  Theodore  Roosevelt,  then  civil  service  commissioner,  and  began 
the  friendship  which  has  continued  and  grown  ever  since  and  which  has 
had  such  far-reaching  influence  upon  the  lives  of  both  men. 

ON   FEDERAL  BENCH. 

Mr.  Taft's  record  as  solicitor  general  so  clearly  proved  his  fitness  for 
the  bench  that  after  three  years  in  Washington  he  was  sent  back  to 
Ohio  as  judge  of  the  Sixth  Federal  Circuit,  a  post  generally  recognized 
as  a  preliminary  step  to  the  Supreme  Court,  which  was  then  the  goal  of 
his  ambition. 

It  was  during  his  seven  years  on  the  federal  bench  that  Mr.  Taft's 
qualities  as  a  judge  became  known  throughout  the  country.  He  was 
called  upon  then  to  decide  some  of  the  most  important  cases  that  have 
ever  been  tried  in  the  federal  courts,  in  the  conduct  of  which  he  es- 
tablished an  enviable  reputation  for  learning,  courage  and  fairness — 
three  essential  attributes  of  a  great  jurist.  His  power  of  application  and 
his  ability  to  turnoff  enormous  masses  of  work  received  ample  demon- 
stration during  this  time.  It  was  in  this  period  of  his  service  that  he 
rendered  the  labor  decisions  which  have  made  him  famous  as  an  up- 
right and  fearless  judge.  In  his  treatment  of  both  labor  and  capital  he 
showed  that  here  was  a  judge  who  knew  no  distinction  of  parties  when 
they  appeared  as  litigants  before  him.  He  voiced  the  law  as  he  knew 


WILLIAM     HOWARD     TAFT.  11 

it  and  the  right  as  he  saw  it,  no  matter  where  the  blow  fell  or  whom  it 
struck.  If  sometimes  the  decisions  went  against  what  organized  labor  at 
that  time  believed  to  be  its  cause,  it  must  not  be  forgotten  that  no 
clearer  or  broader  statement  of  the  true  rights  of  labor  has  ever  been 
made  than  in  some  of  his  judicial  utterances.  Lawyers  conducting  litiga- 
tion in  other  courts  on  behalf  of  labor  unions  have  often  cited  these  de- 
cisions of  Judge  Taft  in  support  of  their  contentions.  Neither  should  it 
be  forgotten  that  one  of  the  most  important  and  far  reaching  of  all  his 
judgments  was  that  against  the  Addyston  Pipe  Company,  in  which  for 
the  first  time  the  Sherman  anti-trust  law  was  made  a  living,  vital  force 
for  the  curbing  and  punishment  of  monopoly.  When  this  case  reached 
the  Supreme  Court,  Mr.  Taft  received  the  distinguished  and  unusual 
honor  of  having  his  decision  quoted  in  full  and  handed  down  as  part  of 
the  opinions  of  the  high  court  which  sustained  him  at  every  point. 

PIONEERING   THE   ROOSEVELT   POLICY. 

The  Addyston  Pipe  decision  marked  the  beginning  of  the  struggle 
for  federal  control  of  interstate  corporations  which  in  the  later  yean 
has  come  to  be  known  as  the  "Roosevelt  policy."  Mr.  Taft  in  an  ad- 
dress to  the  American  Bar  Association  at  Detroit,  in  the  summer  of 
1895,  had  enunciated  the  principle  on  which  President  Roosevelt  has 
made  his  great  fight  for  the  suppression  of  monopoly  and  the  abolition 
of  special  privilege.  Thus  Mr.  Taft  pioneered  the  way  for  the  "Roose- 
velt policy." 

BLAZING    THE    PHILIPPINE   TRAIL. 

Since  the  settlement  of  the  reconstruction  question  no  more  delicate 
or  fateful  problem  has  confronted  American  statesmanship  than  that  of 
the  Philippines.  The  sudden  pitching  of  over-sea  territory  into  our 
possession  as  a  result  of  the  war  with  Spain,  created  a  situation  not  only 
unexpected  but  entirely  without  precedent.  There  was  no  guide  for  our 
statesmen.  The  path  had  to  be  hewed  out  new  from  the  beginning. 
There  was  no  crystalization  of  opinion  among  the  American  people  as 
to  what  should  be  done  with  the  Philippines.  A  considerable  element 
was  vigorously  opposed  to  retaining  them,  but  the  vast  majority  demanded 
the  maintenance  of  American  sovereignty  there.  Among  these,  at  first, 
the  desire  was  undoubtedly  due  to  the  glamour  of  aggrandizement.  The 
possibility  of  wealth  somewhere  beyond  the  skyline  always  catches  the 
imagination,  3na  there  can  be  no  question  that  the  great  mass  of  the 
people  moved,  without  serious  thought  of  the  consequences,  toward 
American  exploitation  of  the  islands. 

But  even  at  that  early  day  there  were  a  few — a  very  few — among 
the  leaders  of  American  thought  and  action,  who  saw  clearly  the  re- 
sponsibility thrust  upon  the  country  by  the  adventitious  possession  of 


12  WILLIAM      HOWARD     TAFT. 

the  Philippines,  and  determined  to  meet  it  fully,  no  matter  what  clamor 
cf  opposition  might  arise.  Among  these  President  McKinley  was  one. 
Mr.  Taft  was  another.  Mr.  Taft  had  been  opposed  to  taking  the  islands. 
He  was  opposed  to  retaining  them.  More  than  all  he  opposed  their 
exploitation  for  American  benefit.  He  believed  that  the  Philippines  be- 
longed to  the  Filipinos,  and  should  be  developed  in  the  interest  of  their 
own  people. 

SHOULDERING   THE   "WHITE   MAN'S    BURDEN." 

He  saw  the  possibility  of  lifting  a  feeble,  ignorant  people  into  the 
light  of  liberty  and  setting  them  upon  the  path  to  intelligent,  efficient 
self-government.  That  possibility  reconciled  him  to  the  continuance  of 
American  authority  over  the  islands,  for  none  saw  more  clearly  than  he 
the  chaos  certain  to  result  from  immediate  independence  for  the  Filipinos, 
with  its  inevitable  and  speedy  end  in  complete  and  hopeless  subjection 
to  some  other  power.  Therefore  when  President  McKinley  asked  him 
to  go  to  Manila  and  undertake  the  difficult  and  thankless  task  of  start- 
ing the  Filipinos  upon  their  true  course,  he  sacrificed  the  judicial  career 
which  was  his  life's  ambition  and  shouldered  the  "White  Man's  Burden." 
It  was  in  March,  1900,  that  he  received  his  appointment  as  chairman  of 
the  Philippine  Commission. 

Not  many  Americans  have  ever  comprehended  thoroughly  the  size 
of  Mr.  Taft's  undertaking,  or  the  full  meaning  of  his  achievement. 
Through  a  bungle  in  our  first  dealings  with  Aguinaldo  and  the  Filipinos 
the  entire  native  population  of  the  islands  had  come  to  believe,  with 
some  reason,  that  the  Americans  were  their  enemies  and  had  betrayed 
them.  Mr.  Taft  arrived  in  Manila  to  find  a  people  subdued  by  force  of 
arms,  but  unanimously  hostile,  sullen  and  suspicious.  They  were  still 
struggling,  with  the  bitterness  of  despair,  against  the  power  in  which 
they  all  saw  only  the  hand  of  the  oppressor. 

OVERCOMING    THE    BARRIER    BETWEEN    EAST   AND    WEST. 

Moreover,  their  leaders  had  been  inoculated  with  the  belief  that  be- 
tween west  and  east  there  is  an  impassable  barrier  which  will  always 
prevent  the  Occidental  from  understanding  and  sympathizing  with  the 
Oriental.  The  experience  of  generations  has  confirmed  them  in  that  belief. 
The  only  government  in  their  knowledge  was  tyranny.  The  only  edu- 
cation in  their  history  was  deceit.  The  only  tradition  they  possessed 
was  hatred  of  oppression,  made  concrete  for  them  by  their  experience 
with  western  domination. 

That  was  what  Mr.  Taft  had  to  face,  and  in  three  years  he  had 
overcome  and  changed  it  all.  He  did  it  by  the  persuasive  power  of  the 
most  winning  personality  the  Filipinos  had  ever  known.  He  met  them 


WILLIAM     HOWARD     TAFT.  13 

on  their  own  level.  He  lived  with  them,  ate  with  them,  drank  with 
them,  danced  with  them,  and  he  showed  them  that  here  was  an  Occi- 
dental who  could  read  and  sympathize  with  the  Oriental  heart.  He 
gave  them  a  new  conception  of  justice,  and  they  saw  with  amazement 
that  it  was  even-handed,  respecting  neither  person  nor  condition,  a  great 
leveler,  equalizing  all  before  the  law.  They  saw  Mr.  Taft  understanding 
them  better  than  they  had  understood  themselves,  comprehending  their 
problems  more  wisely  than  their  own  leaders  had  done,  and  standing 
all  the  time  like  a  rock  solidly  for  their  interests.  They  saw  him  op- 
posed by  almost  all  his  countrymen  in  their  islands,  denounced  and  as- 
sailed with  the  utmost  vehemence  and  venom  by  Americans  simply  be- 
cause he  steadfastly  resisted  American  exploitation  and  persisted  in  his 
declaration  that  the  Philippines  should  be  for  the  Filipinos.  They  saw 
him  laboring  day  and  night  in  their  behalf  and  facing  death  itself  with 
cheerful  resignation  in  order  to  carry  on  their  cause.  It  was  a  revela- 
tion to  them.  It  was  something  beyond  their  previous  ken,  outside  of 
all  their  experience,  their  education  and  their  tradition.  It  convinced 
them. 

A    REVELATION    TO   THE   FILIPINOS. 

Mr.  Taft  gave  them  concrete  examples  of  disinterestedness  and 
good  faith,  which  they  could  not  fail  to  comprehend.  He  gave  them 
schools  and  the  opportunity  of  education,  one  of  the  dearest  wishes  of 
the  whole  people.  No  man  who  was  not  in  the  Philippines  in  the  early 
days  of  the  American  occupation  will  ever  understand  thoroughly  with 
what  pitiful  eagerness  the  Filipino  people  desired  to  learn.  Men,  wo- 
men and  children,  white  haired  grandfathers  and  grandmothers  craved 
above  everything  the  opportunity  to  go  to  school  and  receive  instruction 
in  the  simplest  rudiments.  It  is  difficult  to  tell  how  deeply  that  eager 
desire  touched  Mr.  Taft  and  how  earnestly  he  responded  to  it. 

But  education  was  only  a  beginning.  Mr.  Taft  gave  the  Filipinos 
the  opportunity  to  own  their  own  homes.  It  was  another  concrete  ex- 
ample of  simple  justice.  When  they  saw  him  negotiating  for  the  Friar 
lands,  securing  for  the  Filipinos  the  right  to  buy  those  lands  on  easy 
terms,  it  went  home  to  the  dullest  among  them  that  he  was  working 
unselfishly  in  their  behalf.  And  they  saw  his  justice  in  their  courts. 
For  the  first  time  in  all  their  experience  the  poorest  and  humblest  Fili- 
pino found  himself  able  to  secure  an  even-handed  honest  decision,  with- 
out purchase  and  without  influence. 

Even  that  was  not  all.  They  saw  Mr.  Taft  literally  and  faithfully 
keeping  his  promise  and  calling  Filipinos  to  share  in  their  own  govern- 
ment, not  merely  in  the  subordinate  and  lowly  places  which  they  had 
been  able  to  purchase  from  their  old  masters,  but  in  the  highest  and 
most  responsible  posts.  They  saw  men  of  their  race  called  to  member- 
ship in  the  commission,  in  the  supreme  court,  and  in  all  the  other 


14  WILLIAM     HOWARD     TAFT. 

branches  of  their  government.     And  they  believed  the  promise  of  even 
wider  experience  of  self-government  to  come. 

AN    UNPARALLELED   ACHIEVEMENT. 

It  was  a  practical  demonstration  of  honesty  and  good  faith  such  as 
the  Philippines  has  never  known.  It  was  a  showing  of  sympathy,  jus- 
tice and  comprehension  which  could  not  be  resisted.  Conviction  fol- 
lowed it  inevitably.  The  whole  people  knew — because  they  saw — that 
the  Philippines  were  to  be  maintained  for  the  Filipinos,  and  they  recog- 
nized their  own  unntness  for  the  full  responsibilities  of  independent  self- 
government,  and  cheerfully  set  themselves  to  the  task  of  preparation. 

That  is  the  achievement  of  Mr.  Taft  in  the  Philippines.  It  has 
scarcely  a  parallel  in  history.  What  it  cost  him  he  paid  without  question 
or  complaint.  He  had  given  up  his  judicial  career  when  he  went  to 
Manila.  But  three  times  in  the  course  of  his  service  for  the  Filipinos 
the  opportunity  to  re-enter  it  came  to  him,  each  time  with  an  offer  of  a 
place  on  the  supreme  court  which  had  been  his  life-long  goal.  Each 
time  he  refused  it.  Not  even  President  Roosevelt  understood  the  call 
to  Mr.  Taft  from  the  Filipinos,  and  when  he  offered  a  supreme  court 
justiceship  to  Mr.  Taft  he  accompanied  it  with  almost  a  command.  But 
Mr.  Taft  declined.  He  saw  clearly  his  duty  lay  to  the  people  whom  he 
had  led  to  believe  in  him  as  the  personification  of  American  justice  and 
good  faith,  and  he  made  the  President  see  it  too.  How  the  Filipinos 
felt  was  shown  when  on  hearing  of  the  danger  that  Mr.  Taft  might  be 
called  away  from  Manila,  they  flocked  in  thousands  about  his  residence 
and  begged  him  not  to  go.  When  ultimately  he  did  leave  the  islands 
it  was  only  to  come  home  as  Secretary  of  War,  in  which  office  he  could 
continue  his  direction  of  Philippine  affairs  and  make  sure  that  there 
should  be  no  deviation  from  the  successful  line  of  policy  he  had  marked 
out. 

Nearly  four  years  have  elapsed  since  the  foregoing  chapter  on  the  life 
of  William  Howard  Taft  was  written. 

What  it  conveyed  of  prophecy  has  been  fulfilled;  what  it  spoke  in 
eulogy  has  been  vindicated.  At  the  close  of  his  first  four-year  term 
President  Taft  has  met  the  expectations  of  his  people ;  his  sympathies 
have  broadened,  his  experiences  ripened.  Malevolent  attack  at  no  time 
undermined  his  determination  and  courage  to  pursue  the  right;  tempta- 
tions to  cater  to  hollow  popular  applause  at  the  expense  of  the  general 
welfare  left  him  unmoved.  Bravely,  steadfastly  and  patiently  he  has  per- 
formed the  duties  of  his  high  office,  ever  seeking  the  light  that  pointed 
the  path  to  progress  and  reform.  And  when  the  Republican  National 
Convention  of  1912,  on  June  22,  gave  him  the  renomination  he  had  so 
well  earned  he  again  held  aloft  the  banner  of  social  and  material  better- 
ment of  all  the  people,  which  four  years  before  was  so  wisely  entrusted 


WILLIAM      HOWARD     TAFT.  15 

to  his  strong  hands.  And  in  those  four  years  the  progress,  development 
and  augmented  prosperity  of  the  American  people  constitutes  the  impor- 
tant chapter  that  is  to  be  added  to  President  Taft's  biography,  a  chapter 
upon  which  are  based  his  claims  to  greatness,  now  and  in  the  future  to 
be  acknowledged  by  the  people  whom  he  has  served  so  well. 

In  the  wealth  of  altruistic  achievement  no  record  of  American  Presi- 
dents has  ever  exceeded  that  of  President  Taft,  and  that  record,  details 
of  which  are  supplied  in  other  chapters  of  this  book,  can  be  touched  upon 
here  only  at  its  highest  peaks.  Upon  that  record  the  Republican  party, 
going  again  before  the  American  people,  will  ask  a  vote  of  confidence  in 
the  high-principled  American  statesman,  whose  courage,  tenacity  of  pur- 
pose, integrity  and  smiling  efficiency  have  made  it  possible. 

If  President  Taft  had  done  no  more  than  to  usher  in  an  era  of  calm 
enforcement  of  the  law,  where  rich  malefactor  stands  on  a  level  with  the 
criminal  poor,  he  would  yet  be  acclaimed  by  historians  as  Taft,  the  Just. 
If  he  had  done  no  more  than  to  write  the  stamp  of  his  disapproval  on 
the  Wool,  Steel  and  Free  List  measures,  to  register  his  unyielding  oppo- 
sition to  the  recall-of-judges  monstrosity — all  in  the  face  of  warnings 
that  the  acts  in  question  went  to  his  very  political  life — he  would  yet  be 
regarded  as  a  man  of  unflinching  courage,  as  a  Doer  of  the  Right  as 
God  had  given  him  the  light  to  see  it.  And  the  same  calm  courage 
marked  his  course  in  the  battle  he  waged  for  the  cause  of  peace,  when 
he  endeavored  to  place  the  United  States  in  the  vanguard  of  nations  who 
are  striving  for  a  solution  of  all  international  problems  without  a  resort 
to  the  sword — endeavors  in  which  he  was  thwarted  by  the  opposition  of 
Democrats  and  personal  representatives  of  Theodore  Roosevelt  in  the 
United  States  Senate. 

Great  as  were  these  achievements,  thus  lightly  touched  upon,  they 
constitute  but  a  small  part  of  the  record  as  it  is  written.  The  highest 
court  in  the  land  has  given  to  the  people  an  interpretation  of  the  Sherman 
law,  under  which  the  great  corporations  of  the  nation  now  stand  ready  to 
square  their  operations  to  the  terms  of  the  law.  The  President's  recom- 
mendation that  future  revisions  of  the  tariff  be  taken  up  schedule  by 
schedule,  following  the  report  of  a  non-partisan  tariff  commission,  which 
was  at  first  decried,  is  now  accepted  by  national  leaders  irrespective  of 
their  political  affiliations.  The  Payne  law  has  maintained  the  prosperity 
of  the  country,  providing  substantial  revision  downward,  yet  producing 
sufficient  revenue,  thanks  to  its  many  wise  provisions,  including  the  impo- 
sition of  an  excise  tax  on  corporations,  to  turn  a  large  Roosevelt  deficit 
into  an  equally  large  Taft  surplus. 

There  is  too  much  in  the  record  of  President  Taft's  first  term  in 
office  to  permit  anything  more  than  an  index  of  it  to  appear  in  a  chapter 
devoted  to  his  career.  It  includes  government  victories  in  the  Standard 
Oil  and  Tobacco  Trust  cases;  fearless  enforcement  of  the  Sherman  Act; 
the  abrogation  of  the  passport  treaty  with  Russia;  the  approaching  com- 


16  WILLIAM     HOWARD     TAFT. 

pletion  of  the  Panama  Canal,  without  hint  of  scandal;  the  admission  of 
Arizona  and  New  Mexico  to  Statehood;  the  exercise  of  rigid  ecenomy 
in  Government  Departments,  at  no  sacrifice  of  efficiency,  with  attendant 
reduction  of  estimates  and  appropriations,  and  the  placing,  for  the  first 
time  in  history,  of  the  Postoffice  Department  on  a  self-supporting  basis; 
the  carrying  on  of  military  maneuvers  along  the  Mexican  border,  that 
made  for  the  greater  safety  of  Americans  on  both  sides  of  the  borders 
and  that  preserved  American  neutrality.  That  record  includes  the  reor- 
ganization of  the  army,  providing  for  unprecedented  mobility  of  troops, 
and  for  the  maintenance  and  extension  of  the  power  of  the  Navy  as  an 
international  agency  for  peace  and  a  properly  equipped  guardian  of 
American  interests  under  the  provisions  of  the  Monroe  Doctrine;  the 
reorganization  of  the  customs  service,  with  its  attendant  elimination  of 
corruption,  exposure  and  punishment  of  frauds,  and  recovery  of  millions 
of  dollars;  the  creation  of  a  Bureau  of  Mines;  the  successful  issue  of 
workmen's  compensation  act  litigation  in  the  Supreme  Court,  leading 
system  of  river  and  harbor  appropriation ;  the  further  advancement  of 
the  cause  of  employers'  liability  legislation;  the  negotiation  and  ratifica- 
tion of  a  treaty  with  Japan  which  changed  troubled  and  tense  relations 
into  those  of  undisputed  amity;  the  negotiation  of  treaties  with  Nicaragua 
and  Honduras,  making  for  permanent  peace.  Postal  savings  banks  have 
been  established  and  parcels  post  is  on  the  way.  Reciprocity  with  Canada, 
approved  by  the  American  Congress,  was  rejected  by  the  Canadian  electo- 
rate, who  saw  in  it  a  greater  advantage  to  the  farmers  of  the  United 
States  than  to  the  farmers  of  our  neighbor  to  the  North.  Judicial 
appointments  were  taken  out  of  politics  and  non-political  methods  were 
made  successful  in  the  taking  of  the  Thirteenth  Census.  The  Income 
Tax  amendment  has  been  sent  to  the  States  for  ratification  and  approval. 
Conservation  policies  have  been  placed  on  a  real  working  basis.  The 
railroads  of  the  country  have  been  made  agencies  for  the  greatest  good 
and  were  compelled  to  abandon  the  project  to  increase  rates  without 
submitting  them  to  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  for  approval. 
China  was  opened  to  American  commerce  and  finance  on  terms  of 
equality  with  the  other  powers  of  the  world.  A  boiler  inspection  law 
was  enacted,  greater  liberality  was  exercised  toward  veterans  of  the 
Civil  War,  the  administration  of  law  was  reformed  in  important  par- 
ticulars, recommendations  were  submitted  looking  to  a  revision  of  the 
National  Currency  that  will  make  panics  impossible  in  the  future.  Bucket 
shop  and  get-rich-quick  concerns  were  crushed  out  of  existence,  and 
White  Slavery  and  Peonage  have  become,  in  a  measure,  problems  of  the 
past. 

Pages  on  pages  could  yet  be  written,  and  leave  the  history  of  those 
four  years  of  Taftian  achievement  incomplete.  What  is  here  presented 
serves  not  even  as  a  complete  index,  but  it  will  point  the  way  to  those 
who  would  seek  further.  It  points  the  record  upon  which  the  party 


WILLIAM     HOWARD     TAFT.  17 

presents  the  claims  of  William  Howard  Taft  to  the  American  people  in 
November. 

THE  BIRTH  OF  A  NATION. 

What  is  the  result?  The  birth  of  a  nation.  The  great,  powerful 
American  people,  through  the  compelling  agency  of  Mr.  Taft,  has  paused 
ever  so  slightly  in  its  triumphant  onward  march,  to  stoop  down  and 
lift  up  a  feeble,  ignorant  and  helpless  people  and  set  it  on  the  broad 
highway  to  liberty.  Vaguely,  uncertainly,  not  comprehending  clearly 
just  what  it  was  doing,  not  understanding  always  fully  either  the  object 
or  the  means  of  accomplishment,  but  its  heart  right,  and  submitting 
confidently  to  the  leadership  of  a  man  in  wihom  it  trusted  implicitly,  this 
nation  has  assisted  in  a  new  birth  of  freedom  for  a  lowly  and  oppressed 
people.  To  William  Howard  Taft  belongs  the  lion's  share  of  the  credit. 
Not  often  is  it  given  to  one  man  to  do  such  work  for  humanity.  Seldom 
is  such  altruism  as  his  displayed.  Many  other  honors  have  come  to 
him;  many  others  will  yet  come.  Among  them  all  none  will  be  of 
greater  significance  or  of  more  lasting  value  than  his  work  for  the 
Filipinos. 

SECRETARY  OF  WAR. 

It  is  not  important  here  to  discuss  in  detail  Mr.  Taft's  administra- 
tion of  the  War  Department  sincfe  he  succeeded  Elihu  Root  as  Secretary 
of  War  on  February  1,  1904.  He  has  been  at  the  head  of  it  during  the 
years  of  its  greatest  range  of  activity.  He  is  not  merely  Secretary  of 
the  Army,  as  almost  all  his  predecessors  were.  He  is  Secretary  of  the 
Colonies.  All  matters  of  the  utmost  importance  affecting  every  one  of 
the  over-sea  possessions  of  the  United  States  come  under  his  direction. 
The  affairs  of  the  army  alone  have  often  proved  sufficient  to  occupy  the 
whole  attention  of  an  able  secretary.  Mr.  Taft  has  had  to  handle  not 
only  those  and  the  Philippine  and  Cuban  business,  but  to  direct  the 
construction  of  the  Panama  Canal  as  well.  And  at  not  infrequent  in- 
tervals he  has  been  called  on  to  participate  in  the  direction  of  other 
weighty  affairs  of  government.  He  has  been  the  general  adviser  of 
President  Roosevelt  and  has  been  called  into  consultation  on  every  im- 
portant matter  which  has  required  governmental  action. 

The  administration  of  canal  affairs  has  required  in  a  high  degree 
that  quality  described  as  executive  ability.  The  building  of  a  canal  is  a 
tremendous  enterprise,  calling  constantly  for  the  exercise  of  sound  busi- 
ness judgment.  In  it  Mr.  Taft  has  displayed  in  ripened  proportions  the 
abilities  he  foreshadowed  when  solicitor  general  and  collector  of  internal 


18  WILLIAM     HOWARD     TAFT. 

BUILDING   THE   CANAL. 

When  Mr.  Taft  became  Secretary  of  War  this  country  had  just  taken 
possession  of  the  canal  zone,  under  treaty  with  the  republic  of  Panama, 
and  of  the  old  canal  property,  including  the  Panama  railroad,  by  pur- 
chase from  the  French  company.  The  work  was  all  to  do.  The  country 
expected  the  dirt  to  fly  at  once.  The  newspapers  and  periodicals  were 
full  of  cartoons  representing  Uncle  Sam  in  long  boots  with  a  spade  on 
his  shoulder,  striding  down  to  the  isthmus  to  begin  digging.  But  be- 
fore there  could  be  any  excavation  there  was  a  tremendous  task  to 
meet.  First  of  all  the  isthmus  must  be  changed  from  a  disease  breed- 
ing pest-hole  to  a  place  where  Americans  could  live  and  work  in  safety. 
The  canal  zone  must  be  cleaned  up,  mosquitoes  stamped  out  and  the 
place  made  sweet  and  healthy.  Habitations  must  be  constructed  for 
many  thousands  of  workmen  and  their  families.  The  cities  of  Panama 
and  Colon,  at  the  terminal  of  the  canal,  must  be  made  thoroughly  san- 
itary and  supplied  with  water  and  sewers.  An  organization  for  the  work 
of  canal  construction  must  be  perfected  and  millions  of  dollars'  worth  of 
machinery  and  supplies  must  be  purchased  and  transported  to  the  isthmus. 

All  these  things,  however,  were  of  a  purely  business  character.  It 
required  only  time  and  ability  to  handle  them  properly.  But  there  was 
another  matter  to  be  taken  care  of  before  these  could  be  undertaken, 
and  it  was  of  decidedly  different  nature.  The  Hay-Varilla  treaty  with 
Panama  had  secured  to  the  United  States  all  the  rights  necessary  for 
complete  control  of  the  canal  zone,  and  it  became  of  the  utmost  im- 
portance to  insure  the  maintenance  of  friendly  relations  with  the  people 
of  the  isthmus  republic.  It  would  certainly  greatly  increase  the  ordinary 
difficulties  of  building  the  canal  if  our  people  had  to  encounter  the 
hostilities  of  the  Panamanians. 

Here  was  a  problem  largely  similar  to  that  met  by  Mr.  Taft  in  the 
Philippines,  and  calling  for  the  exercise  of  the  same  qualities  of  tact, 
sympathy,  justice  and  patience  which  he  had  exhibited  in  the  Far  East. 

It  became  his  task  to  convince  the  Panamanian  people  and  govern- 
ment that  the  United  States  had  not  gone  to  the  isthmus  to  build  a 
rival  state  instead  of  a  canal.  As  head  of  the  War  Department,  and  the 
superior  of  the  Canal  Commission,  he  has  conducted  all  affairs  of  the 
original  treaty,  and  has  succeeded  in  keeping  our  relations  with  the 
isthmus  uniformly  pleasant.  Always,  at  least  once  a  year,  he  has  made 
a  trip  to  the  canal  zone  and  examined  affairs  there  with  his  own  eyes. 
He  but  recently  returned  from  the  isthmus,  the  President  having  sent  him 
there  to  settle  a  number  of  questions  which  required  his  personal  con- 
sideration on  the  ground.  Perhaps  some  conception  of  his  responsi- 
bilities on  the  isthmus  may  be  had  from  the  fact  that  since  the  actual 
work  of  canal  building  began  there  has  been  spent  on  it  upward  of 
$80,000,000,  and  every  dollar  of  that  expenditure  required  and  received 
his  approval. 


WILLIAM     HOWARD     TAFT.  19 

REAL   SELF-GOVERNMENT  FOR  CUBA. 

Aside  from  the  Philippines  and  the  Canal  the  greatest  call  that  has 
been  made  upon  Mr.  Taft  since  he  became  Secretary  of  War  came  from 
Cuba.  This  was  a  case  largely  similar  to  the  Philippine  problem.  The 
American  people  have  so  long  imbibed  the  theory  and  practice  of  self- 
government  with  their  mothers'  milk  that  they  have  developed  a  tendency 
to  believe  any  people  fitted  for  it  who  desire  it.  To  us  liberty  is  self- 
government,  but  to  many  a  people  with  neither  experience  nor  tradition 
of  anything  but  practical  autocracy  self-government  is  only  license.  So 
it  was  with  the  Cubans.  When  our  intervention  had  freed  that  island 
from  the  Spanish  yoke  we  deemed  it  sufficient  insurance  of  successful 
government  for  the  Cubans  to  require  them  to  adopt  a  constitution  before 
we  turned  the  island  over  to  them.  We  ignored  the  fact  that  Cuba  had 
no  experience  of  constitutions  or  understanding  of  their  functions.  So 
when  Cuba  had  conformed  to  our  requirement  we  sailed  away  from 
Havana  and  left  her  to  work  out  her  own  salvation  unaided  and  untaught. 

The  result  of  that  folly  was  inevitable  and  not  long  delayed.  The 
Cubans  having  adopted  a  constitution  they  had  not  the  slightest  idea  of 
what  to  do  with  it.  They  proceeded  to  govern  under  the  only  system 
of  which  they  had  any  knowledge.  The  proclamation  of  the  President 
took  the  place  of  the  old  royal  decree.  He  created  by  his  fiat  the  depart- 
ments of  government  which  should  have  been  established  by  law  of 
Congress  under  authority  of  the  Constitution.  Freedom  in  the  American 
sense  was  unknown  in  Cuba. 

ORDER  OUT  OF  CHAOS. 

The  experiment  was  aimed  toward  chaos  and  its  expectation  was 
quickly  realized.  In  September,  1906,  the  United  States  had  to  intervene 
again,  and  the  task  fell  on  Mr.  Taft.  Fortunate  it  was  both  for  the 
United  States  and  Cuba  that  it  was  so.  With  his  experience  of  the  Fili- 
pino as  a  guide  and  the  magnetism  of  his  personality  as  a  lever,  Mr. 
Taft  placated  the  warring  factions  and  secured  peaceable  intervention. 
Then  he  devised  and  set  up  a  provisional  government  which  all  the  Cu- 
bans accepted. 

It  was  the  intention  then  to  maintain  the  government  only  long 
enough  to  give  the  Cubans  a  fair  election  at  which  they  might  select 
their  own  government  by  full  and  free  expression  of  their  own  will. 
But  almost  immediately  the  provisional  government  discovered  the  fun- 
damental mistake  made  by  the  earlier  American  administration.  It 
found  that  the  Cubans  had  been  attempting  to  administer  a  govern- 
ment which  never  had  been  organized  and  existed  only  by  virtue  of  the 
President's  will.  Patiently  the  provisional  government  set  to  work,  under 
the  direction  of  Mr.  Taft,  to  provide  the  organization  under  the  funda- 


20  WILLIAM     HOWARD     TAFT. 

mental  law  which  the  Cubans  had  never  known  was  the  essential  of  suc- 
cessful self-government.  The  work  is  now  nearing  completion,  and 
when  next  the  Americans  quit  Havana  it  will  be  after  turning  over  to  the 
Cubans  a  government  machine  properly  established  and  fully  equipped, 
whose  operation  they  have  been  taught  to  understand  and  control.  Thus, 
to  two  peoples  has  Mr.  Taft  been  called  upon  to  give  instruction  in  practi- 
cal self-government. 

The  character  of  Mr.  Taft  is  the  resultant  of  strongly  contrasting 
forces.  He  is  a  man  who  laughs  and  fights.  From  his  boyhood  good 
nature  and  good  humor  have  been  the  traits  which  always  received  notice 
first.  But  all  the  time  he  has  been  capable  of  a  splendid  wrath,  which 
now  and  then  has  blazed  out,  under  righteous  provocation,  to  the  utter 
consternation  and  undoing  of  its  object.  Because  he  is  always  ready  to 
laugh,  and  has  a  great  roar  of  enjoyment  to  signify  his  appreciation 
of  the  humorous,  men  who  have  not  observed  him  closely  have  often 
failed  to  understand  that  he  is  just  as  ready  to  fight,  with  energy  and 
determination,  for  any  cause  that  has  won  his  support.  But  it  is  al- 
most always  some  other  man's  cause  which  enlists  him.  His  battles  have 
been  in  other  interests  than  his  own.  First  of  all  he  is  an  altruist,  and 
then  a  fighter. 

A   COMBATIVE   ALTRUIST. 

This  combative  altruism  is  Mr.  Taft's  most  distinguished  charac- 
teristic. As  Secretary  of  War  he  has  earned  the  world-wide  sobriquet 
of  "Secretary  of  Peace."  He  has  fought  some  hard  battles,  but  they 
were  with  bloodless  weapons,  and  the  results  were  victories  for  peace. 
The  greater  the  degree  of  altruism  the  keener  was  his  zeal,  the  harder 
and  more  persistent  his  battle.  The  greatest  struggle  of  his  career,  in 
which  he  disregarded  utterly  his  settled  ambition,  and  cheerfully  faced 
a  continuing  serious  menace  to  life  itself,  was  on  behalf  of  the  weakest 
and  most  helpless  object  in  whose  cause  he  was  ever  enlisted — the  Fili- 
pino people.  That  was  the  purest  and  loftiest  altruism. 

But  although  this  is  the  dominant  trait  of  Mr.  Taft,  he  is  well  known 
for  other  qualities.  His  judicial  temperament,  founded  upon  a  deep- 
seated,  comprehensive  and  ever  alert  sense  of  right  and  wrong;  his  cour- 
age, proved  by  repeated  and  strenuous  tests;  his  calm,  imperturbable  judg- 
ment, and  his  all  embracing  sympathy  are  characteristics  that  have  been 
often  and  widely  noted.  They  are  his  by  right  of  inheritance  from 
generations  of  broad-minded,  upright  men  and  women.  The  develop- 
ment of  his  country  has  extended  the  range  of  his  opportunity  and  given 
greater  scope  to  his  activities  than  was  enjoyed  by  Alphonso  Taft,  his 
father,  or  Peter  Rawson  Taft,  his  grandfather,  but  in  character  and  intel- 
lect he  is  their  true  descendant. 


WILLIAM     HOWARD     TAFT.  21 

The  American  people  know  Mr.  Taft  as  a  man  of  pervasive  good 
humor,  always  ready  with  a  hearty  laugh,  and  quick  to  see  fun  in  any  situ- 
ation. His  other  side  has  not  often  appeared,  but  he  is  capable  of  tremen- 
dous wrath.  Nothing  arouses  it  more  quickly  than  unfaithfulness  to  a 
trust  or  an  exhibition  of  deceit.  Injustice  in  any  form  stirs  him  to  the 
bottom  instantly.  He  has  a  broad,  keen,  quick,  all-embracing  sympathy, 
always  ready  to  respond  to  any  call.  His  sense  of  justice  is  won- 
derfully quick-springing  and  alert.  And  he  has  a  genuine  fondness  for 
work,  which  enables  him  to  derive  real  pleasure  from  his  task.  These 
qualifications  are  the  endowment  of  an  unusually  gifted  man.  The  people 
know,  because  they  have  seen,  his  ability  to  turn  off  an  enormous  amount 
of  work.  They  have  seen  him  prove  an  exceptional  executive  ability. 
They  have  seen  him  manifest  an  equipment  for  the  Presidency  such  as 
no  other  man  has  shown  before  his  election  to  that  office.  In  experi- 
ence, training  and  ability,  Mr.  Taft  has  amply  proved  his  fitness  for 
the  chief  magistracy  of  the  nation. 


JAMES  SCHOOLCRAFT  SHERMAN 


James  Schoolcraft  Sherman,  for  the  second  time  the  Republican 
nominee  for  Vice-President,  was  born  October  25,  1855,  in  the  same  ward 
of  the  City  of  Utica  in  which  he  now  lives.  The  house  Mr.  Sherman 
now  occupies  is  only  a  half  a  dozen  squares  from  the  house  in  which  he 
was  born. 

Mr.  Sherman  can  trace  his  ancestry  back  to  Sir  Henry  Sherman,  of 
Dedham,  England,  in  the  sixteenth  century,  and  the  male  succession  comes 
down  through  Henry,  Robert,  Willett  H.,  and  Richard  U. 

Richard  U.  Sherman's  mother  was  Catharine  Schoolcraft,  a  daughter 
of  Lawrence  Schoolcraft,  a  Revolutionary  soldier  and  a  friend  of  the 
Indians  of  the  Mohawk  Valley.  The  candidate  was  named  for  his  grand- 
mother's brother,  James  Schoolcraft. 

Richard  U.  Sherman,  the  Congressman's  father,  was  born  in  Vernon, 
Oneida  County,  New  York,  and  was  by  profession  an  editor,  although  a 
large  portion  of  his  life  was  spent  in  public  service.  He  was  Major- 
General  of  the  State  Militia,  an  alderman  of  Utica,  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Supervisors,  Chairman  of  the  Board  for  a  half  a  dozen  years, 
Clerk  of  the  New  York  State  Assembly,  three  times  a  member  of  As- 
sembly, and  was  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  the  State 
in  1867.  He  was  for  fifteen  years  President  of  the  Fish,  Forest  and 
Game  Commission,  and  very  much  interested  in  the  preservation  of  the 
Adirondacks.  He  was  Tally  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives  from 
1860  to  1870,  and  in  1872  was  the  Liberal  Republican  candidate  for  Mem- 
ber of  Congress. 

After  retiring  from  active  business,  Richard  U.  Sherman  accepted 
the  office  of  President  of  the  village  of  New  Hartford,  and  also  occupied 
the  position  of  Justice  of  the  Jeace,  and  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties 
as  such,  spent  most  of  his  time  bringing  about  amicable  settlements  of 
neighborhood  disputes. 

Congressman  Sherman's  mother  was  Mary  F.  Sherman,  a  lady  of 
most  beautiful  character,  whose  activities  outside  of  her  family  cares 
were  devoted  to  charitable  and  Christian  work.  The  memory  of  her  acts 
of  charity  and  kindness  and  her  pleasant  words  and  unbounded  hospit- 
ality is  treasured  by  all  who  came  within  her  circle. 

When  James  S.  Sherman  was  two  years  old  his  father  moved,  with 
his  family,  to  a  farm  two  miles  south  of  the  village  of  New  Hartford. 

(22) 


JAMES     S.     SHERMAN.  23 

Here  they  lived  until  1868.  In  the  fall  of  1868  Mr.  Sherman's  parents 
purchased  a  house  in  the  village  of  New  Hartford,  where  they  continued 
to  live  until  the  death  of  Mr.  Sherman's  mother  in  18D6,  his  father  having 
died  the  year  previous. 

Mr.  Sherman  lived  with  his  parents  until  1881,  when  he  was  married 
at  East  Orange,  N.  J.,  to  Carrie  Babcock,  taking  up  his  residence  in  the 
Seventh  Ward  of  the  City  of  Utica,  two  blocks  from  where  he  now 
resides. 

'While  Mr.  Sherman  lived  on  his  father's  farm  he  attended  the 
district  school,  half  a  mile  from  home.  After  removing  to  the  village 
of  New  Hartford  he  attended  the  public  school  in  that  town,  and  there 
attended  the  Utica  Academy.  Later  he  attended  the  Whitestown  Seminary, 
a  preparatory  school  situated  in  the  village  of  Whitesboro.  From  this 
school  young  Sherman  entered  Hamilton  College  in  the  fall  of  1874,  and 
was  graduated  in  1878.  In  school  and  college  he  was  distinguished  for 
general  good  fellowship  rather  than  scholarship.  He  gained  a  considerable 
reputation  as  a  declaimer  in  both  school  and  college,  carrying  off  the 
first  honors  in  declamation  at  the  end  of  his  Freshman  year.  He  also 
enjoyed  a  reputation  as  a  debator,  and  was  one  of  the  six  chosen  from 
his  class  at  the  conclusion  of  his  senior  year  to  contest  for  prizes. 

After  leaving  college  Mr.  Sherman  began  the  study  of  law  in  the 
office  of  Beardsley,  Cookinham  and  Burdick,  at  Utica,  N.  Y.  He  was 
admitted  to  practice  two  years  later,  and  formed  a  partnership  with  Hon. 
H.  J.  Cookinham,  his  brother-in-law.  He  continued  the  practice  of  law 
in  partnership  with  Mr.  Cookinham,  with  various  changes  in  the  personnel 
of  the  firm,  until  January  1,  1906,  when  he  withdrew  as  a  member  of  the 
law  firm. 

In  1899,  with  other  Utica  business  men,  he  organized  the  Utica  Trust 
and  Deposit  Company,  now  one  of  the  leading  banks  of  Central  New 
York,  and  was  chosen  as  its  President,  which  position  he  has  since  oc- 
cupied. The  New  Hartford  Canning  Company  was  organized  in  1881  by 
his  father  and  other  gentlemen,  and  after  his  father's  death  he  became 
president  of  the  company.  He  is  also  interested,  in  various  ways,  in  many 
other  local  enterprises. 

Mr.  Sherman's  first  active  work  in  politics  was  in  the  year  succeeding 
his  graduation  from  college,  when  he  spoke  a  few  times  in  different  parts 
of  the  county  in  advocacy  of  the  election  of  Alonzo  B.  Cornell,  Republi- 
can candidate  for  Governor,  making  his  first  speech  in  the  town  of  his 
residence.  During  the  last  fifteen  years  Mr.  Sherman  has  campaigned  in 
various  parts  of  the  State,  having  spoken  in  most  of  the  important  cities, 
and  in  a  great  many  minor  places,  as  well  as  in  a  dozen  or  more  states. 
During  various  campaigns  he  has  spoken  in  substantially  every  town  in 
Oneida  and  Herkimer  counties.  He  was  chosen  Mayor  of  Utica  in  1884. 
The  city  was  then,  as  now,  normally  Democratic,  but  he  was  elected  by 


24  JAMES   S.    SHERMAN 

a.  substantial  Republican  majority.  At  the  end  of  his  term,  which  was 
for  one  year,  he  declined  a  unanimous  renomination. 

He  was  first  named  for  Congress  in  1886,  the  contest  for  the  nomina- 
tion being  a  spirited  one,  there  being  a  half-dozen  candidates,  his  chief 
competitor  being  the  Hon.  Henry  J.  Coggeshall,  then  State  Senator  from 
that  district. 

Mr.  Sherman  was  renominated  each  succeeding  two  years  by  ac- 
clamation until  189G,  when  there  was  a  contest  for  the  nomination,  his 
competitors  being  Hon.  Scth  G.  Heacock,  of  Herkimer,  and  John  I.  Sayles, 
of  Rome,  Oneida  county.  He  presided  over  the  State  convention  in  1895 
as  temporary  chairman,  and  over  the  State  conventions  of  1900  and  1908 
as  permanent  chairman.  He  was  a  deligate  to  the  Republican  National 
Convention  in  1892. 

In  1S98  Mr.  Sherman  was  appointed  by  President  McKinley  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Board  of  General  Appraisers  at  the  City  of  New  York,  and 
the  nomination  was  confirmed  by  the  Senate.  It  was  his  desire,  at  that 
time,  to  accept  the  appointment,  but  political  and  business  friends  at  home, 
including  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  Republican  County  Com- 
mittee, adopted  resolutions  and  appointed  a  committee  to  wait  upon  him 
and  urge  him  not  to  retire  as  a  member  of  Congress  and,  in  conformity 
to  the  desire  of  his  constituents,  he  declined  the  appointment. 

Two  years  later  he  was  tendered  by  the  Steering  Committee  of  the 
Senate  the  position  of  Secretary  of  the  United  States  Senate.  Realizing 
that  the  wishes  of  his  constitutents  had  not  changed  within  two  years, 
he  declined  the  position. 

Mr.  Sherman  was  the  orator  on  the  occasion  of  the  laying  of  the 
cornerstone  of  the  building  presented  to  the  Oneida  Historical  Society  of 
Utica.  He  was  also  the  orator  on  the  presentation  of  the  Butler  Memorial 
Home  by  the  late  Morgan  Butler  to  the  town  of  New  Hartford.  The 
Indian  school  at  Riverside,  California,  was,  at  the  request  of  the  people 
of  Riverside,  named  by  the  then  Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs  "Sher- 
'  man  Institute"  in  his  honor. 

Mr.  Sherman,  early  in  his  congressional  career,  became  a  prominent 
member  of  the  House,  and  during  his  last  few  terms  was  numbered  among 
the  leaders.  His  parliamentary  ability  was  early  recognized  and  perhaps 
no  other  member  was  so  frequently  called  to  the  chair  to  preside  over  the 
Committee  of  the  \Yhole.  He  was  one  of  the  closest  friends  of  Speaker 
Reed,  as  he  was  of  Speaker  Henderson  and  Speaker  Cannon. 

For  fourteen  years  Mr.  Sherman  was  chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
Indian  Affairs  in  the  House  and  his  work  at  the  head  of  that  committee 
received  unstinted  praise  from  all  concerned  in  the  work  of  the  com- 
mittee, without  regard  to  party.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  committees 
on  Rules  and  Interstate  and  Foreign  Commerce. 

As   Vice-President   and   as    President   of   the    Senate   Mr.    Sherman's 


RON".    WILLIAM    HAYWOOI).   of    Nebraska, 

Secretary   Republican    National   Committee. 
Member    of    the    Committee    on    Arrangements. 


JAMES    S.    SHERMAN  25 

course  has  been  such  as  to  commend  itself  to  all  parties  in  that  great 
body.  It  is  universally  conceded  that  he  has  made  one  of  the  best  pre- 
siding officers  the  Senate  has  ever  enjoyed,  and  his  eminent  fairness  and 
unfailing  courtesy  is  realized  and  conceded  by  every  Senator.  For  the 
first  time  in  72  years  Mr.  Sherman  was  renominated  by  a  National  con- 
vention for  the  office  he  now  holds  and  the  vote  he  received  from  the 
delegates  to  Chicago  was  most  flattering  and  a  pleasant  testimonial  to 
his  popularity  and  worth. 

Mr.  Sherman,  besides  being  prominently  connected  with  numerous 
business  institutions  of  this  city  and  elsewhere,  is  also  a  member  of  many 
fraternal  and  social  organizations,  including  the  Royal  Arcanum  and  the 
Order  of  Elks.  He  is  a  trustee  of  Hamilton  College,  which  gave  him 
the  degree  of  LL.D.  in  1905.  In  college  he  was  a  member  of  the  Sigma 
Phi  Society,  the  second  oldest  college  society  in  this  country. 

Mr.  Sherman  has  been  a  regular  attendant  at  the  Dutch  Reform 
Church  in  Utica  since  his  marriage  in  1881.  Prior  to  that  time  he  had 
been  attending  the  Presbyterian  church  at  New  Hartford.  For  eight 
years  he  has  been  treasurer  of  his  church  and  for  some  time  he  was 
chairman  of  its  board  of  trustees.  He  has  three  sons,  Sherrill,  Richard 
U.,  and  Thomas  M.  All  are  married  and  are  connected  with  prominent 
business  concerns  in  Utica. 

Mr.  Sherman's  home  life  is  an  ideal  one.  His  house  is  located  in 
the  center  of  an  ample  plot  of  ground  and  gives  opportunity  for  Mrs. 
Sherman  to  indulge  in  her  love  of  horticulture,  which  she  improves  to 
the  full.  His  home  is  his  castle  and  with  his  wife,  children  and  grand- 
children gathered  about  him,  he  enjoys  it  more  than  any  other  spot  on 
earth. 

Four  years  ago,  and  this  year,  his  friends  and  neighbors,  not  only 
from  the  city  of  Utica,  but  from  the  adjacent  territory,  gathered  to  ex- 
press their  joy  at  his  selection  for  the  Vice-Presidency  and  the  testi- 
monials of  his  worth  and  popularity  were  such  as  are  paid  only  to  those 
who  have  merited  the  esteem  and  affection  of  a  community,  regardless 
of  party  ties  or  affiliations. 


Rep 


ublican    National    Committee 


CAMPAIGN    1912 


CHARLES  D.  HILLES,  Ohio,  Chairman. 
JAMES  B.  REYNOLDS,  Massachusetts,  Secretary. 
GEORGE  R.  SHELDON,    New  York,  Treasurer. 
WILLIAM  F.  STONE,  Maryland,  Sergeant-at-Arms. 


Executive  Committee 

JOHN  T.  ADAMS,  Iowa. 

FRED  W.  ESTABROOK,  New  Hampshire. 
JAMES  P.  GOODRICH,  Indiana. 

THOMAS  A.  MARLOW,  Montana. 
ALVAH  H.  MARTIN,  Virginia. 

THOMAS   K.  NEIDRINGHAUS,  Missouri. 
SAMUEL  A.  PERKINS,  Washington. 

NEWELL  SANDERS,  Tennessee. 

CHARLES  B.  WARREN,  Michigan. 
ROY  O.  WEST,  Illinois. 

RALPH  E.  WILLIAMS,  Oregon. 


Advisory  Committee 


WILLIAM  BARNES,  JR.,  New  York,  Chairman 
THEODORE  E.  BURTON,  Ohio. 

AUSTIN  COLGATE,  New  Jersey. 

THOMAS  H.  DEVINE.  Colorado. 

PHILLIPS  LEE  GOLDSBOROUGH,  Maryland. 

JOHN  HAYS  HAMMOND,  Massachusetts. 
JOSEPH  B.  KEALING,  Indiana. 

ADOLF  LEWISOHN,  New  York. 

HENRY  F.  LIPPITT,  Rhode  Island. 

DAVID  W.  MULVANE,  Kansas. 
HARRY  S.  NEW,  Indiana. 

HERBERT  PARSONS,  New  York. 
SAMUEL  L.  POWERS,  Massachusetts. 
ELIHU  ROOT,  New  York. 

JOHN  WANAMAKER,  Pennsylvania. 

GEORGE  R.  SHELDON,  New  York. 
OTTO  F.  STEIFEL,  Missouri. 

FRED  W.  UPHAM,  Illinois 

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Republican  National  Committee 


1912 


STATE.  NAME  P.   O.  ADDRESS. 

Alabama    PRELATE   D.    BARKER Mobile. 

Alaska    WILLIAM    S.   BAYLISS Juneau. 

Arizona    RALPH    H.    CAMERON Grand  Canyon. 

Arkansas    POWELL    CLAYTON    Washington,  D.  C. 

California    

Colorado    SIMON  GUGGENHEIM    Denver. 

Connecticut     CHARLES  F.  BROOKER Ansonia. 

Delaware     COLEMAN    DU   PONT Wilmington. 

District  of  Columbia. . . .  CHAPIN  BROWN    Washington. 

Florida     HENRY   S.   CHUBB Gainesville. 

Georgia    HENRY  S.  JACKSON Atlanta. 

Hawaii   CHARLES   A.   RICE Honolulu. 

Idaho    JOHN  W.   HART Menan. 

Illinois   ROY  O.  WEST Chicago. 

Indiana    JAMES  P.  GOODRICH Indianapolis. 

Iowa     JOHN  T.   ADAMS Dubuque. 

Kansas     F.  S.   STANLEY Wichita. 

Kentucky     JOHN    W.    McCULLOCH Owensboro. 

Louisiana     VICTOR  LOISEL    New  Orleans. 

Maine  FREDERICK  HALE Portland. 

Maryland     WILLIAM    P.   JACKSON Salisbury. 

Massachusetts    W.  MURRAY  CRAN  E Dalton. 

Michigan   CHARLES  B.  WARREN Detroit. 

Minnesota   E.    B.    HAWKINS Duluth. 

Mississippi    L.    B.   MOSELEY Jackson. 

Missouri    THOMAS  K.  NEIDRINGHAUS. .  St.    Louis. 

Montana    THOMAS  A.    MARLOW Helena. 

Nebraska     R.  B.   HOWELL Omaha. 

Nevada     H.   B.   MAXSON Reno. 

New   Hampshire    FRED  W.   ESTABROOK Nashua. 

New   Jersey    FRANKLIN   MURPHY    Newark. 

New   Mexico    CHARLES   A.    SPIESS Las  Vegas. 

New   York    WILLIAM    BARNES,    JR Albany. 

North   Carolina    E.   C.  DUNCAN Raleigh. 

North   Dakota    THOMAS  E.   MARSHALL Oakes. 

Ohio     SHERMAN    GRANGER 7anesville. 

Oklahoma    J.    A.    HARRIS Wagoner. 

Oregon     RALPH    E.    WILLIAMS Dallas. 

Pennsylvania     HENRY   G.    WASSON Pittsburgh. 

Philippines    H.    B.    McCOY Manila. 

Porto  Rico    S.   BEHN San  Juan. 

Rhode  Island   WILLIAM    P.    SHEFFIELD Newport. 

South   Carolina    JOSEPH   W.    TOLBERT Greenwood. 

South    Dakota    .    THOMAS    THORSON Canton. 

Tennessee    NEWELL    SANDERS Chattanooga. 

Texas    H.  F.  MacGREGOR Houston. 

Utah    REED  SMOOT  Provo. 

Vermont    JOHN  L.  LEWIS North  Troy. 

Virginia ALVAH  H.  MARTIN Norfolk. 

Washington    S.   A.    PERKINS Tacoma. 

West  Virginia   

Wisconsin   ALFRED  T.  ROGERS Madison. 

Wyoming    GEORGE   T.    PEXTON Evanston. 

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HON.   VICTOR   ROSKWATKR.  of  Nebraska, 

Chairman   of   the   Republican    National    Committee,   and    Member   of   Committee 
on    Arrangements. 


PROCEEDINGS 

OF  THE 

Republican    National    Convention 


HELD   IN 


CHICAGO,  ILLINOIS 

June  18,  19,  20,  21,  and  22,  1912 


FIRST  DAY 


CONVENTION  HALL 

THE   COLISEUM, 

CHICAGO,   ILL.,  JUNE   18,   1912. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  REPUBLICAN  NATIONAL  COMMITTEE  (Mr.  Victor 
Rosewater,  of  Nebraska). — The  hour  of  12  o'clock  having  arrived,  and  a 
quorum  manifestly  being  present,  the  Convention  will  be  in  order  while 
Father  Callaghan  invokes  Divine  blessing. 

PRAYER  OF  REV.  JAMES  F.  CALLAGHAN. 

Rev.  James  F.  Callaghan,  of  St.  Malachy's  Roman  Catholic  Church, 
Chicago,  Illinois,  offered  the  following  prayer : 

In  the  name  of  the  Father  and  the  Son  and  the  Holy  Ghost.  Amen. 
Almighty,  Eternal  and  All-wise  God,  direct  all  our  actions  by  Thy  holy 
inspiration,  so  that  every  prayer  and  every  work  of  ours  may  always  begin 
from  Thee  and  by  Thee  be  happily  ended.  Through  Jesus  Christ  our 
Lord  Who  taught  us  to  pray:  Our  Father  Who  art  in  heaven,  hallowed 
be  Thy  name.  Thy  kingdom  come.  Thy  will  be  done  on  earth  as  it  is  in 
heaven.  Give  us  this  day  our  daily  bread  and  forgive  us  our  trespasses 
as  we  forgive  those  who  trespass  against  us.  And  lead  us  not  into 
temptation  but  deliver  us  from  evil.  Amen.  In  the  name  of  the  Father 
and  the  Son  and  the  Holy  Ghost.  Amen. 

CALL  FOR  THE  CONVENTION. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Secretary  of  the  Republican 
National  Committee  will  read  the  call  for  the  Convention. 

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30  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 

MR.  WILLIAM  HAYWARD,  of  New  York,  Secretary  of  the  Republican 
National  Committee,  read  the  call  as  follows : 

OFFICIAL  CALL  FOR  THE  REPUBLICAN  NATIONAL  CONVENTION  TO  BE  HELD  AT 
CHICAGO,  ILLINOIS,  JUNE  18,  1912. 

To  the  Republican  Electors  of  the  United  States: 

In  accordance  with  established  custom  and  in  obedience  to  instruc- 
tions of  the  Republican  National  Convention  of  1908,  the  Republican 
National  Committee  now  directs  that  a  National  Convention  of  delegated 
representatives  of  the  Republican  Party  be  held  in  the  City  of  Chicago, 
in  the  State  of  Illinois,  at  twelve  o'clock  noon,  on  Tuesday,  the  18th  day 
of  June,  1912,  for  the  purpose  of  nominating  candidates  for  President 
and  Vice-President,  to  be  voted  for  at  the  Presidential  Election  on  Tues- 
day, November  5,  1912,  and  for  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as 
may  properly  come  before  it. 

The  Republican  electors  of  the  several  States  and  Territories,  includ- 
ing the  District  of  Columbia,  Alaska,  Porto  Rico  and  the  Philippine 
Islands,  and  all  other  electors  without  regard  to  past  political  affiliation, 
who  believe  in  the  principles  of  the  Republican  Party  and  endorse  its 
policies,  are  cordially  invited  to  unite  under  this  call  in  the  selection  of 
delegates  to  said  Convention.  Said  National  Convention  shall  consist  of 
four  delegates-at-large  from  each  State,  and  two  delegates-at-large  for 
each  representative-at-large  in  the  Congress,  two  delegates  from  each 
Congressional  District,  six  delegates  from  each  of  the  Territories,  and 
two  delegates  each  from  the  District  of  Columbia,  Alaska,  Porto  Rico  and 
the  Philippine  Islands.  For  each  delegate  elected  to  this  Convention  an 
alternate  delegate  shall  be  chosen  who  shall  serve  in  case  of  the  absence 
of  his  principal. 

The  delegates-at-large  and  their  alternates  shall  be  elected  by  popular 
State  and  Territorial  Conventions  called  by  the  Republican  State  or 
Territorial  Committee,  of  which  at  least  thirty  days'  notice  shall  have  been 
published  in  some  newspaper  or  newspapers  of  general  circulation  in 
the  respective  State  or  Territory. 

The  Congressional  District  delegates  shall  be  elected  by  conventions 
called  by  the  Republican  Congressional  Committee  of  each  district,  of  which 
at  least  thirty  days'  notice  shall  have  been  published  in  some  newspaper  or 
newspapers  of  general  circulation  in  the  District;  provided  that  in  any  Con- 
gressional District  where  there  is  no  Republican  Congressional  Com- 
mittee, the  Republican  State  Committee  in  issuing  said  call  and  making 
said  publication ;  and,  provided  that  delegates  or  their  alternates  shall  be 
deemed  ineligible  to  participate  in  State  or  District  or  Territorial  Con- 
vention who  were  elected  prior  to  the  date  of  the  adoption  of  this  call; 
and,  provided  that  delegates  and  alternates,  both  from  the  State  at  large 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  31 

and  from  each  Congressional  District  may  be  elected  in  conformity  with 
the  laws  of  the  State  in  which  the  election  occurs  if  the  State  Committee 
or  any  such  Congressional  Committee  so  direct;  but,  provided  further 
that  in  no  State  shall  an  election  be  so  held  as  to  prevent  the  delegates 
from  any  Congressional  District  and  their  alternates  being  selected  by 
the  Republican  electors  of  that  District. 

The  election  of  delegates  from  the  District  of  Columbia  shall  be 
held  under  the  direction  and  supervision  of  an  Election  Board  composed 
of  Messrs.  Leonard  P.  Bradshaw,  John  Lewis  Smith  and  Andrew  J. 
Thomas,  of  the  District  of  Columbia.  This  Board  shall  have  authority 
to  fix  the  date  of  said  election,  subject  to  prior  provision  herein,  and  to 
arrange  all  details  incidental  thereto ;  and  shall  provide  for  a  registration 
of  the  votes  cast,  such  registration  to  include  the  name  and  residence  of 
each  voter. 

The  delegates  from  the  Territories  and  Alaska  shall  be  selected  in 
the  manner  of  electing  delegates-at-large  from  the  States  as  provided 
herein. 

The  delegates  from  Porto  Rico  and  the  Philippine  Islands  shall  be 
elected  in  conformity  with  certain  rules  and  regulations  adopted  by  this 
Committee,  copies  of  which  are  to  be  furnished  to  the  Governing  Com- 
mittee of  the  Republican  Party  in  Porto  Rico  and  the  Philippine  Islands. 

All  delegates  shall  be  elected  not  earlier  than  thirty  days  after  the 
date  of  this  call  and  not  later  than  thirty  days  before  the  date  of  the 
meeting  of  the  Republican  National  Convention,  for  which  this  call  is 
issued,  unless  otherwise  provided  by  the  laws  of  a  State. 

The  credentials  of  each  delegate  and  alternate  must  be  forwarded  to 
the  Secretary  of  the  Republican  National  Committee  at  Chicago,  Illinois, 
at  least  twenty  days  before  the  date  fixed  for  the  meeting  of  the  Con- 
vention, for  use  in  making  up  its  temporary  roll.  Where  more  than  the 
authorized  number  of  delegates  are  reported  to  the  Secretary  of  the 
National  Committee  a  contest  shall  be  deemed  to  exist,  and  the  Secretary 
shall  notify  the  several  delegates  so  reported  and  shall  submit  all  such 
credentials  and  claims  to  the  whole  Committee  for  decision  as  to  which 
delegates  reported  shall  be  placed  on  the  temporary  roll  of  the  Con- 
vention. 

All  notices  of  contest  shall  be  submitted  in  writing  accompanied  by 
printed  statement  setting  forth  the  ground  of  contest  which  must  be 
filed  with  the  Secretary  of  the  Committee  twenty  days  prior  to  the  meet- 
ing of  the  National  Convention. 

In  promulgating  this  call  the  Secretary  of  the  Republican  National 
Committee  is  directed  to  send  a  copy  of  it  to  the  member  of  the  National 
Committee  of  each  State,  and  enclose  therewith  a  copy  of  the  call  for 
the  Chairman  and  Secretary  of  the  State  Executive  Committee  to  be 


32  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

forwarded  to  said  Chairman  and  Secretary  by  the  member  of  the  National 
Committee. 

JOHN  F.  HILL, 

Chairman. 
WILLIAM  HAYWARD,  Secretary, 

Washington,  D.  C,  December  12,  1911. 

TEMPORARY  ROLL. 

MR.  HERBERT  S.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  rise  to  a 
question  of  information,  and  that  is  whether  or  not  the  National  Com- 
mittee has  prepared  a  list  of  delegates  and  alternates  claiming  seats  in 
this  Convention,  and  has  placed  the  same  in  the  hands  of  its  Secretary  for 
the  consideration  of  the  convention  as  its  temporary  roll? 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  make  the  point 
of  order  that  no  business  of  any  character  is  in  order  until  after  the 
Convention  shall  have  been  properly  organized. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Chairman  of  the  Republican 
National  Committee  will  state  to  Governor  Hadley  that  a  temporary  roll 
is  in  the  hands  of  the  Chair.  The  Chairman  of  the  Committee,  however, 
is  inclined  to  rule  that  the  point  of  order  raised  by  the  gentleman  from 
Indiana  is  well  taken,  but  he  is  willing  to  hear  Governor  Hadley  if  he 
wishes  to  present  reasons;  but  the  time  for  discussion  will  be  limited  to 
a  reasonable  length. 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — Mr  Chairman,  I  rose  to  ask  the  Chair  a 
question  of  information  preliminary  to  a  motion.  Until  the  information 
requested  was  communicated,  there  was  nothing  against  which  to  make  a 
point  of  order. 

I  move  that  the  list  of  delegates  prepared  by  the  National  Committee 
and  placed  in  the  hands  of  its  Secretary,  known  as  the  temporary  roll, 
be  amended  in  the  following  particulars :  That  the  names  of  the  dele- 
gates upon  List  Xo.  1,  which  I  now  hand  to  the  Secretary,  be  removed 
from  the  list  of  delegates  known  as  the  temporary  roll,  and  that  the 
delegates  whose  names  appear  on  List  No.  2  be  substituted  therefor,  and 
that  the  temporary  roll  or  list  of  delegates  when  thus  amended  consti- 
tute the  temporary  roll  of  this  Convention  for  the  transaction  of  its 
business. 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  renew  my  point  of  order  that 
the  motion  of  the  Governor  of  Missouri  is  at  this  time  out  of  order,  and 
that  all  business  of  every  character  is  out  of  order  in  this  Convention 
until  after  proper  organization. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  point  of  order  seems  to  the 
Chairman  of  the  National  Committee  to  be  well  taken,  but  desiring  not  to 
be  arbitrary  in  his  ruling,  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  will  hear  the 


TAMES    ?,.    REYNOLDS,    of    Massachusetts. 
Secretary  of  the   Republican   National  Committee,    i 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  33 

I 

reasons  why,  in  the  judgment  of  the  Governor  of  Missouri,  his  motion  is 
in  order;  and  if  he  will  speak  to  that  question  the  Chair  will  accord  him 
and  his  representatives  and  those  on  the  other  side  of  the  question  not  to 
exceed  twenty  minutes  each. 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  Con- 
vention, I  have  presented  for  the  consideration  of  the  Chairman  of 
the  National  Committee  and  of  this  Convention  a  motion  to  amend  the 
list  of  delegates  known  as  the  temporary  roll  which  has  been  prepared 
by  the  National  Committee  and  placed  in  the  hands  of  its  Secretary  for 
the  consideration  of  this  Convention. 

The  Chair  has  stated  that  in  his  opinion  the  point  of  order  that  that 
motion  is  out  of  order  is  well  taken ;  but  following  the  example  of  that 
illustrious  leader  of  the  Republican  Party,  William  McKinley,  who  pre- 
sided over  the  Republican  Convention  of  1892,  who,  upon  a  question  of 
order  being  raised  not  only  invited  debate  but  asked  the  judgment  of 
some  of  the  leading  members  of  that  Convention,  the  Chairman  of  the 
National  Committee,  who  now  presides,  has  asked  that  a  brief  statement 
be  made  by  those  supporting  the  amendment  offered  by  myself  and  by 
those  opposing  it. 

It  is  in  response  to  that  request,  and  with  full  regard  for  the  re- 
sponsibilities of  this  situation,  and  the  importance  of  this  decision,  that  I 
now  offer  to  the  Chairman  and  to  the  consideration  of  this  Convention  a 
statement  of  the  reasons  why,  in  my  opinion,  my  motion  should  prevail ; 
because  in  the  last  analysis  the  final  determination  of  this  question  must 
come  to  this  Convention.  (Applause.) 

I  assert  that  the  question  now  presented  is  whether  the  National 
Committee  of  the  Republican  Party  has  absolute  power  to  prepare  a  list 
of  delegates,  or  temporary  roll,  which  can  be  changed  by  this  Convention 
only  through  the  report  of  a  Committee  on  Credentials  and  the  adoption 
or  rejection  of  the  report  of  that  committee,  or  whether  the  list  of  dele- 
gates prepared  by  the  National  Committee  is  in  the  nature  of  a  recom- 
mendation to  those  upon  that  list  that  they  shall  adopt  it  as  the  basis 
of  the  organization  of  a  Convention. 

Were  this  question  simply  one  of  principle  I  would  have  no  doubf 
as  to  what  the  decision  should  be ;  because  upon  a  question  of  principle, 
if  it  is  in  the  power  of  the  37  men  to  say  who  shall  constitute  the  majority 
of  a  convention,  then  we  have  ceased  to  recognize  the  principle  of  repre- 
sentative government  in  this  country  in  the  conduct  of  the  Republican 
Party.  (Applause.) 

We  have  but  one  form  of  government  in  this  country,  and  that  is; 
government  by  political  parties,  and  if  the  decisions  of  parties  in  con- 
vention can  be  finally  controlled  by  those  who  make  up  the  temporary 
roll,  then  we  have  established  within  a  political  organization  a  political' 
oligarchy  with  power  to  make  candidates  and  to  defeat  candidates;  with 


34  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

power  to  pass  laws  and  to  veto  laws.  I  am,  however,  not  only  abundantly 
supported  by  principle,  but  also  by  precedent. 

In  1864,  when  the  Republican  Convention  assembled,  there  was  pre- 
sented to  it  the  same  question  in  principle  that  is  now  presented  to  this 
Convention  for  consideration.  No  temporary  roll  had  been  prepared  by 
the  National  Committee,  and  the  Convention  took  upon  itself  the  power 
to  prepare  a  temporary  roll,  adopting  the  rule  that  in  States  where  there 
were  contests  as  to  which  delegation  constituted  the  legal  delegation,  that 
delegation  should  stand  aside  until  the  Convention  had  organized  and 
passed  upon  the  question.  (Applause.) 

Again  in  1884  the  question  came  before  a  Republican  National  Con- 
vention as  to  whether  the  action  of  its  National  Committee  in  recom- 
mending a  Temporary  Chairman  was  to  be  considered  the  selection  of  a 
Temporary  Chairman,  or  was  to  be  considered  as  a  question  to  be  passed 
upon  by  the  Convention  itself. 

The  point  of  order  was  raised  that  for  forty  years  the  power  had 
been  given  to  the  National  Committee  to  select  the  Temporary  Chairman 
of  a  Republican  Convention,  but  the  Convention,  in  its  own  right  to 
.conduct  its  own  business  in  its  own  way,  decided  that  that  precedent,  if  it 
was  a  precedent,  should  no  longer  be  followed,  but  that  the  principle 
should  be  recognized  that  the  National  Committee  was  only  the  servant 
and  not  the  master  of  the  Republican  Party.  (Applause.) 

Mind  you,  this  question  must  in  its  final  analysis  be  decided  upon 
one  of  two  propositions :  Either  the  National  Committee  has  the  power 
to  prepare  a  temporary  roll,  subject  to  change  only  by  the  action  of  a 
Committee  on  Credentials,  or  it  is  subject  to  change  at  any  time  by  those 
upon  that  roll  who  are  thus  recommended  to  form  themselves  into  a  con- 
vention. 

In  1880  this  question  came  expressly  before  the  National  Convention 
over  which  George  F.  Hoar,  of  Massachusetts,  was  then  presiding.  A 
motion  was  made  to  amend  the  temporary  roll  of  the  Convention  by  sub- 
stituting the  names  of  a  delegation  from  the  Territory  of  Utah  in  place 
of  the  names  of  the  delegates  who  were  found  upon  that  list;  and  in  the 
debate  which  ensued  upon  that  question,  Roscoe  Conkling,  of  the  State 
of  New  York,  rose  and  asked  Chairman  Hoar  the  following  question : 

"MR.  CONKLING. — Will  the  Chair  allow  me  to  say  a  word?  I  inquire 
of  the  Chair  whether  it  is  in  order  for  me  to  amend  the  motion  by 
adding  as  well  the  State  of  Louisiana." 

And  that  great  man  from  the  great  State  of  Massachusetts,  who  for 
so  many  years  graced  the  councils  of  the  United  States  Senate  with  his 
wisdom  and  his  learning,  made  this  answer,  which  you  ought  to  make 
to-day,  when  he  said : 

"Undoubtedly." 

That  is,  "undoubtedly"  the  motion  is  in  order.     (Applause.) 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  35 

So  I  offer  to  you  to-day,  Mr.  Chairman,  the  precedent  of  the  Con- 
vention of  .1864  that  nominated  for  the  second  time  Abraham  Lincoln 
as  the  candidate  of  the  Republican  party.  (Applause.) 

I  offer  to  you  in  support  of  that  action  the  statement  of  Senator 
Hoar  that  undoubtedly  a  motion  to  amend  a  temporary  roll  was  a 
motion  that  the  Convention  should  consider  and  pass  upon.  But  con- 
cede the  proposition  advanced  by  the  opposition  that  this  question  has 
never  arisen  before  and  that  upon  it  there  is  no  precedent.  Every  prece- 
dent of  law  or  custom  must  have  a  beginning,  and  no  precedent  will 
ever  be  recognized  by  posterity  unless  that  question  when  it  first  arises  is 
determined  in  accordance  with  eternal  principles  of  right  and  wrong. 

I  say  to  you,  Mr.  Chairman,  that  this  is  to  my  mind  more  a  question 
of  principle  than  of  precedent.  We  cannot  here  in  this  Convention 
close  our  ears  to  what  the  American  people  are  saying  to-day.  (Ap- 
plause.) The  integrity  of  this  roll  has  been  challenged  by  fifteen  mem- 
bers of  the  National  Committee  whose  signatures  I  have  here  in  my 
pocket,  who  say  that  seventy-two  names  have  been  placed  upon  that  roll 
of  delegates,  not  honestly  elected,  in  place  of  the  names  of  seventy-two 
delegates  who  have  been  elected  by  the  honest  votes  of  the  Republican 
voters  in  the  different  States  and  Congressional  districts. 

As  long  as  we  do  not  fairly  meet,  and  frankly  discuss,  and  honestly 
decide  this  question,  any  man  who  goes  out  from  this  Convention  with 
a  nomination  secured  by  the  votes  of  those  men  will  bear  a  tainted  nom- 
ination, and  will  neither  deserve  nor  receive  the  support  of  the  Ameri- 
can people. 

I  do  not  say  to  you  that  all  these  charges  are  true.  I  sat  in  some  of 
the  sessions  of  the  National  Committee,  and  in  my  judgment  some  of  the 
charges  are  true,  but  whether  true  or  false,  let  us  meet  them  here  and 
now.  Let  us  hear  these  fifteen  members  of  the  National  Committee  who 
say  that  delegates  are  sitting  upon  the  floor  of  this  Convention  without 
any  honest  title  to  their  seats ;  let  us  hear  what  they  have  to  say  in  sup- 
port of  these  charges,  and  then  let  the  37  members  of  the  National  Com- 
mittee who  are  responsible  for  that  roll  be  heard  in  reply.  (Applause.) 
You  cannot  settle  a  question  of  fundamental  honesty,  fair  play,  by  dis- 
regarding it.  You  cannot  settle  a  question  affecting  not  only  our  welfare 
but  the  history  of  the  American  people,  by  raising  the  point  of  order  that 
that  question  is  not  properly  before  the  Convention.  I  do  not  say  that 
your  judgment  will  be  that  my  amendment  should  be  sustained.  That  is 
for  those  who  have  a  right  to  pass  upon  the  question  to  answer.  But  I 
say  to  you  that  just  so  certainly  as  you  decline  to  answer  that  question, 
will  the  American  people  reach  the  conclusion  that  you  have  failed  to  con- 
sider and  answer  it  because  you  did  not  wish  to  know  the  facts  and  to 
decide  it  in  the  way  it  ought  to  be  finally  settled.  We  contend  that  this 
Convention  should  not  proceed  with  the  transaction  of  any  business  until 


36  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE 

it  either  disproves  the  charges  of  fraud  and  dishonesty  that  have  been 
made  against  this  roll  of  delegates,  or  until  it  sustains  those  charges,  and 
purges  the  roll  of  this  Convention  of  the  names  which  fifteen  high-minded 
and  honorable  men  have  stated  do  not  belong  there  at  all.  (Applause.) 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee will  hear  Governor  Fort  of  New  Jersey. 

MR.  JOHN  FRANKLIN  FORT,  of  New  Jersey. — Mr.  Chairman,  and  gen- 
tlemen of  the  Convention,  there  has  never  come  before  a  great  National 
Convention  of  this  wonderful  party  of  ours  a  question  of  more  vital 
importance  to  the  National  Convention,  and  beyond  that  to  the  people  of 
the  country,  than  the  issue  which  you  are  now  called  upon  to  determine. 

In  1884  a  controversy  arose  as  to  whether  it  was  within  the  power 
of  the  Convention  as  a  voluntary  association  to  determine  upon  questions 
of  the  roll  before  votes  should  proceed  upon  it,  and  in  deciding  that 
question  the  Chairman  of  the  National  Committee,  Mr.  Sabin,  quoted  from 
the  great  Senator  from  Massachusetts,  whose  name  has  been  mentioned, 
as  follows : 

"The  Chair  supposes  that  in  the  absence  of  any  rules  the  method  of 
taking  the  question  must  rest  in  the  sound  discretion  of  the  Chair,  sub- 
ject, of  course,  to  the  order  of  the  Convention." 

Mr.  Sabin,  as  Chairman,  then  proceeded :  "The  Chair  would  state 
that  this  is  emphatically  a  convention  of  the  people,  and  that  every  citizen 
representing  a  seat  on  this  floor  has  the  undoubted  right  to  a  free  expres- 
sion of  his  opinion  and  a  right  to  have  that  expression  recorded." 

The  Chair  has  ruled  that  the  motion  of  Governor  Hadley  that  the 
roll  be  amended  is  out  of  order.  From  that  Governor  Hadley  has  taken 
this  appeal.  The  vote  will  come  to  you  on  the  appeal,  shall  the  decision 
of  the  Chair  stand  as  the  judgment  of  the  Convention?  On  that  question 
every  man  in  this  Convention  should  follow  the  precedent  of  1884.  You 
are  making  history  to-day.  You  are  binding  the  future  by  a  precedent 
to-day.  Every  man  in  this  Convention,  whomsoever  he  may  be,  should 
vote  that  the  Convention  itself  has  the  power  to  determine  whether  or 
not  the  roll  presented  to  the  Convention  is  such  a  roll  as  the  Convention 
itself  will  adopt. 

Now  what  is  this  situation?  Governor  Hadley  has  cited  to  you  a 
number  of  cases.  I  have  them  on  this  brief.  The  same  gentlemen,  Mc- 
Kinley  and  Hoar  and  Thurston  and  Conkling  and  Chauncey  M.  Depew, 
in  Conventions  in  the  past,  have  stood  for  the  principle  of  the  right  of 
the  delegates  to  determine  in  a  preliminary  way  all  the  questions  that  are 
now  before  you.  Shall  we  here  to-day  have  in  this  Convention  a  scene 
that  shall  repeat  the  proceedings  of  the  National  Committee  which  have 
been  going  on  for  the  last  week  in  the  city  of  Chicago?  (Cries  of  "No!") 
Now,  gentlemen,  let  us  determine  first  before  we  take  action  because  if 
we  take  action  it  will  be  too  late.  (Laughter.)  I  stand  by  that  statement. 


1IOX.   GEORGK  R.   SHELDOX.  of  Xew  York. 
Treasurer  of   Republican   Xational   Committee. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  37 

(Laughter.)  These  gentlemen  understand  perfectly  well  what  I  meant. 
They  know.  I  did  not  mean  the  same  thing  they  meant  What  I  meant 
was  this :  that  it  will  then  be  too  late  to  purge  the  delegates  who  are  here 
of  the  fraud  that  is  in  them.  That  is  what  I  meant. 

I  appeal  to  this  Convention  now  to  assert  its  manhood,  to  assert  its 
right  in  the  name  of  the  American  people  to  represent  the  people  of  the 
States  of  the  Union,  and  determine  this  question  for  itself  as  to  whether 
this  roll  shall  or  shall  not  be  now  purged  of  the  fraud  which  every  man  in 
this  nation  believes  there  is  in  it. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  yield  ten  minutes  of  my 
time  to  Congressman  Sereno  E.  Payne,  of  New  York. 

MR.  SERENO  E.  PAYNE,  of  New  York. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen 
of  the  Convention :  This  is  a  question  of  order  and  orderly  proceeding  in 
this  Convention  on  the  one  hand,  and  of  possible  chaos  on  the  other. 
The  delegates  have  assembled,  but  they  cannot  do  business  without  an 
organization.  The  first  Convention  of  the  Republican  party  met  without 
a  committee,  with  nothing  but  a  list  of  delegates.  It  was  not  a  large 
Convention.  They  organized  without  a  fight.  No  one  wanted  the  nom- 
ination, and  they  designated  that  gallant  pathfinder  of  the  West,  John  C. 
Fremont,  as  their  candidate.  In  1860  they  met  with  a  Committee.  They 
organized  the  Convention.  This  Committee  made  up  the  temporary  roll, 
selecting  from  the  list  of  delegates  sent  up  those  who  were  chosen,  having 
carefully  examined  the  contests  that  were  made ;  and  that  has  been  the 
history  of  the  Republican  party  from  that  day  to  this.  The  very  prece- 
dent cited  by  the  Governor  of  Missouri  in  quoting  Senator  Hoar  shows 
that  the  Senator  was  Chairman  of  the  Convention  when  he  made  that 
ruling.  So  the  Convention  had  been  organized.  How  are  you  going  to 
select  from  the  list  of  delegates  those  who  are  entitled  to  seats  in  the 
Convention?  Suppose  this  motion  is  put.  Who  will  vote  on  the  question — 
those  on  the  list  made  up  according  to  the  usual  manner  by  the  National 
Committee,  or  those  on  the  list  made  up  by  the  gentleman  from  Missouri? 

MR.  ZIBA  T.  MOORE,  of  Pennsylvania. — Those  on  the  list  made  up  by 
all  the  States. 

MR.  PAYNE,  of  New  York. — You  beg  the  question.  You  decide  noth- 
ing. You  run  right  into  chaos  at  once. 

MR.  MOORE,  of  Pennsylvania. — We  are  in  chaos  now. 

MR.  PAYNE,  of  New  York. — You  must  have  a  temporary  organization, 
and  when  you  get  the  temporary  organization  the  committees  are  appoint- 
ed, how?  A  member  from  each  State,  selected  by  the  delegates  from 
each  State  and  Territory,  compose  a  Committee  on  Credentials,  one  from 
each  State  and  Territory  selected  by  the  delegates,  not  by  the  Tem- 
porary Chairman.  So  with  the  Platform  Committee  and  every  other  com- 
mittee appointed  by  the  Convention.  You  start  in  that  way  in  an  orderly 
manner.  Then  the  contests  come  before  the  Convention.  They  can  be 


38  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

debated  fully  at  the  will  of  the  Convention  in  an  orderly  way,  and  a 
vote  taken  upon  them  in  an  orderly  way.  There  is  no  other  way  in 
which  a  Convention  like  this  can  assemble  and  organize.  Every  one  of 
you  knows  that  in  your  conventions  at  home — State  and  county  conven- 
tions— a  similar  organization  is  had.  It  has  been  the  rule  of  the  Repub- 
lican party,  and  it  is  the  only  rule  under  representative  government  that 
can  be  adopted. 

Mr.  Chairman,  I  am  glad  to  know  that  the  Republican  party  has 
always  stood  in  favor  of  order  and  against  chaos,  and  I  am  opposed  to 
going  into  the  chaos  business  at  this  time  in  the  organization  of  the 
Convention.  (Applause.) 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the 
Convention :  You  have  listened  with  patience  to  the  argument  of  my 
friend,  Governor  Hadley,  of  Missouri.  I  ask  you  to  accord  to  me  the 
same  degree  of  fairness  and  the  same  degree  of  patience  you  have  so 
kindly  accorded  him,  while  I  present  my  views  on  this  proposition. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  what  is  the  question  before  us?  Gov- 
ernor Hadley  has  made  a  motion  to  change  the  temporary  roll  as  sup- 
plied to  the  Convention  by  the  National  Committee.  Our  contention  is 
that  at  this  time,  and  until  after  this  Convention  shall  have  been  regu- 
larly organized  under  customary  parliamentary  procedure,  no  business  is 
in  order,  because  there  is  no  Convention  at  this  time,  no  Presiding  Officer, 
and  no  person  duly  accredited  to  whom  an  appeal  can  be  made.  Listen 
to  me  while  I  reason  with  you.  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  first  let 
me  call  attention  to  the  precedent  cited  by  my  friend,  Governor  Hadley, 
and  my  other  friend,  Governor  Fort.  Our  friends  say  that  principle  pre- 
cedes precedent,  and  that  therefore  questions  of  right  and  wrong  cannot 
be  decided  upon  methods  of  procedure ;  and  in  the  third  instance  they 
cite  precedents.  Why?  Because  in  a  Republican  Convention  you  cannot 
escape  from  the  idea  of  orderly  procedure  of  events. 

What  about  the  precedent  cited  by  my  friend,  Governor  Hadley?  He 
said  that  in  1864  they  permitted  the  making  of  the  roll  by  the  Convention. 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — In  1884. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — You  said  1864.  Governor. 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — That  was  when  the  Convention 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — Precisely;  that  was  when  the  Convention 
itself  made  its  temporary  roll,  because  there  was  no  National  Republican 
Committee  in  existence.  (Applause.)  Gentlemen,  please  do  not  applaud, 
out  kindly  listen  to  me.  1  am  trying  to  address  your  judgment  and  not 
your  passions ;  your  reason  a"H  not  vour  sentiment. 

What  is  the  rule?  Shall  I  quote  to  you  what  the  Presiding  Officer  of 
the  1864  Convention  said?  I  do  not  think  I  need  to  do  so,  because  it  is 
all  sufficient  when  I  say  that  there  was  no  National  Committee  in  1864, 
and  therefore  there  was  no  roll  furnished  such  as  we  here  have. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  39 

Gentlemen,  what  about  the  precedent  of  1880,  cited  by  Governor 
Hadley  and  by  Governor  Fort?  The  precedent  of  1880  is  in  support  of 
our  contention.  Why?  Because  the  decision  made  by  Senator  Hoar,  that 
masterful  parliamentarian  who  presided  over  that  body,  was  not  made 
until  after  he  had  been  elected  Chairman  of  the  Convention. 

In  1896,  in  the  Convention  that  nominated  William  McKinley  for  the 
Presidency  of  the  Republic,  my  friend  from  New  Jersey,  Governor  Fort, 
was  present,  and  he  made  a  motion  that  the  temporary  roll  furnished  to 
the  National  Convention  by  the  National  Committee  be  made  the  per- 
manent roll,  and  on  that  he  demanded  the  previous  question,  so  as  to  shut 
off  all  discussion. 

Now,  gentlemen,  what  is  the  situation  that  confronts  us?  In  other 
words,  what  is  the  relation  of  the  National  Committee  to  a  National 
Convention?  The  National  Committee  is  no  part  of  the  National  Con- 
vention. It  is  not  the  creature  of  this  National  Convention.  It  is  not 
the  agent,  it  is  not  the  instrument  of  the  National  Convention. 

What  does  the  National  Committee  do?  Since  1868  it  has  always 
made  the  temporary  roll  of  the  Convention.  Why?  Because  somebody 
must  say  who  shall  constitute  the  temporary  roll  of  the  Convention. 
Otherwise  chaos  would  result  and  no  Convention  would  be  possible. 

Gentlemen,  here  is  the  situation :  The  National  Committee,  as  it  has 
always  done  since  1868,  has  furnished  a  temporary  roll  for  this  Conven- 
tion. The  National  Committee  Chairman,  Mr.  Rosewater,  simply  because 
of  his  position  as  such,  has  called  this  Convention  to  order.  He  has  no 
other  power.  He  is  not  the  Chairman  of  this  Convention  by  your  voice 
or  your  election.  He  is  here  simply  as  the  agent  of  the  National  Com- 
mittee for  the  purpose  of  calling  this  Convention  to  order  and  asking 
you  do  what?  To  elect  your  Temporary  Chairman;  for  all  that  he  can 
do  is  to  say  on  behalf  of  the  National  Committee :  "I  nominate  the  Hon. 
Elihu  Root  as  our  Temporary  Chairman."  He  can  then  say :  "Are 
there  other  nominations?"  in  order  that  the  personnel  of  this  Convention 
may  have  the  opportunity  of  selecting  their  own  Temporary  Presiding 
Officer  in  accordance  with  the  proceedings  of  Republican  Conventions 
from  1868  to  this  hour,  and  in  accordance  with  all  regular  parliamentary 
procedure  in  all  parliamentary  bodies. 

Now,  gentlemen,  that  is  the  question  at  issue  here.  If  Governor 
Hadley's  motion  is  agreed  to,  where  are  we?  This  Convention  then  pro- 
ceeds to  take  up  every  contested  case  before  we  have  organized  a  conven- 
tion, to  determine  upon  the  merits  of  the  controversy.  Is  there  one  of  us 
here  elected  by  a  Convention  in  which  there  was  not  a  Committee  on 
Credentials? 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — Will  the  gentleman  yield  for  a  question? 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — Is  there  a  man  here  who  was  elected  in 
a  Convention  in  which  there  was  not  a  Committee  on  Credentials?  If 


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40  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF  THE 

Governor  Hadley's  motion  obtains,  it  will  not  be  necessary  to  have  a 
Committee  on  Credentials  in  this  Convention  for  the  purpose  of  deter- 
mining these  questions. 

Gentlemen,  in  the  name  of  orderly  procedure,  in  the  name  of  prece- 
dents as  established  by  Republican  Conventions  for  more  than  forty  years, 
in  the  name  of  that  order  and  that  system  of  which  the  Republican  party 
proudly  boasts,  I  ask  you  to  sustain  the  ruling  of  Mr.  Rosewater,  and 
say  that  he  has  decided  rightly  on  this  proposition.  (Applause.) 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Convention  will  be  in  order. 
The  Chair  will  give  his  ruling. 

The  Chairman  of  the  Republican  National  Committee  wishes  to  say 
that  he  has  had  this  question  under  advisement  for  several  days  and  has 
had  advice  upon  it  from  many  distinguished  gentlemen  more  learned  in 
parliamentary  law  and  proceedings  than  is  the  Chairman  of  the  Repub- 
lican National  Committee.  He  is  greatly  indebted  to  these  gentlemen  for 
further  elucidating  the  question.  He  wishes  to  have  read  by  one  of  the 
reading  clerks  a  statement  which  bears  upon  the  proposition  as  it  appears 
to  the  chairman  of  this  committee,  and  he  will  then  give  his  ruling. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 

Reference  has  been  made  to  the  Republican  Convention  of  1864. 
When  it  had  assembled  it  was  found  that  there  was  no  roll  of  delegates. 
It  was  not  even  known  what  States  were  represented.  Mr.  Henry  J. 
Raymond,  of  New  York,  said : 

"We  are  here  now  simply  as  a  mass  meeting.  We  have  appointed  a 
temporary  Chairman  for  the  purpose  of  organizing  that  mass  meeting, 
and  converting  it  into  a  convention  of  delegates.  The  first  thing,  there- 
fore, to  be  done  is  to  decide  what  States  have  sent  delegates  here;  the 
next  thing  to  be  decided  is  what  delegates  they  have  sent;  and  the  third 
thing  to  be  decided  is  by  what  authority  do  those  delegates  come  from 
those  States  and  appear  here  as  their  representatives.  *  *  * 

"In  the  first  place,  we  have  no  credentials  before  this  body,  and  in 
the  next  place  we  have  no  delegates  officially  known  to  this  body,  from 
whom  to  make  up  that  committee.  The  first  thing  to  be  done,  it  strikes 
me,  is  to  call  the  list  of  States  belonging  to  this  Union,  and,  as  each 
State  is  called,  if  there  is  any  one  here  present  who  can  say  for  that 
State  that  she  has  a  delegation  here,  it  is  his  business  to  rise  and  say  so, 
and  to  present  to  the  Chair  the  credentials  on  which  that  delegation  claims 
seats." 

A  motion  of  Mr.  Simon  Cameron  to  that  effect  was  adopted.  The 
roll  (not  of  delegates,  for  there  was  none,  but  of  States)  was  called,  and 
the  names  of  delegates  were  presented. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Thaddeus  Stevens,  of  Pennsylvania,  all  the  con- 
tested cases  were  laid  over  until  the  credentials  shall  have  been  sent  to  a 
Committee  on  Credentials  and  reported  back.  (Page  187.) 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  41 

For  more  than  half  a  century  it  has  been  the  invariable  custom  that 
all  credentials  are  forwarded  to  the  National  Committee,  which  is  required 
to  make  up  a  roll  of  delegates  entitled  to  participate  in  the  organization 
of  the  Convention.  The  duty  of  the  National  Chairman  is  to  call  to 
order  the  delegates  named  on  that  roll  and  to  preside  only  until  they  have 
selected  their  own  temporary  presiding  officer.  Up  to  this  point  this  is 
not,  strictly  speaking,  a  Convention,  but  simply  an  assemblage  of  those 
under  the  rules  entitled  to  organize  a  Convention. 

In  bodies  such  as  this  it  is,  of  course,  proper  and  necessary  that 
investigation  and  inquiry  be  made  as  to  the  credentials  and  authority  of 
those  whose  names  may  appear  upon  the  roll  as  delegates,  but  in  accord- 
ance with  general  parliamentary  law  as  laid  down  in  Cushing's  Manual : 

"The  proper  time  for  this  investigation  is  after  the  temporary  and 
before  the  permanent  organization,  and  the  most  convenient  mode  of  con- 
ducting it  is  by  the  appointment  of  a  committee  to  receive  and  report  upon 
the  credentials  presented  by  those  who  claim  to  be  members." 

The  rules  of  the  Republican  party  are  in  entire  harmony  with  that 
general  parliamentary  usage.  They  specifically  require  that : 

"Twenty  days  before  the  day  set  for  the  meeting  of  the  National 
Convention  the  credentials  of  each  delegate  and  alternate  shall  be  for- 
warded to  the  Secretary  of  the  National  Committee  for  use  in  making  up 
the  temporary  roll  of  the  Convention.  Notices  of  contests  shall  be  for- 
warded in  the  same  manner  and  within  the  same  limits  of  time.  And 
when  the  Convention  shall  have  assembled  and  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials shall  have  been  appointed,  the  Secretary  of  the  National  Com- 
mittee shall  deliver  to  the  said  committee  on  credentials  all  credentials 
and  other  papers  forwarded  under  -this  rule." 

It  will  thus  be  seen  that  the  credentials  of  delegates  are  not  to  be 
delivered  to  this  unorganized  Convention,  but  when  the  Convention  shall 
have  been  organized  and  a  Committee  on  Credentials  appointed  then  the 
rule  requires  that  they  shall  be  delivered  to  said  committee  by  the  Secre- 
tary of  the  National  Committee 

It  is  not  within  the  province  of  this  unorganized  assemblage  *?•  pass 
upon  credentials,  and  indeed  there  are  no  credentials  before  it.  They  are 
in  the  custody  of  the  Secretary  of  the  National  Committee,  where  the 
rules  require  them  to  be  lodged  until  the  organization  of  the  Convention 
and  the  appointment  of  the  credentials  committee. 

Any  proposition,  therefore,  looking  to  the  investigation  of  credentials 
is  out  of  order  at  this  time,  before  an  organization  of  the  Convention. 
The  precedents  which  have  been  cited,  noticeably  that  of  1880,  occurred 
after  a  temporary  chairman  had  been  elected  and  the  Convention  organ- 
ized. J.  D.  Cameron,  of  Pennsylvania,  was  the  Chairman  of  the  National 
Committee  who  called  the  Convention  to  order.  The  rulings  referred  to 
were  made  by  George  F.  Hoar  after  his  election  as  Temporary  Chairman. 


42  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF  THE 

There  was  no  attempt  to  change  the  roll  until  a  Temporary  Chairman  had 
been  elected. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Chairman  of  the  National 
Committee  sustains  the  point  of  order  and  holds  that  the  proceedings  pro- 
posed by  Governor  Hadley's  resolution  are  out  of  order. 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — I  appeal  from  the  decision  of  the  Chair. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  the  appeal  on  the  table. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — Gentlemen,  under  the  ruling  of 
the  Chair  both  of  these  motions  are  out  of  order,  for  the  reason  that  the 
only  business  before  this  Convention  is  for  the  Chairman  of  the  National 
Committee  to  submit,  at  the  direction  of  the  Committee,  the  name  of  a 
gentleman  for  Temporary  Chairman. 

SELECTION  OF  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Chairman  of  the  Republican 
National  Committee,  by  the  direction  of  the  National  Committee  and  in 
accordance  with  the  rules  and  precedents,  has  the  honor  to  present  the 
name  of  Hon.  Elihu  Root,  a  delegate  from  the  State  of  New  York,  for 
your  temporary  chairman,  and  to  invite  other  nominations.  Are  there  any 
other  nominations? 

MR.  HENRY  F.  COCHEMS,  of  Wisconsin. — Mr.  Chairman,  do  I  under- 
stand that  a  nomination  has  been  made? 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — A  nomination  has  been  made. 
Mr.  Root  has  been  nominated. 

MR.  COCHEMS,  of  Wisconsin. — Mr.  Chairman,  as  an  individual  La  Fol- 
lette  delegate  from  the  State  of  Wisconsin 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — Does  the  gentleman  rise  to  make 
a  nomination? 

MR.  COCHEMS,  of  Wisconsin. — I  do. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Chair  recognizes  the  gentle- 
man from  Wisconsin. 

MR.  COCHEMS,  of  Wisconsin. — Mr.  Chairman,  delegates,  ladies  and 
gentlemen :  As  an  individual  delegate  from  the  State  of  Wisconsin,  as  a 
La  Follette  delegate  instructed  to  remain  with  him  throughout  this  Con- 
vention for  the  Presidential  nomination  as  a  progressive  Republican,  I 
desire  on  behalf  of  the  progressive  sentiment  of  this  nation,  of  ninety 
per  cent,  of  the  rank  and  file  of  the  common  people  of  this  Republic 
who  have  been  given  the  opportunity  to  express  their  preferences,  to  place 
in  nomination  a  man  whose  Republicanism  is  unquestioned,  a  man  whose 
face  is  toward  the  light,  a  man  whose  leadership  in  this  temporary  organ- 
ization would  have  no  .taint  or  suggestion  of  partiality.  I  present  the. 
name  of  the  brilliant,  the  able,  the  impartial  and  the  fearless  governor  of 
my  commonwealth,  Hon.  Francis  E.  McGovern,  of  Wisconsin.  (Applause.) 


1IOX.    KLIIIT    ROOT,   of   New   York, 
Chairman  of  the   Convention. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  43 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — Are  there  any  other  nomina- 
tions? 

MR.  W.  S.  LAUDER,  of  North  Dakota.— The  State  of  North  Dakota 
takes  pleasure  in  seconding  the  nomination  of  Governor  McGovern. 

MR.  JOB  E.  HEDGES,  of  New  York. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of 
the  Convention :  Following  the  suggestion  of  the  National  Committee, 
following  the  direction  of  the  delegation  from  the  State  of  New  York, 
following  at  the  same  time  my  own  good,  separate,  individual  judgment, 
without  any  knowledge  of  what  per  cent,  that  bears  to  the  entire  Repub- 
lican party,  I  second  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Elihu  Root.  (Applause.) 
It  is  with  a  reasonable  sense  of  diffidence,  now  that  almost  everybody  has 
had  a  chance  to  say  something  on  almost  every  topic,  that  I  rise  to 
second  the  nomination  as  Temporary  Chairman  of  this  Convention  of  a 
gentleman  who  represents  in  large  degree  the  Republican  party,  and  who 
has  had  some  experience  as  temporary  chairman  of  a  convention. 

Two  years  ago  in  the  State  of  New  York,  at  the  suggestion  of  one 
of  the  candidates  before  this  Convention,  Mr.  Root  became  Permanent 
Chairman  of  that  Convention.  Four  years  ago  in  the  State  of  New  York, 
at  the  direction  of  the  same  gentleman,  as  if  there  could  not  be  too  much 
of  Root,  he  was  made  Temporary  and  Permanent  Chairman  of  the  State 
Convention.  Having  observed  his  actions  at  that  time  and  knowing 
somewhat  of  him  through  personal  contact,  I  am  able  to  testify  that  we 
will  take  no  chance  if  we  have  him  for  Chairman.  (Applause.) 

This  seems  to  be  a  day  for  quoting  precedents.  This  seems  to  be  the 
day  when  every  man,  before  he  gives  his  own  idea,  finds  out  if  some  one 
else  had  thought  of  it  first.  And  in  order  to  get  the  real  judgment  on  the 
situation  I  have  looked  up  some  things  that  did  not  date  as  far  back  as 
1864.  In  order  to  have  the  matter  still  in  the  mind  of  mortal  man,  I  ara 
going  back  three  or  four  years  (laughter),  and  I  quote  the  authority  of  a 
gentleman  who  knows,  and  in  whose  judgment  I  believe.  I  quote  Mr 
Roosevelt  as  follows : 

"Elihu  Root  is  the  ablest  man  I  have  known  in  our  government 
service.  He  is  the  ablest  man  that  has  appeared  in  the  public  life  of  any 
country  in  any  position  in  my  time."  (Applause.) 

"Now  I  wished  to  secure  as  John's  Hay's  successor  the  man  whom  I 
regarded  as  of  all  the  men  in  the  country  that  one  best  fitted  to  be  such 
successor." 

A  DELEGATE. — Nobody  has  said  anything  against  Root. 

MR.  HEDGES. — As  everybody  cannot  talk  at  the  same  time,  and  as 
unlike  some  gentlemen  who  have  stood  upon  this  platform,  I  do  not 
pretend  to  be  endowed  with  the  sacred  gift  of  prophecy,  so  as  to  be  able 
to  tell  what  will  happen  after  something  else  has  been  done  first,  I  second 
the  nomination  of  the  man  whom  Theodore  Roosevelt  tells  me  is  the 
ablest  man  in  public  life.  (Applause;  and  cheers  for  Roosevelt.)  You 


44  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

need  not  hesitate  to  cheer  Roosevelt  in  my  presence.  I  cheered  him  seven 
years,  and  I  am  just  trying  to  take  a  day  off,  that  is  all.  (Laughter.)  I 
leave  Elihu  Root  with  you.  He  was  good  enough  for  Roosevelt,  and  he 
is  good  enough  for  me.  (Applause.) 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — Mr.  Chairman  and  Gentlemen  of  the 
Convention :  Following  the  example  of  the  eloquent  and  witty  speaker 
who  has  just  addressed  you,  I  shall  also  cite  to  you  some  eminent  au- 
thority. Four  years  ago,  and  particularly  eight  years  ago,  the  man  whose 
nomination  for  Temporary  Chairman  of  this  Convention  he  has  seconded, 
stated  to  those  assembled  there  that  he  at  whose  instance  and  in  whose 
behalf  I  speak  to-day  was  the  greatest  living  American  of  this  or  any 
other  age.  (Applause.)  He  stated  that  he  was  endowed  with  all  those 
qualities  of  courage  and  of  wisdom  that  made  him  not  only  a  wise  but  a 
brave  and  effective  leader  of  the  American  people.  Believing  that  this 
question  which  you  are  now  to  decide  has  in  it  more  than  the  choice 
between  individuals,  believing  that  the  decision  of  this  question  has  in  it 
something  of  principle  and  much  that  affects  the  future  character  and 
usefulness  and  success  of  the  Republican  party,  I  appear  before  you  at 
the  instance  and  the  reqeust,  and  as  one  instructed  not  only  by  inclina- 
tion but  by  the  voice  of  the  people  in  behalf  of  Theodore  Roosevelt  to 
second  the  nomination  of  Governor  McGovern.  (Applause.) 

MR.  HIRAM  W.  JOHNSON,  of  California. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentle- 
men of  the  Convention:  From  the  free  State  of  California  I  second  the 
nomination  of  Governor  McGovern,  of  Wisconsin,  and  in  seconding  his 
nomination  I  want  to  say  to  the  Convention  that  California  upon  the  roll 
call  will  cast  26  votes  for  McGovern.  (Applause.)  And  here  and  now  I 
serve  notice  in  behalf  of  the  State  of  California  that  in  this  Convention 
there  will  be  cast  26  votes  solidly  on  every  question  which  concerns  that 
State. 

The  gentleman  who  preceded  us  a  moment  ago  in  seconding  the 
nomination  of  the  distinguished  gentleman  from  New  York,  Mr.  Root, 
said  practically  and  substantially  that  he  took  no  chances  with  that  par- 
ticular Chairman.  We  say  to  you  that  this  Convention,  representing  the 
great  rank  and  file  of  the  Republican  party  of  this  nation,  takes  no 
chances  with  Governor  McGovern.  (Applause.) 

We  ask  all  of  you  who  believe  in  the  spirit  of  fair  play,  you  who 
believe  in  a  Presiding  Officer  who  will  deal  out  to  you  only  squareness, 
fairness,  and  Republican  doctrine,  to  unite,  for  Temporary  Chairman  of 
this  Convention  upon  the  Governor  of  the  State  of  Wisconsin,  a  man 
with  such  a  reputation  as  his,  a  partisan,  perhaps,  of  neither  of  the  dom- 
inant factions  in  this  Convention.  We  ask  that  you  all  unite  in  selecting 
Governor  McGovern  as  the  Temporary  Chairman  of  this  Convention. 
(Applause.)  I  deny  the  right — our  Republican  State  denies  the  right — the 
rank  and  file  of  the  Republican  party  of  this  nation  denies  the  right  of 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  45 

any  National  Committee  to  select  our  Temporary  Chairman  for  us,  in 
any  event.  We  deny  the  right  of  any  set  of  men,  repudiated  or  not  by 
their  particular  States ;  we  deny  the  right  of  any  set  of  men  to  Mexican- 
ize  the  Republican  party,  and  we  will  not  tolerate  it.  To  every  man  in  this 
Convention  who  comes  here  upon  the  theory  of  the  Republican  system, 
of  Republican  freedom,  of  Republican  fair  dealing,  we  appeal  in  behalf 
of  Governor  McGovern.  (Applause.) 

MR.  J.  E.  WOOD,  of  Kentucky. — Delegates  of  the  greatest  party  of  the 
greatest  country  upon  the  face  of  the  earth,  I  have  been  inspired  as  I 
listened  to  the  brilliant  eloquence  which  has  stirred  this  great  Convention. 
I  am  reminded  that  the  giants  of  intellect,  the  product  of  this  great  party, 
have,  by  their  wise,  safe,  sane  leadership,  led  the  party  for  fifty  years. 

I  am  reminded,  as  I  stand  in  this  distinguished  presence,  that  the  men 
who  make  up  the  National  Committee  and  the  men  who  have  shaped  the 
policy  of  the  party,  are  the  men  who  to-day  stand  before  the  world  as 
the  greatest  statesmen,  the  wisest  legislators  and  the  grandest  executives 
in  the  history  of  this  country.  (Applause.)  The  negro  of  this  country 
has  always  looked  to  the  Republican  party  as  the  safe,  wise  leader  of  all 
the  people.  He  has  believed  the  banner  of  Republicanism  to  be  the  morn- 
ing star  of  God,  leading  on  to  liberty,  and  to  progress,  and  to  security; 
and  I  shall  regret  the  day  when  anything  revolutionary,  anything  social- 
istic, anything  that  bespeaks  of  populism,  shall  be  called  the  Republican 
party. 

We  are  proud  of  the  history  which  this  party  has  made.  We  are 
proud  of  the  history  of  Lincoln,  and  of  Grant,  and  of  Garfield,  and  of 
McKinley;  and  we  are  glad  to  come  here  to-day  to  present  a  candidate 
for  Temporary  Chairman  who  has  .been  schooled  in  the  school  of  those 
great  men,  those  great  giants  like  Lincoln  and  McKinley. 

We  desire  to  second  the  nomination  of  Senator  Root  of  New  York. 
(Applause.)  We  second  his  nomination  because  the  people  throughout 
this  country  have  spoken  in  consonance  with  the  policy  for  which  he 
stands. 

The  imputation  has  been  made  that  the  negro  will  repudiate  his  in- 
structions. The  imputation  has  been  made  that  the  negro  is  a  traitor;  but 
I  stand  here  as  a  representative  of  my  race  to  say  to  you  that  the  negro 
is  loyal  and  true,  and  he  will  obey  the  instructions  of  his  constituency, 
and  will  cast  his  vote  for  Elihu  Root.  (Applause.) 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania.— Mr.  Chairman  and  Fellow 
Republicans  of  the  National  Convention :  I  am  instructed  by  65  votes  out 
of  the  76  in  the  Pennsylvania  delegation  to  second  the  nomination  of 
Governor  McGovern.  (Applause.) 

Now,  gentlemen,  the  Pennsylvania  delegation  is  the  result  of  new 
political  methods,  and,  of  course,  it  goes  without  saying  that  my  friends 
from  New  York  have  not  experienced  those  new  methods.  I  imagine  I 


46  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

can  say  with  perfect  safety  to  this  Convention  that  this  new  method, 
which  is  the  rule  of  the  people  through  direct  primaries,  has  resulted  in 
sending  to  this  Convention  a  delegation  the  like  of  which  has  not  come  to 
any  Republican  National  Convention  in  the  last  forty  years.  So  I  can  only 
suggest  to  my  friends  from  New  York  that  they  know  what  is  in  store 
for  them. 

MR.  F.  W.  HARTFORD,  of  New  Hampshire. — I  move  that  the  gentleman 
have  leave  to  print. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN. — I  want  to  say  this  to  you.  Pennsylvania  is  a 
progressive  State.  She  is  here  to  stay ;  and  when  we  get  through,  no 
matter  who  may  be  nominated  in  this  Convention,  no  matter  what  the 
results  of  the  election  may  be,  Pennsylvania  will  be  a  progressive  State. 
(Laughter  and  applause.)  And  her  example  will  be  as  far-reaching  as 
the  example  of  the  great  northwestern  and  western  States  has  been  to  us. 

MR.  WILLIAM  E.  ENGLISH,  of  Indiana. — Will  you  vote  for  the  nom- 
inee? 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN. — I  want  to  say  that  Pennsylvania  gladly  and 
cheerfully  follows  the  leadership  of  the  middle  commonwealth  of  this 
nation — Wisconsin — and  we  are  glad  to  have  the  opportunity,  not  alone 
to  second  the  nomination,  but  to  vote  for  its  governor;  and  I  want  to  say 
one  word  in  conclusion.  With  the  hearty  approval  of  the  65  delegates 
from  Pennsylvania  out  of  76 — and  we  are  the  strongest,  and  have  been 
for  forty  years,  the  strongest  Republican  State  in  this  nation — that  unless 
you  get  540  votes  that  are  untainted,  without  fraud,  for  your  candidate 
for  Chairman,  I  doubt  whether  my  constituents  in  Pennsylvania  will  ratify 
it.  I  do  not  want  you  to  understand  for  a  moment  that  I  am  notifying 
the  Convention  that  I  am  going  to  bolt;  but  I  want  to  read  to  you  the 
rule  made  by  the  last  National  Convention,  that  controls  the  National 
Committee.  That  rule  says : 

"Twenty  days  before  the  day  set  for  the  meeting  of  the  National 
Convention  the  credentials  of  each  delegate  and  alternate  shall  be  for- 
warded to  the  Secretary  of  the  National  Committee  for  use  in  making  up 
the  temporary  roll  of  the  Convention.  Notices  of  contests  shall  be  for- 
warded in  the  same  manner  and  within  the  same  limits  of  time.  And 
when  the  Convention  shall  have  assembled  and  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials shall  have  been  appointed,  the  Secretary  of  the  National  Com- 
mittee shall  deliver  to  the  said  committee  on  credentials  all  credentials 
and  other  papers  forwarded  under  this  rule." 

This  is  a  very  serious  proposition.  Every  Pennsylvanian  believes  that 
this  National  Committee  was  simply  a  committee  of  arrangements,  that  it 
had  no  business  to  strike  down  delegates  who  had  the  prima  facie  right 
to  seats.  Now,  gentlemen,  that  is  one  of  the  propositions  I  want  you  to 
think  of !  You  have  to  get  540  uncontested  votes  for  your  Temporary 
Chairman. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  47 

MR.  D.  LAWRENCE  GRONER,  of  Virginia.— Gentlemen  of  the  Conven- 
tion: On  behalf  of  the  State  of  Virginia,  from  which  I  come,  whose 
ancient  glories  made  her  matchless  among  the  States,  whose  devotion  to 
principle  made  her  the  Mecca  of  the  people  of  the  South,  and  whose  con- 
servatism and  love  of  constitutional  government  made  her  the  hope  of  the 
Republican  party  of  the  future,  I  second  the  nomination  of  Elihu  Root, 
of  New  York.  (Applause.) 

MR.  WILLIAM  SEYMOUR  EDWARDS,  of  West  Virginia. — Gentlemen  and 
fellow  delegates :  Give  me  your  ears.  Boys,  give  me  a  chance. 

In  behalf  of  the  great  State  of  West  Virginia,  which  has  cut  loose 
from  Democracy,  and  which  elects  Republican  electors,  the  only  Repub- 
lican State  in  Dixie,  I  second  the  nomination  of  Francis  E..  McGovern. 
(Applause.) 

MR.  FRANCIS  J.  HENEY,  of  California. — Mr.  Chairman  and  fellow 
delegates:  This  nation  is  confronting  one  of  the  most  momentous  pe- 
riods in  its  history.  The  question  which  comes  before  you  gentlemen  to- 
day is  not  limited  to  what  particular  individual  shall  preside  over  the 
Convention.  There  is  a  much  more  serious  question  involved,  that  goes 
to  the  very  foundation  of  republican  institutions. 

A  National  Committee  has  undertaken  to  prepare  a  roll  for  this 
Convention,  which  it  is  proposed  shall  bind  its  members  in  electing  a 
Temporary  Chairman.  If  it  stopped  there  there  would  be  no  particular 
harm  done;  but,  gentlemen,  do  you  not  realize  that  this  is  only  the  first 
step  in  the  proceedings?  It  means  further  that  they  can  seat  at  least  60 
of  the  men  whom  I  personally  know,  having  heard  the  evidence,  have  no 
more  right  to  sit  here  than  do  the  men  who  are  on  the  outside.  A  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States  will  have-  to  be  elected  by  the  22  States  which 
cast  their  electoral  vote  for  President  Roosevelt.  (Applause.)  You  will 
not  elect  a  President  of  the  United  States  by  the  votes  of  the  people  in 
the  Philippines,  or  in  Porto  Rico,  or  in  Alaska,  because  they  are  not  per- 
mitted to  vote.  (Disorder  in  the  hall.) 

Gentlemen,  this  reminds  me  of  some  of  the  conduct  of  the  National 
Committee,  led  by  big  Steve,  of  Colorado. 

MR.  HARTFORD,  of  New  Hampshire. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  rise  to  a  point 
of  order. 

MR.  HENEY,  of  California. — I  have  as  much  time  as  you  gentlemen 
have.  We  are  in  free  America,  not  in  Mexico.  (Applause.)  Led  by  big 
Steve  of  Colorado,  who  differs  from  Abe  Ruef  of  California  only  in  the 
fact  that  Abe  Ruef  was  in  the  penitentiary  last  week,  while  Big  Steve 
helped  to  make  this  temporary  roll,  thirty  members  out  of  fifty-two  of 
the  National  Committee  coming  from  Democratic  States  that  will  not 
give  the  Republican  nominee  a  single  electoral  vote  (applause)  and  from 
States  like  Pennsylvania,  which  have  repudiated  machine  rule  such  as  is 
being  attempted  here  to-day (Disorder  and  confusion  in  the  hall.) 


48  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF  THE 

Members  of  this  Convention Mr.  Chairman,  can  you  not  get  order? 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Convention  will  be  in  order. 

MR.  HENEY,  of  California. — Are  the  friends  of  Mr.  Taft  afraid  to 
listen  to  the  facts?  (Cries  of,  "Oh,  cut  it  out!") 

A  DELEGATE. — Tell  us  about  Big  Steve.    We  have  not  heard  about  him. 

MR.  HENEY,  of  California. — I  will  refer  you  to  Penrose  and  Murray 
Crane  for  information.  (Disorder  in  the  hall.) 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Convention  will  be  in  order. 
The  Chair  asks  the  delegates  to  give  attention  to  Mr.  Heney,  and  assures 
them  that  his  remarks  are  harmless. 

MR.  HENEY,  of  California. — Gentlemen  ci  the  Convention,  the  ques- 
tion  

A  DELEGATE. — Three  cheers  for  Heney.  (Cheers  and  confusion.) 

MR.  HENEY,  of  California. — Fellow  citizens,  you  may  as  well  hear  me 
out,  because  you  are  going  to  hear  me  if  it  takes  all  summer. 

A  DELEGATE. — We  will  not  wait  that  long. 

MR.  HENEY,  of  California. — The  question  involved  is  this :  Upon 
voting  for  a  Temporary  Chairman  it  is  proposed  that  a  majority  shall  be 
secured  for  Mr.  Root  by  using  the  roll  which  has  been  prepared  by  those 
thirty  members  of  the  National  Committee  who  do  not  represent  a  single 
Republican  electoral  vote  in  the  Union,  and  thereby  to  use  the  votes  of  at 
least  70  alleged  delegates  who  have  no  possible  right  upon  this  floor. 

Now,  gentlemen,  if  you  are  here  for  fair  play,  if  you  are  patriotic 
American  citizens,  just  keep  in  mind  the  fact  that  after  the  Temporary 
Chairman  is  chosen,  those  fraudulent  70  delegates  will  constitute  a  part  of 
the  Credentials  Committee.  Do  you  understand  that?  ("Yes!  Yes!") 
Let  me  make  myself  plain.  You  might  as  well  listen.  These  70  delegates 
have  been  so  selected  as  to  give  one  member  of  the  Credentials  Com- 
mittee to  each 

(At  this  point  the  speaker  was  again  interrupted  by  disorder  in  the 
hall.) 

The  SERGEANT-AT-ARMS. — I  am  directed  by  the  Chairman  to  announce 
that  unless  the  speaker  is  treated  with  respect,  those  offending  will  be 
ordered  removed  from  the  building.  (Applause.) 

MR.  HENEY,  of  California. — Now,  fellow  delegates,  I  repeat  that  those 
70  names  which  have  been  placed  upon  that  roll  under  the  leadership  of 
Big  Steve  of  Colorado,  Penrose  of  Pennsylvania,  and  Crane  of  Massa- 
chusetts, are  so  arranged  that  they  would  give  a  majority  of  the  Cre- 
dentials Committee  to  the  men  who  have  perpetrated  this  theft  of  dele- 
gates upon  the  American  people.  Therefore,  it  is  proposed  that  we,  who 
have  been  honestly  elected  by  an  overwhelming  majority  of  the  Repub- 
lican electors,  shall  submit  the  question  of  our  right  to  seats  in  this 
Convention  to  men  who  have  been  placed  here  fraudulently,  and  who 
themselves  have  no  legal,  moral  or  ethical  right  to  be  in  this  Convention 


HOX.   LAF.UETTE   B.   GLEASOX,  of  New  York, 
General    Secretary   of   the   Convention. 


COLONEL    WILLIAM    F.    STONE,    of    Maryland. 
Sergeant-at-Arms    of    the    Convention    and    of    the    National    Committee. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  49 

at  all.  (Applause.)  In  other  words,  the  proposition  is  simply  that  a  cor- 
rupt judge  shall  sit  in  his  own  case  to  place  himself  upon  this  floor. 

Now  you  Taft  men  who  do  not  want  to  wreck  the  Republican  party, 
who  want  to  see  him  elected  if  he  is  nominated,  I  appeal  to  your  judg- 
ment, to  your  common  sense  and  to  your  honor,  to  let  a  man  be  selected 
as  Temporary  Chairman  who  is  not  on  either  side  of  this  controversy  be- 
tween us.  (Applause.)  Are  you  afraid  to  trust  the  ruling  upon  the  seat- 
ing of  delegates  to  the  representatives  of  Robert  M.  La  Follette  upon 
this  floor?  We  are  not  afraid  to  trust  it  there  on  behalf  of  Colonel 
Roosevelt;  and  we  insist  that  every  Taft  man  who  desires  the  success 
of  the  Republican  party,  and  who  does  not  want  to  see  it  wrecked  to- 
morrow, shall  vote  with  us.  I  therefore  second  the  nomination  of  Gov- 
ernor McGovern,  of  Wisconsin,  as  Temporary  Chairman.  (Applause.) 

MR.  JOHN  J.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of 
the  Convention :  In  behalf  of  the  34  delegates  from  Ohio,  a  State  which 
cast  nearly  fifty  thousand  majority  for  Teddy  Roosevelt,  and  which  is  the 
home  State  of  William  Howard  Taft,  I  second  the  nomination  of  Gov- 
ernor Francis  E.  McGovern  of  Wisconsin.  (Applause.) 

MR.  CHARLES  H.  CAREY,  of  Oregon. — Mr.  Chairman  and  members  of 
the  Convention :  I  come  from  the  State  of  Oregon.  I  occupy  a  rather 
unique  position,  and  I  desire  to  give  a  word  of  explanation. 

In  our  State  we  have  a  primary  law  which  provides  that  persons 
offering  themselves  as  delegates  to  a  National  Convention  shall  declare 
themselves  willing  to  support  to  the  best  of  their  ability  the  choice  of  the 
people  of  the  State  as  expressed  at  the  polls.  Under  this  law,  although 
my  personal  preference  when  I  became  a  candidate  for  the  position  of 
delegate  to  this  Convention  was  for  the  re-election  of  President  Taft,  I 
am  bound  both  by  the  oath  I  have  taken  and  by  the  statute  law  of  my 
State  to  support  to  the  best  of  my  ability  Colonel  Roosevelt  as  the  can- 
didate of  this  Convention.  This  law,  as  I  construe  it,  will  not  require 
me  to  violate  principle  or  conscience;  but  in  all  matters  of  preliminary 
organization  the  Presidential  candidate  for  whom  the  people  of  my  State 
have  declared  has  indicated  his  preference  and  his  desire ;  and  it  not 
being  contrary  to  law  or  good  conscience,  I  propose  to  follow  his  direc- 
tions. It  is  on  this  account  that  I  appear  before  you,  and  in  behalf  of 
myself  and  some  of  the  other  delegates  from  Oregon  who  are  in  a  similar 
position  I  second  the  nomination  of  Hon.  Francis  T.  McGovern.  (Ap- 
plause.) 

MR.  W.  O.  BRADLEY,  of  Kentucky. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of 
the  Convention :  For  three  years  and  more  I  have  had  the  honor  to 
represent  in  part  the  State  of  Kentucky  in  the  United  States  Senate, 
and  during  that  time  it  has  been  my  good  fortune  to  know  Elihu  Root 
intimately.  I  regard  him,  and  he  is  universally  regarded,  as  the  most 
distinguished  man  in  that  body,  and  hence  I  feel  it  eminently  proper  on 


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this  occasion  that  I  should  second  his  nomination.     (Applause.) 

We  have  heard  quite  a  good  deal  about  the  frauds  of  the  National 
Committee.  Allow  me  to  say  to  you  that  such  an  unjust,  dishonorable 
and  outrageous  lot  of  contests  in  the  main  were  never  submitted  to  any 
body  in  this  country.  (Applause.) 

MR.  MEYER  LISSNER,  of  California. — You  voted  for  Lorimer. 

MR.  BRADLEY,  of  Kentucky. — Yes,  I  voted  for  Lorimer,  and  when  I 
did  I  voted  for  a  man  ten  thousand  times  better  than  you,  and  when  you 
rise  upon  this  floor  to  make  threats  about  what  is  going  to  be  done  if 
the  accredited  delegates  are  seated,  allow  me  to  say  you  had  better  think 
what  will  be  done  if  you  succeed  in  unseating  delegates  who  have  been 
honestly  sent  to  this  Convention.  I  come  here  from  a  State  that  is 
neither  ashamed  nor  afraid  to  speak  in  National  Conventions  or  else- 
where, and  I  want  to  say  that  the  time  will  never  come  when  the  great 
State  of  Kentucky  will  be  so  low  and  degraded  as  to  accept  moral  advice 
from  Francis  J.  Heney.  (Applause.)  (There  were  cries  of:  "Lorimer! 
Lorimer !  Lorimer !") 

MR.  BRADLEY,  of  Kentucky. — If  a  man  could  get  under  your  cuticle, 
he  would  find  in  every  way  the  inferior  of  Lorimer.  (Applause.) 

I  had  no  thought  of  saying  a  word  from  this  platform,  and  would  not 
have  done  so  but  for  the  fact  that  men  have  been  allowed  without  denial 
to  make  the  vilest  charges  against  their  betters  utterly  devoid  of  truth. 
You  talk  about  the  South  not  giving  electoral  votes.  Why  does  it  not 
give  electoral  votes?  Because  the  Republicans  of  the  North  cowardly 
deserted  the  South  and  left  her  to  her  fate.  Had  they  given  her  one-third 
the  assistance  given  to  wavering  States  in  the  North,  we  would  have  given 
you  Republican  electoral  votes ;  and  I  want  to  say  to  you  that  I  come 
from  a  Southern  State  which  gave  its  electoral  vote  to  William  McKinley. 
(Applause.)  A  State  that  has  increased  its  Republican  vote  from  39,000 
to  235,000.  (Applause.)  A  State  that  has  elected  three  Republican  gov- 
ernors. A  State  that  has  elected  two  Republican  United  States  Senators; 
and  if  the  Republican  party  of  the  North  will  do  its  duty  by  that  State, 
we  will  give  you  other  electoral  votes.  ("Not  for  Taft!")  Yes,  we  will 
give  them  to  Taft,  but  I  doubt  whether  we  can  give  them  to  Roosevelt 
(Applause.) 

Now,  in  conclusion,  I  want  to  thank  you  gentlemen  for  your  most 
decorous  and  courteous  attention.  (Cries  of  "Lorimer!  Lorimer!  Lori- 
mer!") ("You  stole  your  seat!")  I  respond,  Liar!  Liar!  Liar! 

Whenever  we  establish  the  proposition  that  men  by  inaugurating 
groundless  contests  and  bringing  them  before  the  National  Committee 
and  this  Convention  can  prevent  those  who  have  the  credentials  from 
casting  their  votes,  we  will  destroy  all  party  organization.  They  might 
contest  every  State  except  one  which  favored  their  candidate,  and  by 
excluding  contested  delegates  in  all  the  other  States  enable  one  State  to 


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decide  the  whole  issue.  All  we  want  is  fairness,  and  only  fairness.  We 
are  not  afraid  to  demand  it,  and  we  will  have  it. 

(At  this  point  there  was  great  disorder  in  the  hall.) 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — Let  us  have  order. 

MR.  BRADLEY,  of  Kentucky. — Mr.  Chairman,  with  your  consent  I  will 
suspend  for  a  few  minutes  and  allow  each  fool  in  this  Convention  to  get 
through  with  his  interruptions  before  I  resume.  (Laughter.)  The  Pre- 
siding Officer  says  if  I  were  to  do  that,  I  would  be  here  a  month. 

Now  in  conclusion  we  want  the  Committee  on  Credentials  to  take 
these  cases  and  decide  them  as  they  have  always  decided  them  in  the 
history  of  the  Republican  party.  We  do  not  want,  and  will  not  have, 
any  of  this  rough-riding.  (Applause.) 

A  DELEGATE. — He  voted  for  Lorimer,  and  now  he  votes  for  Root. 

MR.  BRADLEY,  of  Kentucky. — Let  me  say  one  thing  more  to  you :  If 
you  gentlemen  think  you  can  override  and  bully  this  Convention,  you  are 
mistaken.  (Applause.) 

A  DELEGATE. — Steam  roller! 

MR.  BRADLEY,  of  Kentucky. — Steam  roller,  did  I  hear  you  say? 

A  DELEGATE. — Lorimer ! 

MR.  BRADLEY,  of  Kentucky. — Roosevelt  ran  the  steam  roller  over  me 
eight  times  in  1908,  but  I  voted  the  ticket,  as  I  always  vote  it.  All  we 
want  in  this  Convention  is  regularity  and  justiee. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Convention  will  be  in  order. 

MR.  BRADLEY,  of  Kentucky. — I  am  not  in  any  hurry  at  all. 

A  DELEGATE. — Take  another  drink ! 

MR.  BRADLEY,  of  Kentucky. — I  am  afraid  you  have  taken  too  many 
drinks.  (Laughter.) 

The  SERGEANT- AT- ARMS. — Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  the  Chair 
begs  to  remind  you  that  this  is  a  Republican  Convention ;  and  he  asks  that 
all  speakers  be  treated  with  courtesy;  that  these  constant  interruptions 
and  attempts  practically  to  treat  speakers  with  disrespect  will  merely 
prolong  the  seconding  as  well  as  the  nominating  speeches ;  and  will  fur- 
ther tax  your  patience.  Therefore,  the  Chairman  asks  you  to  treat  each 
speaker  with  that  courtesy  which  is  his  due. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Senator  from  Kentucky  will 
please  proceed. 

MR.  BRADLEY,  of  Kentucky. — I  beg  you  to  remember  that,  as  has  been 
suggested,  this  is  a  Republican  Convention,  and  whatever  may  be  our 
differences  of  opinion,  we  represent  the  party  of  free  thought  and  free 
speech.  We  are  here  to-day  for  the  purpose  of  demanding,  as  I  said  a 
moment  ago,  simply  justice  under  the  rules  of  Republican  organization. 
We  ask  nothing  more,  and  this  we  will  have.  (Applause.) 

If  this  Committee  should  report  that  any  delegate  ought  to  be  turned 
out,  that  is  the  end  of  it ;  but,  gentlemen,  I  ask  you  to  remember  that  this 


52  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

is  a  nation  of  law  and  order.  This  is  not  a  nation  of  revolution.  This 
is  not  a  nation  of  anarchy  and  socialism,  but  of  representative  constitu- 
tional government.  (Applause.) 

MR.  R.  S.  VESSEY,  of  South  Dakota. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen 
of  the  Convention :  I  am  here  from  South  Dakota,  representing  the 
full  delegation,  to  second  the  nomination  of  a  man  not  belonging  to  that 
faction  of  the  party  which  is  supporting  a  candidate  for  the  nomination, 
but  I  am  supporting  his  candidacy  because  I  know  him  personally  to  be  a 
man  above  reproach,  a  man  who  will  be  impartial,  a  man  who  has  the 
ability  to  rule  this  Convention  with  credit  to  himself  and  with  credit  to 
the  great  Republican  party  of  the  United  States,  which  we  are  endeavor- 
ing to  save  £rom  ruin  at  this  time. 

It  seems  to  me,  gentlemen,  that  a  man  does  not  need  any  other  cer- 
tificate for  immoral  character  than  the  fact  that  he  has  sent  to  the  peni- 
tentiary Abe  Ruef,  the  chief  of  all  the  grafters  in  these  United  States. 
It  seems  that  in  another  case  a  man  does  not  need  any  other  certificate 
for  high  moral  character  than  to  have  voted  to  retain  in  the  Senate  of 
the  United  States  Senator  Lorimer  of  Chicago.  If  you  are  going  to  draw 
the  issue  in  this  Convention  between  the  conviction  of  rascals  and  the 
seating  of  rascals  in  the  United  States  Senate,  I  want  to  say  that  we 
are  ready  to  get  on  the  right  side  of  this  line. 

A  DELEGATE. — Did  Root  vote  for  Lorimer? 

MR.  VESSEY,  of  South  Dakota. — The  time  has  come,  gentlemen,  when 
that  which  should  be  uppermost  in  our  minds  should  be  the  saving  of  the 
Republican  party,  and  I  believe  that  means  more  to  you,  and  it  means 
more  to  me,  than  does  the  question  who  shall  receive  the  nomination  for 
President  of  these  United  States ;  because  on  the  principles  of  the  Re- 
publican party  all  these  institutions  of  ours,  constituting  the  greatest  gov- 
ernment in  this  world,  have  been  founded,  formed,  and  are  to-day  in  our 
keeping. 

I  think  the  time  has  come  for  us  to  get  together  and  put  into  the 
chair  of  this  Convention  that  noble,  heroic  governor  of  Wisconsin,  who 
will  give  you  a  square  deal,  as  he  will  every  delegate  in  this  Convention. 

I  thank  you. 

MR.  HENRY  J.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas. — Mr.  Chairman,  ladies  and  gentle- 
men, and  fellow  citizens,  members  of  this  Convention,  and  the  contested 
delegates :  I  hope  no  one  in  the  gallery  will  become  impatient.  I  con- 
gratulate you  people  of  Chicago  upon  the  show  you  have  bought.  (Ap- 
plause.) The  hotels  of  Chicago  have  required  from  every  Kansas  man — 
and  I  dare  say  we  are  no  exception  to  the  rule — a  contract,  and  they  are 
charging  us  more  money  than  we  know  how  to  get  to  pay  our  bills. 
(Cries  of  "See  Perkins.") 

My  friends,  Kansas  is  going  to  second  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Mc- 
Govern.  Kansas  was  the  first  State  to  accept  Theodore  Roosevelt's  en- 


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dorsement  four  years  ago  for  the  Presidency.  (Applause.)  Hear.  me. 
More  recently  Kansas  has  been  the  first  State  to  call  Mr.  Roosevelt's 
attention  to  the  endorser's  obligation  when  pledges  are  in  default.  It  is 
not  remarkable  that  we  should  still  be  loyal  to  that  great  leader  of  four 
years  ago.  It  is  not  so  remarkable  as  it  might  seem.  The  fact  is,  when  a 
man  has  endorsed  for  an  individual,  and  the  individual  has  failed  to  make 
good  the  obligation,  we  believe  in  the  endorser  making  it  good.  (Ap- 
plause.) And  when  you  tell  us  that  this  leader  is  a  demagogue  and  a 
fanatic,  we  remember  that  they  told  us  that  Abraham  Lincoln  was  an 
ignoramus  and  a  baboon.  When  they  tell  us  that  he  plays  to  the  grand- 
stand, we  are  comforted  to  remember  that  the  same  sons  of  freedom 
are  in  the  grandstand  to-day  as  sat  there  in  other  days.  When  they 
tell  us  that  he  appeals  to  the  mob,  we  are  comforted  to  remember  what 
the  mob  did  at  Boston,  at  Lexington,  at  Gettysburg,  at  Appomattox,  and 
later  in  the  Pennsylvania  and  the  California  and  the  Ohio  primaries. 
(Applause.)  There  has  always  been  this  sneer  at  "the  mob"  upon  the  lips 
of  those  who  believe  that  government  is  their  special  privilege.  There 
were  a  lot  of  complacent  and  self-satisfied  gentlemen  who  complained  that 
there  was  a  waste  of  tea  in  Boston  harbor.  Those  same  men  could  see 
nothing  in  the  impending  civil  war  except  the  sacred  privilege  of  com- 
merce and  cotton.  Those  same  men  have  at  every  step  of  progression 
stood  and  denounced  "the  mob,"  and  declared  that  any  recourse  to 
which  the  representative  part  of  the  people  might  go  would  be  reasonable 
in  the  interest  of  organization. 

Now,  my  friends,  Kansas  is  glad  to  stand  to-day  with  Ohio,  with 
Maine,  with  Oregon,  with  Pennsylvania,  with  the  Dakotas,  with  Wiscon- 
sin, with  Minnesota,  with  Nebraska,  with  Missouri,  with  the  great  States 
that  constitute  the  backbone  of  the  Republican  party,  and  say  to  you 
gentlemen  that  you  cannot,  you  shall  not,  run  over  those  States  with  a 
lot  of  delegates  whose  right  to  sit  here  is  questioned  honestly. 

MR.  ALBERT  BUSHNELL  HART,  of  Massachusetts. — Mr.  Chairman  and 
gentlemen :  Three  minutes^  for  the  Roosevelt  delegation  from  Massa- 
chusetts ;  18  delegates  for  Theodore  Roosevelt.  We  had  the  hardest 
fight  in  Massachusetts  that  was  waged  in  any  State  in  the  Union.  We  had 
not  a  Senator,  we  had  not  a  Republican  Member  of  Congress,  not  an  ex- 
governor.  We  had  the  people,  and  we  split  that  State  open  and  elected 
one-half  of  the  delegates,  and  we  and  our  constitutents  are  going  to 
be  members  of  the  future  Republican  party  of  Massachusetts.  (Ap- 
plause.) When  we  began,  people  looked  on  us  as  they  looked  on  the 
good  Virginia  lady  who  about  50  years  ago  saw  Grant's  army  marching 
by.  She  had  a  little  dog  with  her,  and  she  said :  "Fido,  you  must  not 
bark  at  the  United  States  Army."  Well,  we  barked  at  the  stand-pat  army 
in  Massachusetts,  and  we  carried  our  delegation. 

Now,   what  does  this   delegation   want?     We   want   nothing   in   this 


54  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

world  but  a  square  deal.  (Applause.)  This  is  a  Republican  Convention. 
These  delegates  here  have  been  lawfully  elected.  Whose  will  should 
prevail  in  regard  to  the  proceedings  of  this  Convention?  The  will  of  the 
delegates  lawfully  elected,  and  that  of  nobody  else  on  earth.  We  are  here 
to  decide  upon  our  procedure.  As  Napoleon  said  to  his  army,  "You  are 
not  descendants ;  you  are  ancestors" ;  and  this  Convention  is  the  ancestor 
of  a  series  of  Conventions  in  which  shall  prevail  the  principle  that  the 
will  of  the  people  shall  be  recognized  and  shall  prevail.  (Applause.) 
And  therefore  the  Roosevelt  delegates  from  Massachusetts  are  willing 
in  this  Convention  to  be  governed  by  Governor  McGovern,  because  we 
believe  he  will  give  us  a  square  deal ;  and  that  is  all  we  want ;  and 
less  than  that,  God  helping  us,  we  will  not  accept.  (Applause.) 

MR.  WALTER  L.  HOUSER,  of  Wisconsin. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen 
of  the  Convention :  I  promise  at  the  outset  that  which  will  be  a  pleas- 
ing promise,  and  that  is  that  I  will  be  very  brief. 

Men  have  spoken  from  this  platform  to-day  in  behalf  of  the  distin- 
guished chief  executive  of  our  State,  claiming  to  represent  the  interests 
of  Senator  La  Follette.  I  am  here  to  say  to  you  that  they  have  neither 
the  authority,  nor  do  they  represent  him  in  this  direction.  I  say  to  you, 
in  order  that  his  record  may  be  kept  straight,  that  refusing  from  the 
beginning  of  this  campaign,  and,  aye,  back  of  that  a  year  ago,  down  to 
this  present  hour,  to  enter  into  any  combination  or  alliance  with  any  can- 
didate or  set  of  men,  he  refuses  now  to  be  forced  into  such  an  alliance. 

The  Wisconsin  delegation,  after  deliberately  considering  this  propo- 
sition, acting  in  accordance  with  his  judgment  and  his  wishes,  and  for 
the  purpose  of  promoting  his  candidacy  before  this  Convention,  voted 
decisively  not  to  present  a  candidate  for  Presiding  Officer  of  this  Con- 
vention. (Applause.)  I  state  this,  that  the  history  of  Senator  La  Fol- 
lette's  campaign  before  and  during  this  Convention  may  be  kept  along 
the  straight,  consistent  line  that  he  has  pursued  from  the  beginning. 
(Applause.) 

I  thank  you,  sirs. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — No  further  nominations  being 
offered,  the  Chair  will  recognize  no  more  gentlemen  for  seconding 
speeches,  but  will  order  the  roll  to  be  called. 

MR.  LAWRENCE  Y.  SHERMAN,  of  Illinois. — Mr.  Chairman 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  gentleman  is  out  of  order. 
The  Sergeant-at-Arms  will  request  delegates  sitting  on  the  platform  to 
resume  their  seats  with  their  respective  delegation. 

MR.  SHERMAN,  of  Illinois. — I  rise  for  the  purpose  of  offering  a  reso- 
lution. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE.— The  gentleman  is  out  of  order. 

MR.  SHERMAN,  of  Illinois. — I  offer  a  resolution  which  is  material  to 
the  roll  call  about  to  be  taken  on  the  question  of  a  Temporary  Chairman. 


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The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — You  are  out  of  order. 

MR.  SHERMAN,  of  Illinois. — I  appeal  from  the  decision  of  the  Chair 
declaring  me  out  of  order,  and  desire  to  be  heard  on  the  appeal. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  gentleman  is  out  of  order. 

MR.  SHERMAN,  of  Illinois. — I  give  to  the  press  the  resolution  which  I 
desire  to  offer. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — Do  as  you  please  about  that. 

MR.  COCHEMS,  of  Wisconsin,  addressed  the  Chair. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  gentleman  is  out  of  order. 

MR.  COCHEMS,  of  Wisconsin. — I  rise  to  a  question  of  personal  privi- 
lege. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — We  are  about  to  have  a  roll  call. 

MR.  COCHEMS,  of  Wisconsin. — I  rise  to  a  question  of  personal  privi- 
lege. 

MR.  LEE  C.  GATES,  of  California. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  wish  to  make  a 
motion. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  gentleman  is  out  of  order. 

MR.  GATES,  of  California. — Mr.  Chairman,  California  wishes  to  make 
a  motion,  and  to  enter  her  protest  before  the  roll  is  called,  against  the 
calling  of  the  two  names  from  the  Ninth  Alabama  district  for  the  reason 
that  those  delegates  have  been  seated  without  authority  and  by  the  fraudu- 
lent action  of  the  National  Committee.  I  am  appealing  to  this  Con- 
vention to  vote  upon  the  question  whether  the  two  delegates  from  the 
State  of  Alabama  shall  be  permitted  to  sit  in  judgment  upon  their  own 
cases. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  gentleman  from  Wisconsin 
will  be  accorded  two  minutes  for  an  explanation. 

MR.  COCHEMS,  of  Wisconsin.— Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  I  have 
been  accorded  two  minutes  by  the  Chairman  to  make  clear  the  credentials 
upon  which  I  appeared  and  placed  in  nomination  in  this  Convention 
Governor  McGovern.  Therefore.  I  desire  no  interruption  until  that  is 
made  clear. 

It  was  decided  in  the  Wisconsin  delegation  this  morning  by  a  vote  of 
15  to  11  that  the  delegation  as  such  would  not  advance  the  candidacy  of 
any  one  for  Temporary  Chairman ;  but,  freed  of  the  unit  rule,  we  con- 
cluded to  present  him,  as  I  represented  it  in  plain  English  as  an  indi- 
vidual La  Follette  delegate;  and  I  challenge  any  man  in  the  progressive 
delegation  from  the  State  of  Wisconsin  to  rise  in  his  seat  and  vote  for 
Elihu  Root  in  this  Convention  for  Temporary  Chairman,  and  return  to 
that  State. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — Following  the  precedent  of  the 
Convention  of  1884,  which  is  the  only  Republican  National  Convention  in 
which  the  recommendation  of  the  National  Committee  has  been  chal- 
lenged, the  Secretary  will  call  the  roll  of  delegates  by  name,  and  each 


56  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

delegate  will  rise  in  his  place  as  his  name  is  called,  and  answer  with  the 
name  of  his  preference  for  Temporary  Chairman  of  this  Convention. 

MR.  SHERMAN,  of  Illinois. — I  rise  to  a  question  of  personal  privilege. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  gentleman  from  Illinois  is 
out  of  order. 

MR.  SHERMAN,  of  Illinois. — I  will  be  heard  in  your  State.  You  cannot 
sit  on  a  delegate. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Secretary  will  call  the  roll. 

The  Secretary  proceeded  to  call  the  roll. 

MR.  WILLIAM  BARNES,  JR.,  of  New  York  (when  the  Alabama  delega- 
tion had  voted). — Let  the  result  of  the  vote  of  the  Alabama  delegation  be 
announced. 

The  result  was  announced:     Root,  22;  McGovern,  2. 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  HENEY,  of  California  (when  Arizona  was  called). — I  object  to 
the  calling  of  the  names  of  Hubbell,  Williams,  Freudenthal,  Morrison, 
Wright  and  Adams,  of  Arizona,  because  they  are  not  delegates  to  this 
Convention,  and  were  placed  upon  the  roll  fraudulently  by  the  National 
Committee ;  and  I  ask  to  be  heard  upon  the  question.  Mr.  Chairman,  am 
J  recognized  for  that  purpose? 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — No;  the  gentleman  is  not  in 
order  during  the  roll  call. 

MR.  HENEY,  of  California. — Am  I  recognized  for  the  purpose  of  ob- 
jecting? 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — No.  Nothing  is  in  order  but 
the  roll  call. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  J.  L.  Hubbell,  of  Arizona,  and  he 
voted  for  Mr.  Root. 

MR.  HENEY,  of  California. — Am  I  recognized  for  the  purpose  of  ob- 
jecting? 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — No;  the  gentleman  is  out  of 
order. 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  JOHNSON,  of  California  (when  the  name  of  E.  H.  Tryon  of  the 
Fourth  district  of  California  was  called). — Mr.  Chairman,  California 
objects  to  the  calling  of  the  names  of  Mr.  Tryon  and  Mr.  Meyer f eld. 
There  are  no  such  delegates  elected  from  that  State. 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  JOHNSON,  of  California. — We  serve  notice  upon  this  Convention 
that  we  will  be  bound  by  no  election  of  delegates  such  as  Tryon  and 
Meyerfeld  who  were  not  elected  by  the  people  of  California.  I  demand 
that  before  you  leave  California  you  call  the  names  of  Bancroft  and  of 
Wheeler,  who  were  elected  in  the  State  of  California  by  77,000  majority. 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  57 

MR.  CHARLES  S.  DENEEN,  of  Illinois  (when  the  name  of  J.  A.  Glenn, 
Twentieth  district,  Illinois,  was  called).— Here  is  the  proxy  for  his  alter- 
nate. What  is  the  ruling  of  the  Chair  upon  that  matter? 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — No  proxies  are  permitted  in  this 
Convention. 

MR.  DENEEN,  of  Illinois. — Dr.  Glenn  is  in  the  Coliseum,  and  will  be 
here  in  a  few  moments.  I  ask  that  he  be  passed. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — He  will  be  called  later. 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  JOHN  D.  MACKAY,  of  Michigan  (when  the  name  of  Mr.  John 
Wallace,  Seventh  district,  Michigan,  was  called). — Pass  Mr.  Wallace  for 
the  present. 

The  Secretary  resumed  and  concluded  the  roll  call  so  far  as  con- 
cerned Michigan. 

MR.  MACKAY,  of  Michigan. — Mr.  Wallace  is  not  here,  nor  is  his 
alternate. 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  JAMES  W.  WADSWORTH,  JR.,  of  New  York  (when  the  name  of 
Elihu  Root  was  called). — Mr.  Root  is  not  voting. 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll.  When  the  Pennsyl- 
vania delegation  was  called,  Mr.  Allen  F.  Cooper,  of  the  Twenty-third 
district,  failed  to  respond  to  his  name. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Call  his  alternate. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Secretary  will  call  the  name 
of  the  alternate. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Mr.  George  W.  Newcomer. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Mr.  Kendall  is  the  alternate. 

The  Secretary  again  called  the  name  of  Mr.  Allen  F.  Cooper,  and 
there  was  no  response,  and  he  thereupon  called  the  name  of  Mr.  George 
W.  Newcomer,  alternate. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  myself  went 
to  the  clerk  of  the  National  Committee,  and  he  informed  me  that  Mr. 
Kendall  was  the  alternate  in  this  district.  He  is  first  on  the  list.  He  was 
endorsed  unanimously  by  the  Pennsylvania  delegation.  The  clerk  has  no 
right  to  call  Mr.  Newcomer.  He  should  call  the  first  alternate  on  the 
list  from  that  district. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Secretary  will  call  the  name 
of  the  alternate  whose  name  appears  opposite  that  of  the  delegate  who 
has  not  responded. 

The  clerk  again  called  the  name  of  Mr.  George  W.  Newcomer. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  protest,  Mr.  Chairman. 
("Sit  down !")  No,  I  will  not  sit  down.  Now  let  me  make  a  statement 
to  you.  This  is  the  condition 


58  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF  THE 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Secretary  will  read  the  pre- 
cedent in  this  case. 

The  Reading  Clerk  read  as  follows: 

"In  the  Convention  of  1880  a  question  arose  as  to  the  voting  of  alter- 
nates, and  the  Chairman  (Mr.  George  F.  Hoar,  of  Massachusetts)  ruled: 
'The  Chair  holds  that  when  a  delegate  fails  to  respond,  the  name  of  the 
alternate  borne  upon  the  roll  opposite  that  delegate  shall  then  be  called.'" 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  roll  call  will  be  proceeded 
with. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Wait  a  moment.  I  went  to 
the  Secretary  of  the  National  Committee  myself  this  morning,  Mr.  Chair- 
man  

The  Secretary  again  called  the  name  of  Mr.  George  W.  Newcomer. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  protest,  Mr.  Chairman. 
Now  wait  a  moment.  ("Sit  down!") 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Chair  will  not  permit  the 
roll  call  to  be  interrupted. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  protest,  Mr.  Chairman, 
please.  Now  wait  a  moment 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  gentleman  from  Pennsyl- 
vania is  out  of  order,  and  the  roll  call  will  be  continued. 

The  Secretary  again  called  the  name  of  Mr.  George  W.  Newcomer. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Mr.  Chairman,  wait  a  mo- 
ment. I  protest  against  that  vote.  Is  it  possible  you  will  not  even  listen  to  a 
statement?  I  want  to  say  something  to  you,  Mr.  Chairman.  Now,  listen 
to  what  I  have  to  say. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  roll  call  alone  is  in  order. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Listen  to  what  I  have  to  say. 
I  say  to  you  that  you  are  raping  your  own  roll ;  that  the  Secretary  of  the 
National  Committee  himself  told  me  that  Mr.  Kendall  was  the  alternate. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Secretary  will  proceed  with 
the  calling  of  the  roll. 

The  Secretary  again  called  the  name  of  Mr.  George  W.  Newcomer. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  protest!  Steal!  Thief  1 
That  is  not  right.  Why  do  you  not  call  the  first  alternate  on  the  list? 

The  Reading  Clerk  again  called  the  name  of  Mr.  George  W.  New- 
comer, and  he  voted  for  Mr.  Root. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLJNN,  of  Pennsylvania. — You  are  a  pack  of  thieves; 
that  is  what  you  are. 

The  Secretary  resumed  and  concluded  the  call  of  the  Pennsylvania 
delegation. 

The  result  of  the  vote  of  Pennsylvania  was  announced:  McGovern, 
64;  Root,  12. 

MR.  RICHARD  R.  QUAY,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  challenge  that  vote. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  59 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania.— I  challenge  that  vote.  It  is 
not  possible  you  are  going  to  steal  a  vote  in  open  convention?  I  ask  for 
another  poll  of  the  delegation.  I  challenge  that  vote.  Mr.  Chairman,  I 
would  not  let  any  roll  be  called!  Why  should  we  go  on  with  this?  You 
will  not  give  me  recognition.  You  will  not  even  let  me  be  heard  i  Why 
should  we  go  on  with  any  roll  call?  Here  is  the  certificate 

MR.  WILLIAM  BARNES,  JR.,  of  New  York.— Mr.  Chairman,  I  ask 
unanimous  consent  that  the  name  of  this  alternate  be  not  called  until 
after  the  completion  of  the  roll. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania.— Mr.  Chairman,  you  will  have 
a  happy  time  calling  any  roll  here  this  afternoon  unless  you  give  us 
justice.  *  Do  not  let  them  call  the  roll!  We  are  going  to  be  heard  in 
this  Convention,  or  you  are  not  going  to  have  any  roll  call. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Secretary  will  again  call  the 
State  of  Pennsylvania. 

The  Secretary  proceeded  again  to  call  the  roll  of  Pennsylvania. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Allen  F.  Cooper,  and  he  did  not 
respond.  Thereupon  he  called  the  name  of  George  W.  Newcomer,  alter- 
nate. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  want  to  be  heard  on  that 
proposition. 

Mr.  Newcomer  (when  his  name  was  called)  voted  for  Mr.  Root. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  protest  against  that  vote, 
and  I  want  to  be  heard  on  that  proposition.  If  you  will  give  me  a  hear- 
ing I  should  like  to  make  a  statement,  and  I  should  like  to  have  a  little 
attention,  too. 

I  hold  in  my  hand  the  certificate  of  the  Secretary  of  State  of  Pennsyl- 
vania showing  which  one  of  these  alternates  had  the  highest  vote.  We 
also  have  a  roll  of  delegates  and  alternates  prepared  here,  and  Mr.  Ken- 
dall's name  is  the  first  name  on  that  list.  The  Secretary  of  the  National 
Committee,  whose  roll  it  is,  told  me  that  Mr.  Kendall  was  entitled  to  act 
for  Mr.  Cooper.  In  addition  to  that  we  have  the  unanimous  vote  of  the 
Pennsylvania  delegation ;  and  I  want  to  say  to  you,  Mr.  Chairman,  if 
you  steal  this  vote,  you  will  call  no  more  rolls  in  this  Convention  to-day. 
("Oh !  Oh !")  I  want  fair  treatment  here,  and  I  am  going  to  have  it. 
Shall  I  come  up  where  I  can  talk  to  you?  The  condition  is  this:  I  hold 
in  my  hand 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — I  heard  what  you  said. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Well,  then,  do  you  want  me 
to  make  a  statement?  Then  pardon  me  one  more  word. 

The  Secretary  of  the  National  Committee,  at  11 :30  this  morning, 
told  me  Mr.  Kendall's  name  would  be  on  the  roll 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — It  is  on  the  roll. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — And  that  his  name  would  be 


60  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

called  as  the  alternate  for  Mr.  Cooper,  because  he  is  first  on  the  list,  and 
that  has  been  the  rule  of  all  preceding  National  Conventions. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Chair  begs  to  differ  with 
the  gentleman.  The  Chair  wishes  to  state  that  no  statement  made  by  the 
Secretary  of  the  National  Committee  has  any  bearing  upon  this  question. 
The  Chair  has  only  to  go  by  the  credentials  filed,  and,  following  the  rule 
of  all  National  Conventions,  which  was  established  by  ftie  Convention  of 
1880  under  the  chairmanship  of  Senator  Hoar,  from  which  I  take  the 
precedent,  the  Chair  holds  that  the  name  of  the  alternate  on  the  roll  op- 
posite that  of  the  principal  shall  be  called ;  and  that  is  what  has  been  done 
here  all  this  afternoon. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  disagree  with  you.  This  is 
the  roll  of  the  Secretary  of  the  National  Committee,  and  he  tells  me  that 
that  has  not  been  the  custom,  but  that  it  has  been  the  custom  in  all  Na- 
tional Conventions  with  which  he  is  familiar  to  call  the  name  first  on  the 
roll,  and  the  first  name  certified  as  the  alternate  is  that  of  Mr.  Kendall. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — If  you  will  permit,  the  Chair  will 
again  state  that  the  Secretary  of  this  Convention  has  no  authority  to 
make  such  a  ruling  in  the  first  place,  and  in  the  second  place  he  has  never 
officiated  in  that  capacity  in  any  previous  Convention.  The  Chair  has  a 
complete  precedent,  in  the  case  where  the  ruling  was  established,  and 
which  has  since  been  followed,  so  far  as  he  knows,  and  that  is  in  the 
Convention  of  1880,  where  this  same  question  arose,  and  the  Chairman, 
Mr.  George  F.  Hoar,  of  Massachusetts,  ruled : 

"The  Chair  holds  that  when  a  delegate  fails  to  respond,  the  name  of 
the  alternate  borne  upon  the  roll  opposite  that  delegate  shall  be  called." 

And  that  is  what  has  been  done  all  through  this  roll  call.  The  Chair 
is  making  no  discrimination  for  or  against  any  one,  and  he  has  no  per- 
sonal interest  in  this  particular  case.  The  same  rule  has  been  applied 
throughout  this  roll  call,  from  start  to  finish. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — You  certify  the  roll  of  the 
Secretary. . 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — Your  Secretary  of  State  certifies 
this  roll  from  Pennsylvania. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — You  certify  the  roll  to  this 
Convention  from  the  Republican  National  Committee,  and  the  Secretary 
of  that  committee  told  me  that  the  man  first  on  the  list  would  be  called 
as  the  alternate. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — In  that  he  is  in  error. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — We  are  not  going  to  let  you 
juggle  it.  It  is  no  error.  He  is  the  gentleman  whose  name  ought  to  be 
called.  Mr.  Kendall  has  the  high  vote.  We  will  not  stand  it  at  all. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Secretary  will  proceed  with 
the  calling  of  the  roll. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  61 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  Pennsylvania  delegates, 
and  the  result  was  announced :  McGovern,  64 ;  Root,  12. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Mr.  Chairman,  you  have  an- 
other mistake  in  that  roll  call.  See !  Mr.  Hersch  did  not  vote  on  the 
second  call. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Secretary  will  call  Rhode 
Island. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — No,  no !.     You  are  thieves ! 

MR.  ZIBA  T.  MOORE. — You  are  robbers! 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Your  roll  call  is  not  right. 

MR.  MOORE,  of  Pennsylvania. — We  challenge  that  roll. 

MR.  RICHARD  R.  QUAY,  of  Pennsylvania. — You  have  stolen  everything 
else,  but  you  cannot  steal  Pennsylvania. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Secretary  will  proceed  with 
the  calling  of  the  roll. 

The  Secretary  resumed  and  concluded  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  ask  leave 
to  file  a  protest. 

The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  Secretary  will  first  announce 
the  result  of  the  roll  call. 

The  result  was  announced :  Root,  558 ;  McGovern,  501 ;  Lauder,  12 ; 
Houser,  1;  Gronna,  1;  not  voting,  5,  as  follows: 

ALABAMA. 

AT    LARGE.  McGoV-          Not 

Delegates.  Root.        ern.        Voting. 

O.   D.   Street , i 

J.    J.    Curtis i 

S.    T.    Wright i 

Shelby     S.     Pleasants i 

Alex     C.     Birch i 

U.    G.    Mason i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Prelate    D.    Barker i 

Clarence   W.    Allen i 

2 — Wiley    W.    Pridgen i 

George     Newstell i 

3 — Byron     Trammell J 

John    B.    Daughtry i 

4 — John    A.     Bingham i 

James    I.    Abercrombie i 

5 — Douglas     Smith      i 

Lewis    D.     Hicks » 

6 — Pope    M.    Long i 

C.     P.     Lunsford i 

7 — R.    B.    Thompson i 

C.    D.    Alverson i 

8 — Morton     M.     Hutchens ' 

Charles   W.    Moore i 


62 


OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 


ALABAMA. — Continued. 

McGov-       Not 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates.  Root.        ern.        Voting. 

9 — James     B.     Sloan i 

J.    Rivers    Carter i 

22  2 

ARIZONA. 
Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

J.    L.    Hubbell i 

J.    T.    Williams,   Jr i 

R.    H.     Freudenthal i 

Robert   E.    Morrison i 

F.    L.     Wright i               .  .    ' 

J.   C.   Adams i 

6 

ARKANSAS. 
Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

Powell     Clayton      i 

H.    L.    Remmel i 

C.    N.    Rix i 

C.    E.    Bush i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Charles    R.    French i 

Charles  T.    Bloodworth i 

2 — H.    H.     Meyers i 

R.    S.    Coffman i 

3— R.    S.    Granger i 

J.     F.     Mayes i 

4 — C.   E.   Spear i 

J.   O.   Livesay i 

S — N.     B.     Burrow i 

S.   A.  Jones i 

6 — Ferd  Havis . .                i 

C.    M.    Wade i 

7 — H.    G.    Friedheim i 

T.    S.    Grayson i 

17  i 

CALIFORNIA. 
Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

Hiram    W.    Johnson .  .                i 

Chester  H.  Rowell . .                i 

Meyer    Lissner . .                i 

Francis   J.    Heney ' . .                i 

William     Kent . .                i 

Mrs.    Florence    C.    Porter . .                i 

Marshall  Stimson .  .                i 

Frank     S.     Wallace  .  .  i 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  63 

CALIFORNIA.— Continued. 

McGov-       Not 

Delegates.                                                                                 R»ot.  ern.        Voting. 

George   C.   Pardee ..  i 

Lee    C.    Gates I 

Clinton    L.    White I 

John  M.   Eshleman    (By  E.   D.   Roberts,  alternate) ..  i 

C    H.    Windham i 

William    H.    Sloane i 

C.     C.    Young ..  i 

Ralph    W.    Bull i 

S.    C.    Beach ; i 

John   H.    McCallum i 

Truxton     Beale      . .  i 

W.    G.    Tillotson i 

Sumner    Crosby      . .  i 

Charles    E.    Snook . .  i 

Mrs.    Isabella    W.    Blaney i 

Jesse  L.   Hurlburt . .  i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

4 — E.    H.    Tryon i 

Morris    Meyerfeld,    Jr i 


COLORADO. 
Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

Simon     Guggenheim 

Thomas    H.    Devine 

Jefferson     B.     Farr 

Crawford    Hill     

A.    M.    Stevenson 

Irving    Howbert     ' 

A.    Newton    Parrish 

Jesse   F.    McDonald 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — William    G.    Smith 

George    W.    Johnson  

2 — Casimero  Barela 

E.    T.    Elliott. 


CONNECTICUT. 

Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

Charles    F.    Brooker 

Charles    Hopkins    Clark 

J.    Henry    Roraback 

Frank  B.  Weeks 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Everett  J.  Lake 

Hugh   M.    Alcorn 

a — Charles  A.   Gates 

Francis  J.    Regan 


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OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


CONNECTICUT.— Continutd. 

DISTRICTS. — .Delegates.  Root. 

3 — Isaac  M.    Ullman 

Frank  C.  Woodruff 

4 — John    T.    King 

James    F.    Walsh 

5 — Edwin   J.    Emmons . 

Irving   H.    Chase 

U 

DELAWARE. 
Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

Edmund  Mitchell i 

Henry   A.    du   Pont i 

Harry     A.     Richardson i 

Simeon    S.    Pennewill •  .  .  .   .  i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

George    W.    Marshall i 

Ruby   R.    Vale i 

6 

FLORIDA. 
Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

Henry    S.     Chubb i 

Joseph  E.  Lee i 

M.     B.     Macfarlane i 

W.  A.  Watts i 

Z.  T.   Beilby i 

George    W.    Allen i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — J.    F.    Horr i 

Henry  W.  Bishop i 

2 — George    E.    Gay i 

W.    H.   Lucas i 

3 — T.  F.  McGourin i 

M.  Paige i 

12 

GEORGIA. 
Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

H.     L.    Johnson i 

H.   S.  Jackson i 

B.  J.    Davis i 

C.  P.    Goree i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Henry  Blun i 

William  James i 

a — G.  L.  Liverman i 

S.  S.  Broadnax i 

3 — J.  E.  Peterson i 

J.  C.  Styles i 


McGov- 
ern. 


Not 
Voting. 


WILLIAM    BARNKS.   JR..   of   New    York. 
Chairman   of   the   Advisory   Committee. 


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GEORGIA. — Continued. 

McGov- 

DISTRICTS. — Delegatts.  Root.       ern. 

4 — Walter    H.    Johnson i 

R.    B.    Butt i 

5— J.  W.   Martin x 

W.  F.  Penn x 

6 — George   F.   White i 

R.    A.    Holland x 

7— J.    P.    Dyar i 

Louis  H.  Crawford . .               i 

8 — M.  B.  Morton x 

H.  D.  Bush i 

9 — James    B.    Gaston x 

Roscoe  Pickett x 

xo — John  M.  Barnes ..               i 

Charles  T.    Walker i 

i  x — John  H.   Boone ..                i 

A.   N.   Fluker i 

13 — Clark    Grier     . .                x 

S.   S.   Mincey x 

33  6 

IDAHO. 
Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

A.  R.    Cruzen 

George  R.   Barker 

Qency  St  Clair 

Fred  E.  Fisk 

Frank   J.    Hagenbarth 

Evan    Evans    

C.  L.    Heitman 

D.  W.    Davis I 

8 

ILLINOIS. 
Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

Charles  S.  Deneen i 

Roy  O.  West 

B.  A.   Eckhart 

Chauncey     Dewey 

L.  Y.  Sherman 

Robert  D.  Clark 

L.   L.   Emerson 

W.   A.    Rosenfield 

DISTRICTS. — Delegatts. 

i — Francis  P.  Brady 

Martin   B.   Madden 

» — John  J.  Hamberg 

Isaac  N.  Powell 

3— William  H.    Weber 

Charles   W.    Vail 


Not 
Voting. 


66  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

ILLINOIS.— Continued. 

McGov-      Not 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates.  Root.  ern.        Voting. 

4 — Thomas  J.   Healy . .  i 

Albert   C.    Reiser i 

S — Charles   J.    Happell i 

William  J.   Cooke i 

6 — Homer  K.  Galpin ..  i 

Allen   S.    Ray i 

7 — Abel  Davis . .  i 

D.  A.  Campbell i 

8 — John  F.  Devine  (By  August  Wilhelm,  alternate)  ....  ..  i 

Isidore  H.  Himes ..  i 

9 — Fred   W.    Upham i 

R.    R.    McCormick i 

10 — James   Pease . .  i 

John  E.  Wilder I 

1 1 — Ira  C.   Copley . .  i 

John   Lambert . .  i 

12 — Fred    E.    Sterling ..  i 

H.  W.  Johnson . .  i 

13 — James  A.   Cowley ..  i 

J.    T.    Williams i 

14 — Frank  G.  Allen . .  i 

William  J.  Graham . .  i 

15 — Harry   E.    Brown i 

Clarence  E.   Sniveley i 

16 — Edward  N.  Woodruff . .  i 

Cairo  A.  Trimble . .  i 

I  7 — G.  J.  Johnson . .  i 

Frank    B.    Stitt . . .  i 

18 — John    L.    Hamilton . .  i 

Len     Small      i  ..  .. 

19— W.     L.     Shellabarger i 

Elim    J.    Hawbaker . .  i 

20 — J.     A.     Glenn . .  i 

W.   W.  Watson i 

2i — Logan    Hay      . .  i 

William    H.    Provine . .  i 

22 — Edward    E.     Miller i 

Henry    J.    Schmidt i 

23— William    F.    Bundy i 

Aden     Knoph      . .  i 

24 — Randolph     Smith . .  i 

James     B.     Barker . .  i 

25 — Philip    H.    Eisenmayer . .  i 

Walter    Wood i 

9  49 
INDIANA. 
Delegates.                                 AT   LARGE. 

Harry  S.  New -  •  i 

Charles  W.  Fairbanks i 

James   E.    Watson i 

Joseph    D.    Oliver i 


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67 


INDIANA.— Continued. 

McGov-       Not 

DISTRICTS.— -ZMegato.  Rott.        ern.        Voting. 

i — James     A.     Hemenway I 

Charles  F.  HSllman i 

2— David   R.    Scott i 

Jerry   Wooden i 

3 — George  W.  Applegate i 

Cyrus  M.   Crim i 

4 — Oscar   H.    Montgomery i 

Web  Woodfill i 

5 — William    R.    McKeen i 

Silas  A.  Hays i 

6 — Enos   Porter . .  i 

Thomas   C.    Bryson ..  i 

7— William  E.  English i 

Samuel  L.   Shank i 

8— Harold   Hobbs i 

Edward  C.  Toner ..  i 

9 — William   Holton   Dye . .  i 

William    Endicott     . .  i 

10 — William  R.  Wood i 

Percy  A.   Parry i 

1 1 — David    E.    Harris . .  i 

John  P.  Kenower . .  i 

12— R.    H.    Rerick i 

Henry    Brown . .  i 

13 — Clement    W.    Studebaker i 

Maurice  Fox i 

20  10 

IOWA. 
Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

George    D.    Perkins i 

B.    F.    Carroll i 

Luther  A.  Brewer i 

James     F.     Bryan . .  i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — E.    L.    McClurkin i 

Lot    Abraham i 

2— Rudolph  Rohlfs i 

George   W.    French i 

3 — C.    B.    Santee i 

O.   P.  Morton i 

4 — T.    A.    Potter i 

A.    C.   Wilson i 

5 — William   G.    Downs i 

E.  H.  Downing i 

6 — James    A.    Devitt •  i 

Harry   G.    Brown i 

7 — Jesse  A.   Miller i 

E.    H.    Addison i 

8 — A.    B.    Turner,    Jr i 

E.    E.    Bamford i 


OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 


IOWA.— Continued. 

McGov- 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates.                                                                               Roof.  ern. 

9 — F.   F.   Everest i 

W.    S.    Lewis i 

10 — J.   L.   Stevens . .  i 

J.    P.    Mullen i 

1 1 — J.    W.    Hospers .          . ,  i 

J.  H.  McCord i 

16  10 
KANSAS. 
Delegates.                                 AT   LARGE. 

Henry    J.    Allen . .  i 

Ralph     Harris . .  i 

John    M.    Landon . .  i 

Ansel    R.    Clark i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i— Willis  J.  Bailey i 

A.    E.     Crane i 

2— U.    S.    Sartin i 

C.   O.   Bellinger i 

3 — Nelson    Case . .  i 

Norman    Hay     . .  i 

4 — J.    B.    Greer . .  i 

A.   W.   Logan .'  .    .           . .  i 

S — E.    A.    McGregor . .  i 

A.    M.    Story . .  i 

6 — E.    S.    Bower . .  i 

E.  E.  Mullaney . .  i 

7 — J.     S.     George . .  i 

Carl    Moore     . .  i 

8 — C.   L.   Davidson . .  i 

H.   L.   Woods i 

2  18 

KENTUCKY. 
Delegates.  AT    LARGE. 

W.    O.    Bradley i 

James    Breathitt     i 

W.  D.  Cochran i 

J.    E.    Wood i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i_W.    J.    Deboe i 

John    T.    Tooke i 

2 — R.   A.    Cook i 

J.    B.    Harvey i 

3 — R.    E.   Keown i 

R.  P.  Green i 

4 — Pilson     Smith i 

J.    Roy    Bond i 

S — William  Heyburn . .                i 

Bernard     Bernheim i 


Not 

Voting. 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  69 

KENTUCKY.— Continut*. 

McGov      Not 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates.  Root.        crn.        Voting. 

6 — Maurice   L.    Galvin i 

W.    A.    Burkamp ! 

7— R.    C.    Stoll , 

James     Cureton i 

8 — Coleman    C.    Wallace i 

Leonard  W.    Bethurem i 

g — John     Russell i 

W.    C    Halbert i 

10 — A.  B.   Patrick i 

John    H.    Hardwick i 

ii— D.    C.    Edwards ..  i 

O.    H.    Waddle.  .  i 


23  3 


LOUISIANA. 
Delegates.  AT   LARGE. 

C    H.    Hebert 

Armand   Romain 

Victor  Loisel 

H.   C.   Wannoth 

Emile    Kuntz 

D.    A.       Lines     

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Walter  L.   Cohen 

J.    Madison    Vance 

2 — Leonard  Waguespack 

Charles   J.    Bell 

3 — Ruben  H.  Brown 

E.  J.    Rodrigue 

4— A.  C.  Lea 

J.  P.   Breda   (By  R.   A.   Giddens,  alternate)  . 
5_W.   T.   Insley 

F.  H.   Cook 

6— E.    W.    Sorrell 

B.    V.    Baranco 

7 — L.     E.     Robinson 

Frank  C.   Labit 


MAINE. 
Delegates.  AT   LARGE. 

Morrill    N.    Drew i 

Aretas  E.   Stearns • .  i 

Charles    S.    Hichborn i 

Halbert  P.   Gardner i 

•ISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Frank   M.   Low i 

Gilman  N.  Deering . .  i 


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OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


MAINE. — Continued. 

McGov-       Not 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates.  Root.       ern.        Volinf 

2 — Jesse   M.   Libby . .               i 

William    B.    Kendall .  ..               i 

3 — Edward  N.   Merrill . .               i 

Harry   E.   Merrill . .                i 

4 — A.    E.    Irving . .                 t 

Edward    M.    Lawrence ..                i 

12 

MARYLAND. 
Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

Phillips    Lee    Goldsborough i 

William    T.    Warburton i 

Edw.    C.    Carrington,    Jr . .                i 

George    L.    Wellington    (By   Gist   Blair,   alternate') ..                i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Albert    G.    Tower i 

William     B.     Tilghman i 

2 — Robert  Garrett i 

John    H.    Cunningham i 

3 — Alfred    A.    Moreland . .                i 

Louis   E.    Melis ..                i 

4 — Theodore    P.    Weis . .                i 

Thomas    P.    Evans . .               i 

5 — Adrian    Posey i 

R.     N.     Ryan i 

6 — S.  K.  Jones i 

Galen  L.  Tait . .                i 

8  8 

MASSACHUSETTS. 
Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

Charles  S.   Baxter . .                i 

George     W.     Coleman . .                i 

Frederick    Fosdick . .                i 

Albert   Bushnell   Hart . .                i 

Octave    A.    LaRiviere . .                i 

James  P.   Magenis . .                i 

Arthur    L.    Nason . .                 I 

Alvin  G.   Weeks . .                i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Cummings    C.    Chesney i 

Eugene   B.    Blake i 

2 — Embury     P.     Clark I 

William   H.    Feiker I 

3— Matthew   J.    Whittall i 

Lawrence    F.    Kilty I 

4 — John   M.   Keyes ..                i 

Frederick   P.    Glazier . .                I 

5 — Herbert  L.   Chapman . .               'I 

Smith  M.   Decker    (By  James  R.    Berwick,  alternate)  ..               i 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION. 


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18 


MASSACHUSETTS.— Continued. 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates.  Root. 

6 — James    F.    Ingrabam,    Jr i 

Isaac  Patch    (By  Alfred  E.  Lunt,  alternate) I 

7 — Charles  M.  Cox 

Lynn   M.    Ranger 

8 — John   Read i 

George    S.    Lovejoy i 

9 — Alfred  Tewksbury 

Loyal  L.    Jenkins 

10 — H.     Clifford    Gallagher i 

Guy   A.    Ham i 

ii — Grafton    D.    Gushing i 

W.     Prentiss    Parker i 

12 — J.   Stearns  Gushing i 

George    L.     Barnes i 

13 — John    Westall      i 

Abbott    P.    Smith i 

14 — Eldon   B.   Keith 

Warren  A.   Swift 

MICHIGAN. 
Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

John    D.    MacKay i 

William    J.    Richards i 

George  B.   Morley i 

Eugene    Fifield i 

Fred  A.   Diggins i 

William    Judson      i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — William    L.    Carpenter i 

John    S.    Haggerty i 

2 — Frank  T.  Newton 

L.   Whitney  Watkins 

3 — John    C.    Potter 

Marvin    J.    Schaberg 

4— Edw.     C.     Reid 

John  T.   Owens 

S— Claude    T.    Hamilton 

Fred  W.  Green 

6 — Leonard    Freeman i 

Harry   C.    Guillot i 

7 — John    Wallace     

Lincoln  Avery i 

8 — Theron    W.    Atwood i 

William    M.    Smith I 

9 — Calvin    A.     Palmer 

John  A.  Sherman 

to — Henry    B.    Smith I 

Henry   A.    Frambach I 

ii— William    H.    White i 

V.     R.     Davy i 


McGov- 
ern. 


Not 
Voting. 


72 


OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 


DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 
la— J.    H.    Rice.  .  . 
J.   C.   Kirkpatrick , 


MICHIGAN.— Continued. 


McGov-       Not 
Root.        ern.        Voting. 


MINNESOTA. 

Delegates.  AT    LARGE. 

E.    K.    Roverud 

Moses   E.    Clapp 

Milton    D.    Purdy 

Jacob  F.  Jacobson 

O.    J.    Larson , 

A.   L.   Hanson , 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i— H.    J.     Harm 

Tollef    Sanderson     , 

a — William  F.  Hughes , 

Emil  King 

3— Job  W.  Lloyd 

J.   A.   Gates , 

4— Hugh   T.   Halbert , 

R.    A.    Wilkinson 

S — Andrew  A.   D.    Rahn 

Stanley  Washburn 

6 — Andrew     Davis      , 

E.    C.    Tuttle     

7 — T.    T.    Ofsthun 

A.    J.    Johnson 

8 — W.    A.    Eaton 

W.  H.   LaPlant 

9 — Charles     L.     Stevens 

Frank    S.     Lycan 


Delegates. 

L.   B.   Moseley 

M.    J.    Mulvihill.  .  .  . 

Charles    Banks 

L.   K.   Atwood 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 
i — James  M.   Dickey, 
J.    M.     Shumpert . 


2— J.     F. 

E.  H. 
3 — Louis 

Daniel 
4-J-  W. 


Butler  .  .  .  , 
McKissack .  . 
Waldauer. 
W.     Garey 
Bell.  , 


MISSISSIPPI. 


AT     LARGE. 


W.     W.     Phillips 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL  CONVENTION. 


73 


MISSISSIPPI.— Continued. 

McGov      Net 

DISTRICTS.— Delegates.  Root.       ern.        Voting. 

5— W.  J.  Price , 

A.    Buckley     ! 

6— J.    C.   Tyler , 

W.    P.    Locker ..  , 

7 — C.     R.     Ligon , 

E.    F.    Breenan ! 

8 — Wesley  Crayton l 

P.    W.    Howard ..  "i  " 

16  4 

MISSOURI. 
Delegates.  AT    LARGE. 

Herbert    S.    Hadley . .  , 

Jesse     A.     Tolerton l 

Walter   S.    Dickey ..  ,  " 

Hugh  Mclndoe . .  l 

DISTKI  CTS. — Delegates. 

x — Charles    E.    Rendlen . .  t 

Joseph    Moore . .  j 

a— E.     M.     Lomax . .  x 

A.   G.   Knight . .  t 

3 — H.    G.    Orton ; i 

H.  L.  Eads i 

4— Ralph    O.    Stuber ..  i 

James    S.    Shinabarger . .  i 

S — Homer    B.    Mann . .  i 

Ernest  R.  Sweeney . .  i 

6 — C.  A.   Denton . .  j 

C  H.  Williams  . . .  i 

7 — Richard    Johnson i 

Louis     Hoffman I 

8 — G.     A.     Brownfield ..  i 

Frank    A.    White . .  i 

9 — Oscar  A.   Meyersieck i 

Clarence  A.  Barnes i 

10 — Otto    F.    Stifel i 

Edmond     Koeln i 

x  i — Charles    R.    Graves x 

Henry  L.   Weeke i 

ia — Gus    Frey     i 

Henry  W.  Kiel.  . I 

13 — Politte    Elvins i 

John  H.    Reppy i 

14 — H.   Byrd  Duncan x 

George    S.    Green x 

15— C.     S.    Walden ..  i 

O.    P.    Moody . .  i 

16— Walter    W.    Durnell ..  i 

William    P.    Elmer . .  i 

16  a* 


74 


OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


Delegates. 
O.    M.    Lanstrum . 
Edward    Donlan 
D.    J.    Charles.  .   . 
George    T.    Baggs . 
Sam    Stephenson 
George  W.   Clay  .  . 
J.    C.    Kinney .   . 
A.    J.    Wilcomb.  . 


MONTANA. 


AT     LARGE. 


McGov-       Not 
Root.       ern.        Voting. 


Delegates. 

Don    L.    Love 

J.    J.    McCarthy 

Nathan   Merriam    .  .  .  . 

H.    E.    Sackett 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Julius    C.     Harpham 

William     Ernst      .   . 

a — J.     E.     Baum  .... 

John  W.  Towle .  .  . 

3 — Robert    E.    Evans  .   . 

David  Thomas    .  .  . 

4— George    W.    Neill .  . 

E.    L.    King 

5 — C.   A.    Luce 

A.     C.     Epperson  .   . 

6 — J.   P.   Gibbons.  .  .   . 

W.    H.    Reynolds.  . 


NEBRASKA. 


AT    LARGE. 


16 


NEVADA. 

Delegates.  AT   LARGE. 

R.     B.    Govan  

H.    V.    Moorehouse 

W.    W.    Williams 

E.    E.    Roberts    (By   C    H.    Ruborg,   alternate)  . 
George    S.    Nixon    (By   Albert   Karge,   alternate)  , 
M.     Badt . 


Delegates. 
Fr«d     W.     Estabrook , 


NEW    HAMPSHIRE. 

AT    LARGE. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  75 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE.— Continued. 

McGov-       Not 

Delegates.                                     AT  LARGE.  Root.       ern.        Voting. 

Lyford    A.    Merrow i 

Charles   M.    Floyd i 

Roland   H.    Spaulding i 

DI  STR  i  cxs. — Delegates. 

i — Hovey    E.    Slayton i 

Fernando    W.     Hartford i 

2 — Charles     Galeshedd i 

Orton    B.    Brown i 

8 
NEW   JERSEY. 

Delegates.  AT   LARGE. 

John    Franklin    Fort . .                i 

Everett    Colby     . .               i 

Edgar  B.   Bacon . .               i 

Frank   B.  Jess . .                i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — John    Boyd    Avis . .                i 

Duncan   W.   Blake,  Jr . .                i 

2 — Joseph  A.  Marvel . .                i 

Francis  D.  Potter . .                i 

3 — Adrian     Lyon . .                i 

Clarence    E.    F.    Hetrick . .               i 

4 — James  E.  Bathgate,  Jr . .                i 

John    E.    Gill . .               i 

5 — Charles    W.    Ennis . .                i 

Edgar    A.    Knapp . .                i 

6 — Herbert   M.    Bailey . .                i 

William    W.     Taylor ' . .                i 

7 — James    G.    Blauvelt . .                i 

Henry  C.   Whitehead . .                i 

8 — Louis    M.    Brock . .                i 

John    M.    Klein . .                i 

9 — William   A.    Lord . .                i 

Edward  T.  Ward ..                i 

10 — Frank    L.    Driver ..                i 

Edmund  B.  Osborne  (By  Harold  J.  Howland,  alternate)  . .                i 

1 1 — John    F.    Gardner . .                i 

Frederick    Vollmer,    Jr . .                i 

12 — George    L.    Record . .                i 

John     Rotherham . .                i 

28 
NEW  MEXICO. 

Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

Benigno    C.    Hernandes i 

Gregory    Page      i 

Frederico     Chavez . .                i 

J.    M.    Cunningham i 

E.    A.    Cahoon .                           i 


76  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

NEW  MEXICO.— Continued. 

McGov-       Not 
Delegates.  Root.        ern.        Voting. 

W.     D.     Murray i 

H.     O.     Burcun . .  i 

Hugo    Seaberg i 


NEW    YORK. 
Delegates.  AT   LARGE. 

Elihu   Root 

William     Barnes,     Jr 

Edwin  A.  Merritt,  Jr 

William    Berri     

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — William    Carr     

Smith  Cox 

2 — Theron  H.  Burden  (By  Gilbert  B.  Vorhies,  alternate) 

Frank    E.     Losee 

3 — David    Towle     

Alfred  E.   Vass 

4 — Timothy    L.    Woodruff 

William    A.    Prendergast 

5 — William    Berri    (By    Robert    Wellwood,    alternate)  .  . 

Alfred  T.  Hobley 

6— William     M.     Calder 

Lewis    M.     Swasey 

7 — Michael    J.    Dady 

Jacob  Brenner 

8 — Marcus    B.    Campbell 

Frederick     Linde      

9 — Thomas    B.    Lineburgh 

Rhinehard    H.    Pforr 

10 — Clarence    B.    Smith 

Jacob   L.    Holtzmann 

1 1 — George    Cromwell 

Chauncey   M.    Depew 

12— J.    VanVechten    Olcott 

Alexander     Wolf      

13 — James  E.   Mach 

Charles    H.     Murray 

14 — Samuel    S.    Koenig 

Frederick   C.   Tanner 

15 — Job    E.    Hedges 

Ezra   P.    Prentice 

16 — Otto  T.    Bannard 

Martin     Steinthal      

17 — Nicholas     Murray     Butler 

William  H.  Douglas 

18 — Ogden    L.     Mills 

Charles     L.     Bernheimer 

19 — Samuel    Strasbourger 

Louis    N.    Hammerling 

20 — Herbert    Parsons     

Samuel    Krulewitch     


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION. 


77 


NEW   YORK.— Continued. 

McGov-       Not 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates.  Root.        ern.        Voting. 

31 — Lloyd    C.     Griscom j 

Frank    K.     Bowers x 

22 — James    L.     Wells j 

Ernest    F.    Eilert I 

33 — Josiah    T.     Newcomb I 

Herman    T.    Redin i 

24 — Alexander  S.  Cochran    (By  John  H.  Nichols,   alternate)  i 

William    Archer . .  i 

25— William  L.  Ward ..  i 

John   J.    Brown . .  i 

26 — Joseph  M.  Dickey I 

Samuel   K.   Phillips i 

27 — Louis    F.    Payn i 

Martin    Cantine     i 

28 — James    H.    Perkins i 

Alba    M.    Ide j 

29 — Louis  W.   Emerson ,.....'.  i 

Cornelius   V.    Collins i 

30 — Lucius     N.     Littauer . .  i 

J.    Ledlie    Hees i 

31 — George     R.     Malby i 

John    H.    Moffitt i 

32 — Francis  M.  Hugo i 

Perry    G.    Williams . .  i 

33 — Judson  J.  Gilbert i 

William    S.    Doolittle i 

34 — George   W.    Fairchild i 

Lafayette    B.     Gleason i 

35 — Francis     Hendricks i 

James  M.  Gilbert i 

36 — Sereno   E.    Payne - i 

Albert    M.    Patterson i 

37 — Andrew  D.  White   (By  Elmer  Sherwood,  alternate)  .  i 

Alanson    B.    Houghton i 

38 — George    W.    Aldridge . .  i 

James    L.     Hotchkiss . .  i 

39 — James    W.    Wadsworth i 

Frederick     C.     Stevens i 

40 — William    H.    Daniels i  ..  .. 

James   S.    Simmons i 

41 — Charles     P.     Woltr i 

Nathan   Wolff    (By   George   P.    Urban,   alternate)  .  .  i 

42 — John     Grimm i 

Simon     Seibert i 

43 — Frank    Sullivan    Smith i 

Frank    O.    Anderson i 

76  13  i 

NORTH  CAROLINA. 
Delegates.  AT   LARGE. 

Zeb  V.  Walser i 

Richmond     Pearson i 


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OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 


NORTH    CAROLINA.— Continued. 

Delegates.  AT   LARGE. 

Thomas    E.    Owen 

Cyrus   Thompson 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 
i — Isaac    M.    Meekins 

Wheeler   Martin 

2 — Daniel    W.    Patrick 

George     W.     Stanton 

3 — Marion   Butler 

W.  S.  O'B.  Robinson 

4 — J.   C.   L.  Harris 

John    C.    Matthews 

5 — James    N.     Williamson 

John    T.    Benbow 

6— R.    S.    White 

D.    H.    Senter 

7 — C.   H.   Cowles 

J.  T.  Hedrick 

8 — Moses  N.   Harshaw 

W.    Henry   Hobson 

9 — S.    S.    McNinch 

Charles  E.   Green 

10 — A.    T.    Pritchard 

R.    H.    Staton 

NORTH  DAKOTA. 

Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

J.    H.    Cooper 

L.   B.   Garnaas 

August    E.    Johnson *. 

W.   S.   Lauder .  . 

A.    L.    Nelson 

Robert  M.  Pollock 

Emil    Scow 

P.  O.  Thorson 

O.     T.     Tofsrud 

T.  Twichell 

OHIO. 

I  Delegates.  AT   LARGE. 

Harry    M.    Daugherty 

Warren  G.   Harding 

David    J.    Cable 

Theodore  E.  Burton 

Arthur  I.  Vorys 

Charles   P.   Taft 


Root. 


McGov- 
ern. 


Not 
Voting. 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  79 

OHIO. — Continued. 

McGov-      Not 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates.  Root.  em.        Voting. 

i — Julius    Fleischmann i 

Sam    L.    Mayer i 

a— George  P.   Schott i 

Ray  J.  Hillenbrand i 

3 — Daniel    W.    Allaman i 

J.  Clinton  Hooven    (By  Gran.  M.  Kumler,  alternate)..  .  i 

4 — Carl  D.  Jones . .  i 

J.   C.  Pence . .  i 

5 — Allen   Bybee ' .  . .  i 

Frank   Carlo . .  i 

6 — Carroll  C.  Eulass I 

Robert  J.    Shawhan . .  i 

7 — John  L.   Bushnell i 

Isaac  K.  Funderburg  (By  Geo.  W.  Lindsay,  alternate)  . .  i 

8— N.    L.    MacLachlan ..  i 

Lewis    Slack . .  i 

9 — Carl  D.  Finch . .  i 

George  £.   Hardy . .  i 

10 — Sherman   H.    Eagle . .  i 

Phillip    M.    Streich . .  i 

1 1 — Henry  Zenner . .  i 

James  Thomas ..  i 

12 — Karl  T.  Webber ..  i 

King  G.  Thompson . .  i 

13 — Thomas    P.    Dewey ..  i 

Carl   J.    Gugler ..  i 

14 — Arthur   L.    Garford ..  i             .. 

H.   G.    Hammond . .  i 

15 — David   L.    Melick ..  i 

Arthur   C.    Smith . .  i 

1 6 — Emmett  E.   Erskine • ..  i 

Cook  Danford . .  i 

17 — Enos  S.   Souers ..  I 

Andrew    S.    Mitchell . .  i 

1 8 — Emil    J.    Anderson . .  i 

Harry   A.    March . .  i 

19— W.  J.  Beckley . .  i 

Edwin   Seedhouse . .  i 

20 — A.   D.   Ay  lard ..  I 

Joseph    H.    Speddy ..  i 

ai — J.  W.  Conger . .  i 

John   J.    Sullivan . .  i 

»4  34 
OKLAHOMA. 
Delegates.                                       AT   LARGE. 

Robert  McKeen 

George  H.   Brett 

Edd    Herrinn 

Allen   L.   McDonald 

L.    S.    Skelton  .  


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OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


OKLAHOMA.— Continutd. 

McGov-      Not 

Delegates.  Root.  ern.        Voting. 

Gilbert   Woods . .  i 

A.    E.    Perry . .  i 

Tom  Wall . .  i 

T.    H.    Dwyer ..  i 

Ewers  White . .  i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

I — George    M.    Dizney . .  i 

Dan   Norton . .  i 

2 — G.    A.    Paul ..  i 

H.    A.    Bower . .  i 

3 — Joseph    A.    Gill i 

J.   W.   Gilliland i 

4— C.    W.    Miller i 

G.    A.    Ramsey i 

5 — M.     A.    Tucker . .  i 

J.    R.    Eckles ..  i 

4  16 

OREGON. 
Delegates.  AT   LARGE. 

Charles    W.     Ackerson . .               i 

Daniel     Boyd . .               i 

Fred    S.    B ynon i 

Homer     C.     Campbell i 

Charles   H.    Carey ..                i 

Henry    Waldo    Coe ..               i 

D.    D.    Hail ..               i 

Thomas   McCusker . .              . .                x 

J.    N.    Smith i 

A.   V.    Swift ..               i 

3  6  i 

PENNSYLVANIA. 
Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

Ziba    T.    Moore 

H.    H.    Gilkyson 

William    P.    Young 

Robert   D.   Towne 

John    E.    Schiefley 

William    H.    Hackenberg 

George     R.     Scull 

Owen    C.    Underwood 

William    W.    Kincaid 

Lex  N.   Mitchell 

Fred  W.   Brown 

George    H.    Flinn 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Hugh    Black i 

William   S.    Vare .  .  i 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  81 

PENNSYLVANIA.— Continued. 

McGov-       Not 

DISTRICTS.— Delegates.  Root  ern         Voting. 

2 — E.   T.   Stotesbury   (By  Howard  B.   French,  alternate)  i 

John  Wanamaker   (By   Ed  R.   Wood,   alternate)  ...  i 

3 — J.    H.    Bromley , 

Harry    C.    Ransley , 

4 — H.     Horace     Dawson x 

Charles     F.     Freihofer l 

5 — William   Disston , 

John    T.    Murphy , 

6 — Samuel     Crothers      ! 

William    Draper   Lewis , 

7 — John    J.    Gheen , 

James    W.    Mercur x 

8— B.    C.    Foster ! 

C.    Tyson    Kratz , 

9 — William     W.     Griest x 

William    H.    Keller ,  "              [[ 

10 — John   Von   Bergen,  Jr . .  t 

Gro.   B.    Carson t .  x 

x  i — Stephen  J.  Hughes . .  j 

David     M.     Rosser . .  j 

12 — Thomas    R.    Edwards . .  x 

H.    D.    Lindermuth . .  ! 

13 — Fred    E.    Lewis . .  ! 

B.    Frank   Ruth ..  j 

14 — Bradley    W.    Lewis . .  i 

Dana    R.    Stephens . .  i 

15 — Harry    W.    Pyle . .  j 

Robert    K.     Young . .  j 

16 — A  very    Clinton    Sickles . .  j 

W.    H.     Unger ; . .  , 

17 — Thomas    A.    Appleby . .  i 

Charles     B.     Clayton . .  x 

18 — Harry    Hertzler     . .  i 

Charles    E.    Landis . .  i 

19 — W.     Lovell    Baldrige ..  i 

Mahlon    H.    Myers . .  i 

20— F.    H.    Beard ..  i 

Grier    Hersh I 

2i — E.    G.    Boose . .  i 

Guy    B.     Mayo . .  i 

22 — John    C.    Dight . .  i 

William    C.     Peoples . .  i 

23 — Harvey     M.     Berkeley . .  i 

Allen  F.   Cooper   (By  Geo.   W.   Newcomer,  alternate)  i 

24 — James     H.     Cunningham ..  i 

George    Davidson i 

25 — Phillip     J.     Barber . .  i 

Manley    O.    Brown . .  i 

26 — Leighton    C.    Scott . .  i 

William   Tonkin . .  i 

37— J-    W.    Foust ..  i 

Harry     W.     Truitt ..  i 


82 


OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 


PENNSYLVANIA.— Continued. 

DISTRICTS.- —  Delegates. 

28 — John    L.     Morrison 

J.     C.     Russell 

29— Judd    H.    Bruff 

Richard     R.     Quay 

30 — William   H.   Coleman 

Samuel     C.     Jamison 

31 — William   Flinn 

Charles    F.     Frazee 

32 — David     B.     Johns 

Louis  P.   Schneider 

RHODE  ISLAND. 
Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

Henry    F.    Lippitt 

George     R.     Lawton 

R.    H.    I.    Goddard,    Jr 

Herbert    W.    Rice 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — R.    Livingston   Beeckman 

Ezra    Dixon      

2 — George   B.   Waterhouse 

Frank     W.     Tillinghast 

3 — Harry     Cutler 

Volney  M.  Wilson,  Jr 

SOUTH  CAROLINA. 
Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

Joseph    W.    Tolbert 

J.   Duncan  Adams 

J.     R.     Levy 

W.    T.    Andrews 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Thomas  L.   Grant 

Aaron    P.    Prioleau 

2— W.  D.  Ramey 

W.    S.    Dixon 

3 — Ernest    F.    Cochran 

R.    R.    Tolbert,    Jr 

4 — Thomas     Brier 

Frank    J.    Young 

5 — John     F.     Jones 

C.    P.    T.    White 

6— J.    E.    Wilson 

J.    A.    Baxter 

7 — Alonzo     D.     Webster 

J.   H.    Goodwyn 


Root. 


McGov 
ern. 


Not 
Voting. 


64 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION. 


83 


SOUTH    DAKOTA. 

Delegates.  AT    LARGE. 

R.  S.  Bessey 

C.    L.    Dotson 

S.    X.    Way 

G.   C.   Redfield 

Alan   Bogue,  Jr 

A.     E.     Bossingham 

Isaac     Lincoln 

M.   G.   Carlisle 

William    Williamson     

Isaac    Emberson 

TENNESSEE. 

Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

Newell     Sanders     

Xen    Hicks 

John    J.    Gore 

John  W.   Ross 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 
i— Sam   R.    Sells 

R.   E.   Donnally 

2— T.   A.   Wright 

John  J.  Jennings,  Jr 

3 — H.    Clay    Evans 

John    H.    Early 

4 — George    T.     Renfro 

W.   A.    Smith : 

S— John   W.    Overall 

A.    V.    McLane 

6 — W.    D.    Howser 

J.     A.     Althauser 

7 — Marion    Richardson     

R.    S.    Hopkins 

8 — R.    M.    Murray 

J.    W.    Stewart 

9 — John    B.    Tarrant 

James  W.   Brown 

10— H.   O.  True 

R.    R.    Church,   Jr 

TEXAS. 

Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

H.  F.  McGregor 

W.    C.    Averille 

C.    K.     McDowell .  , 


McGov-       Not 
Root.        ern.         Voling. 


10 


84  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

TEXAS. — Continued. 

McGov-       Not 
Delegates.  AT   LARGE.  Root.        ern.        Voting. 

J.     E.     Lutz i 

J.    E.    Elgin i 

W.     H.     Love i 

W.   M.   McDonald i 

G.    W.    Burroughs i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Phil    E.    Baer i 

R.    B.    Harrison i 

2 — George  W.  Eason i 

C.    L.    Rutt i 

3 — F.    N.    Hopkins . .  . .  i 

J.   L.   Jackson . .  i 

4 — A.    L.    Dyer i 

M.    O.    Sharp i 

5 — Eugene    Marshall     i 

Harry    Beck I 

6 — J.   Allen   Myers i 

Rube    Freedman . .  i 

7 — J.     H.     Hawley i 

H.   L.   Price i 

8— C.   A.   Warnken i 

Spencer    Graves i 

9— C.    M.    Hughes i 

M.   M.    Rodgers i 

10 — H.   M.    Moore i 

F.    L.    Welch i 

1 1 — T.     J.     Darling i 

B.  C.     Ward i 

12 — Eugene   Greer    (By    Sam   Davidson,   alternate).   ...  ..  i 

C.  C.    Littleton i 

13 — W.    H.    Featherston ..  i 

F.    H.    Hill . .  i 

14 — J.   M.   Oppenheimer •. i 

John   Hall i 

15— J-    C.    Scott ..  i 

T.    J.    Martin . .  I 

16— L.    S.    McDowell i 

U.     S.     Stewart . .  i 


UTAH. 
Delegates.  AT   LARGE. 

Joseph    Howell     

George    Sutherland 

Reed    Smoot     

William     Spry 

Jacob    Johnson     

C.   E.    Loose 

James    M.    Peterson 

C.     R.     Hollingsworth 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION. 


85 


VERMONT. 

Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

Carroll    S.    Page 

J.   Gray    Estey • .   . 

John  L.   Lewis 

John  A.   Mead 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — William    R.    Warner 

John   L.    South  wick 

2 — E.  W.  Gibson 

Frank    D.    Thompson 

VIRGINIA. 

Delegates.  AT   LARGE. 

C.   B.   Slemp 

Alvah    H.    Martin 

R.    H.    Angell 

R.  E.  Cabell 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 
i — Clarence  G.  Smithers 

George     R.     Mould 

2 — D.   Lawrence   Groner 

P.    J.    Riley 

3 — Joseph    P.    Brady 

W.    R.    Vawter 

4— H.    C.    Willson 

W.  B.  Alfred •   •   •  • 

5— S.    Floyd    Landreth .   .  . 

A.     H.     Staples .  .  . 

6— S.  H.   Hoge 

J.   E.   B.    Smith 

7 — John  Paul 

R.   J.    Walker 

8 — Joseph    L.    Crupper 

M.    K.    Lowery 

9 — L.   P.   Summers 

A.    P.    Crockett 

10 — George    A.    Revercomb 

R.    A.    Fulwiler 


Root. 


McGor- 
ern. 


Not 

Voting. 


Delegates. 
Howard    Cosgrove  , 
R.  W.  Condon  .  .  , 
E.    B.    Benn .  .  . 
William    Jones 


WASHINGTON. 


AT     LARGE. 


86 


OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 


WASHINGTON.— Continued. 

Delegates.  AT     LARGE. 

\V.    T.    Dovell 

Peter    Mutty 

M.    E.    Field 

A.    D.    Sloane 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Hugh   Eldridge 

Patrick  Halloran 

2— F.   H.   Coliins 

E.    n.    Hubbard 

3— C.    C.    Case 

\V.     X.     Devine 

WEST  VIRGINIA. 

I>CIC£>:1C.<.  AT     LARGE. 

\\'illiam    E.    Giasscock 

Wiliiam    P.    Hubbard 

Samuel    B.    Montgomery 

\Villiam    Seymour    Edwards 

Charles    A.    Swesringen 

David    B.    Smith 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 
i  —  S.     G.     Smith 

Harry    Shaw 

2 — William     H.     Somers 

Tames    P.    Fitch 

3— E.     W.     Martin 

M.    J.     Simms 

4 — Amos   Bright 

\V.     S.     Sugden  

5 — Thomas   Kay   Laing 

Edward    Cooper     


Root. 


McGo-. 
ern. 


.Vot 
doling. 


6 


WISCONSIN. 


Aniirew     K.     Dahl  .... 
Walter   L.    Houser  .    .   .   . 
Alvin    P.    Kletzsch  .   .    .   .    , 
Francis    E.    McGovern  .   . 
DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 
i — Sidney    C.    Goff  ... 
Walter    S.     Goodland 
i— Charles     W.      Pfeifer  , 

Les  ie   A.    W:ight  .   . 
3— Michael    B.   Olbrich  .   . 
William     I.     Pearce  .   . 


Louder.    Gronna 


Not 

Voting. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION. 


87 


WISCONSIN.— Continued. 

McGov-  Not 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates.  ern.    Louder.    Gronna.    Voting. 

4 — Christian   Doerfler i 

John  C.  Kleczka i 

5 — Henry   F.    Cochems i 

William   P.  Jobse i 

6— Wilbur  E.   Hurlbut i 

William     Mauthe i 

7 — Oscar   W.    Schoengarth i 

James    A.     Stone i 

8— Arthur    W.     Prehn i 

Eli     E.     Winch i 

9 — Samuel    H.    Cady i 

Lewis    L.    Johnson i 

10 — Henry  S.  Comstock i 

Walter    C.    Owen i 

ii — David     C.     Jones i 

Albert    W.     Sanborn i 

12  12  I  I 

WYOMING. 

McGov-      Not 

Delegates.                                  AT    LARGE.  Root.        ern.        Voting. 

F.    E.    Warren i 

C.    D.    Clark i 

F.    W.    Mondell i 

W.     F.     Walls i 

Patrick    Sullivan i 

W.    II.    Huntley i 

6 

ALASKA. 
Delegates.  AT   LARGE. 

Jafet  Lindberg   (By  W.  H.  Haggatt,  alternate) i 

L.   P.    Shackleford i 

2 

DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA. 
Delegates.  AT   LARGE. 

Aaron    Bradshaw i 

William     Calvin     Chase i 

3 

HAWAII. 
Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

Walter    F.    Frear i 

Jonah  K.  Kalanianaole   (By  Antonio  Q.  Marcallino,  Alt.)  i 

George   F.   Renton . .  ' 


88  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

HAWAII.— Continued. 

McGov-      Not 
Delegates.  Root.       ern.        Voting. 

John    T.    Moir . .  ! 

Harry  A.  Baldwin .  .  j 

Charles  A.    Rice  .  , 


PHILIPPINE  ISLANDS. 
Delegates.  AT  LARGE. 

John    M.    Switzer 

T.    L.    Hartigan 


PORTO    RICO. 
Delegates.  AT   LARGE. 

Mateo    Fajardo 

Sosthenes    Behn 


The  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. — The  vote  as  announced  discloses 
that  a  majority  of  the  delegates  have  voted  for  Senator  Root.  I  now 
have  the  privilege  and  the  honor  to  present  to  you  your  Temporary  Chair- 
man, Hon.  Elihu  Root.  (Applause.) 

MR.  ELIHU  ROOT,  of  New  York,  thereupon  took  the  chair  amid  great 
applause. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Receiver  of  stolen  goods ! 

MR.  ZIBA  T.  MOORE,  of  Pennsylvania. — Are  you  willing  to  take  a 
nomination  that  was  stolen?  You  did  not  think  so  in  1905  when  you  were 
in  Philadelphia  and  advised  the  prosecution  of  the  people  of  whom  you  are 
now<the  tool. 

MR.  R.  R.  QUAY,  of  Pennsylvania. — Receiver  of  stolen  goods ! 

CAPTAIN  OF  POLICE. — This  is  a  plain  breach  of  the  peace,  and  we  will 
not  stand  for  it.  v 

MR.  QUAY,  of  Pennsylvania. — You  are  a  protector  of  stolen  goods! 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Root  advised  the  prosecution 
of  the  very  people  for  whom  he  is  now  willing  to  act  as  a  tool. 

ADDRESS  OF  THE  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN  (Mr.  Elihu  Root,  of  New  York). — Gen- 
tlemen of  the  Convention :  Believe  that  I  appreciate  this  expression  of 
confidence.  I  wish  I  were  more  competent  for  the  service  you  require  of 
me. 

The  struggle  for  leadership  in  the  Republican  party  which  has  so 
long  engrossed  the  attention  and  excited  the  feelings  of  its  members  is 
about  to  be  determined  by  the  selection  of  a  candidate.  The  varying 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  89 

claims  of  opinion  for  recognition  in  the  political  creed  of  the  party  are 
about  to  be  settled  by  the  adoption  of  a  platform. 

The  supreme  council  of  the  party  in  this  great  National  Convention, 
representing  every  State  and  Territory  in  due  proportion,  according  to 
rules  long  since  established,  is  about  to  appeal  to  the  American  people  for 
a  continuance  of  the  power  of  government  which  the  party  has  exercised 
with  but  brief  interruptions  for  more  than  half  a  century,  and  that  appeal 
is  to  be  based  upon  the  soundness  of  the  principles  approved,  and  the 
qualities  of  the  candidates  selected  by  the  Convention. 

In  the  performance  of  this  duty  by  the  Convention,  and  in  the  ac- 
ceptance of  its  conclusions  by  Republicans,  is  to  be  applied  the  ever-recur- 
ring test  of  a  party's  fitness  to  govern,  its  coherence  and  its  formative  and 
controlling  power  of  organization.  And  these  depend  upon  the  willing- 
ness of  the  members  of  the  party  to  subordinate  their  varying  individual 
opinions  and  postpone  the  matters  of  difference  between  them  in  order 
that  they  may  act  in  unison  upon  the  great  questions  wherein  they  agree; 
upon  their  willingness  and  capacity  to  thrust  aside  the  disappointment 
which  some  of  them  must  always  feel  in  failing  to  secure  success  for  the 
candidates  of  their  preference;  upon  the  loyalty  of  party  members  to  the 
party  itself,  to  the  great  organization  whose  agency  in  government  they 
believe  to  be  for  the  best  interests  of  the  nation,  and  for  whose  continu- 
ance in  power  their  love  of  country  constrains  them  to  labor. 

Without  these  things  there  can  be  no  party  worthy  of  the  name. 
Without  them  party  association  is  a  rope  of  sand,  party  organization  is 
an  ineffective  form,  party  responsibility  disappears,  and  with  it  disappears 
the  right  to  public  confidence. 

Without  organized  parties,  having  these  qualities  of  coherence  and 
loyalty,  free  popular  government  becomes  a  confused  and  continual  con- 
flict between  a  vast  multitude  of  individual  opinions,  individual  interests, 
individual  attractions  and  repulsions,  from  which  effective  government 
can  emerge  only  by  answering  to  the  universal  law  of  necessary  organi- 
zation and  again  forming  parties. 

Throughout  our  party's  history  in  each  Presidential  election  we  have 
gone  to  the  American  people  with  the  confident  and  just  assertion  that 
the  Republican  party  is  not  a  mere  fortuituous  collection  of  individuals, 
but  is  a  coherent  and  living  force  as  an  organization.  It  is  effective,  re- 
sponsible, worthy  of  confidence,  competent  to  govern.  The  traditions  of  its 
great  struggles  for  liberty,  for  the  supremacy  of  law,  for  the  preservation 
of  constitutional  government,  for  national  honor,  exercise  a  controlling 
influence  upon  its  conduct.  The  lofty  purpose  of  its  great  originators  has 
been  transmitted  by  spiritual  succession  from  generation  to  generation  of 
party  leaders,  and  it  is  no  idle  rhetoric  when  we  say,  as  we  have  so  often 
said  and  are  about  to  say  again  to  the  American  people : 

"We  are  entitled  to  your  belief  in  the  sincerity  of  the  principles  we 


90  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF  THE 

profess  and  the  loyalty  of  our  candidates  to  those  principles,  because  we 
are  the  party  of  Lincoln,  and  Sumner,  and  Seward,  and  Andrew,  and 
Morton,  and  Grant,  and  Hayes,  and  Garfield,  and  Arthur,  and  Harrison, 
and  Elaine,  and  Hoar,  and  McKinley." 

We  claim  that  we  are  entitled  to  a  popular  vote  of  confidence  at  the 
coming  election  because  we  have  demonstrated  that  we  are  the  party  of 
affirmative,  constructive  policies  for  the  betterment  and  progress  of  our 
country  in  all  the  fields  upon  which  the  activity  and  influence  of  govern- 
ment can  rightly  enter.  We  claim  it  because  we  have  shown  ourselves  a 
party  of  honest,  efficient,  and  economical  administration  in  which  public 
monies  are  faithfully  applied,  appointments  are  made  on  grounds  of  merit, 
efficient  service  is  rigorously  exacted,  graft  is  reduced  to  a  minimum, 
derelictions  from  official  duty  are  sternly  punished,  and  a  high  standard 
of  official  morality  is  maintained.  We  claim  it  because  we  have  main- 
tained and  promoted  peace  with  the  world,  and  the  dignity,  honor,  and 
just  interests  of  the  United  States  among  the  nations.  We  claim  it  be- 
cause our  party  stands  now,  as  it  has  ever  stood,  for  order  and  liberty 
and  for  the  maintenance  of  the  constitutional  system  of  government 
through  which  a  self-controlled  democracy  for  more  than  a  century  has 
established  against  all  detractors  the  competency  of  the  American  people 
to  govern  themselves  in  law-abiding  prosperity. 

We  challenge  the  judgment  of  the  American  people  on  the  policies  of 
McKinley  and  Roosevelt  and  Taft. 

President  Taft,  in  his  speech  of  acceptance  on  the  28th  of  July,  1908, 
paid  a  just  tribute  to  the  great  service  rendered  by  his  predecessor  in 
awakening  the  public  conscience,  inaugurating  reforms,  and  saving  the 
country  from  the  dangers  of  a  plutocratic  government.  He  instanced 
the  Railroad-rate  Law,  the  prevention  of  railroad  rebates  and  discrimina- 
tions, the  enforcement  of  the  Anti-trust  Law,  the  Pure-food  Law,  the 
Meat-inspection  Law,  the  general  supervision  and  control  of  transporta- 
tion companies,  the  conservation  of  natural  resources,  and  he  proceeded 
to  say : 

"The  chief  function  of  the  next  Administration,  in  my  judg- 
ment, is  distinct  from  and  a  progressive  development  of  that  which 
has  been  performed  by  President  Roosevelt.  The  chief  function  of 
the  next  Administration  is  to  complete  and  perfect  the  machinery  by 
which  these  standards  may  be  maintained  by  which  the  law  breakers 
may  be  promptly  restrained  and  punished,  but  which  shall  operate 
with  sufficient  accuracy  and  dispatch  to  interfere  with  legitimate 
business  as  little  as  possible." 

There  spoke  the  voice  of  two  Republican  Administrations,  and  the 
promise  of  that  declaration  has  been  faithfully  observed  with  painstaking 
and  assiduous  care.  The  Republican  Administration  which  is  now  draw- 
ing to  a  close  has  engaged  in  completing  and  perfecting  the  machinery, 


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in  applying  the  standards  and  working  out  the  practical  results  of  estab- 
lished Republican  policies,  including  also  the  McKinley  policies  of  a 
protective  tariff  and  sound  finance.  Service  of  this  kind  is  not  spectacular. 
It  receives  little  public  attention  and  little  credit  until  the  public  mind  is 
turned  to  a  careful  study  of  the  subject,  but  it  is  of  the  highest  impor- 
tance. Great  constructive  national  policies  are  not  established  by  simple 
declaration  or  mere  legislation  or  in  a  single  day  or  in  a  single  year. 
They  always  change  conditions  in  order  to  better  them.  They  encounter 
inveterate  abuses.  They  are  opposed  and  evaded  in  practice.  They  require 
to  be  applied  and  enforced  by  a  strong  hand  and  a  firm  will.  They  re- 
quire to  be  perfected  by  administration  and  supplemental  legislation. 
Under  Republican  Administrations  there  has  been  one  unbroken,  continu- 
ous course  of  consistent  policy  and  effective  performance  in  dealing  with 
the  evils  which  have  been  naturally  incident  to  the  amazing  industrial 
changes  of  our  generation,  the  vast  creation  of  new  wealth,  the  increase 
of  our  population  and  the  expansion  of  our  commerce.  It  rests  with  the 
American  electorate  to  say  whether  they  will  permit  those  minor  dissatis- 
factions which  are  inseparable  from  all  human  performance  and  the  de- 
sire for  change  by  which  all  men  are  sometimes  affected,  to  obscure  in 
their  judgments  the  wisdom  of  continuing  the  execution  of  these  policies 
and  the  evil  of  chartering  another  and  untried  party  for  a  new  departure 
in  governmental  experiment. 

The  Republican  party  stands  now,  as  McKinley  stood,  for  a  pro- 
tective tariff,  while  the  Democratic  party  stands  against  the  principle  of 
protection  and  for  a  tariff  for  revenue  only.  We  stand  not  for  the 
abuses  of  the  tariff  but  for  the  beneficent  uses.  No  tariff  can  be  devised 
so  moderate,  so  reasonable,  that  it  will  not  be  rejected  by  the  Democratic 
party,  provided  its  duties  be  adjusted  with  reference  to  labor  cost  so  as 
to  protect  American  products  against  being  driven  out  of  the  market  by 
foreign  underselling  made  possible  through  the  lower  rate  of  wages  in 
other  countries.  The  American  foreign  merchant  service  has  been  driven 
off  the  face  of  the  waters  because  with  American  sailors'  wages  and  the 
American  standard  of  living  it  could  not  compete  with  foreign  shipping. 
The  Democratic  party  proposes  to  put  American  mills  and  factories  and 
mines  in  the  same  position,  and  the  American  people  have  now  to  say 
whether  they  wish  that  to  be  done.  I  have  said  that  we  do  not  stand 
for  the  abuses  of  the  tariff.  The  chief  cause  of  abuse  has  been  that  we 
have  outgrown  our  old  method  of  tariff  making.  Our  productive  indus- 
tries have  become  too  vast  and  complicated,  our  commercial  relations 
too  extensive,  for  any  committee  of  Congress  of  itself  to  get  at  the  facts 
to  which  the  principle  of  protection  may  be  properly  applied.  The  Re- 
publican party  proposes  to  remedy  this  defective  method  through  having 
the  facts  ascertained  by  an  impartial  commission  through  thorough,  scien- 
tific investigation,  so  that  the  President  and  Congress  shall  have  the  basis 


92  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

for  the  just  application  of  the  principle  of  protection.  The  Republican 
Congress  included  in  the  Payne-Aldrich  Bill  a  clause  under  which  the 
President  had  authority  to  appoint  such  a  board  to  make  such  investiga- 
tions and  report  the  results  to  him.  The  President  appointed  the  board. 
Its  members  are  drawn  from  both  political  parties.  Their  competency, 
integrity,  and  fairness  is  unquestioned.  They  have  reported  upon  the 
Woolen  schedule;  they  have  reported  upon  the  Cotton  schedule.  The 
President  has  transmitted  their  findings  to  Congress.  The  Democratic 
House  of  Representatives  ignores  and  repudiates  them.  In  January, 
1911,  the  last  Republican  House  of  Representatives  passed  a  bill  to  create 
a  tariff  commission  with  much  broader  and  more  effective  powers  for 
compelling  the  attendance  of  witnesses  and  securing  information,  charged 
to  report  its  findings  to  the  Congress.  The  bill  passed  the  Senate  with 
some  amendment  but  it  was  delayed  there  by  an  avowed  Democratic 
filibuster  until  it  reached  the  House  so  late  in  the  session  that  a  vote  upon 
it  was  prevented  by  another  Democratic  filibuster  in  the  House.  Now 
the  House  is  Democratic  and  the  Tariff  Commission  bill  is  dead.  The 
Democratic  party  does  not  want  the  facts  upon  which  a  just  protective 
measure  can  be  framed,  because  they  mean  that  there  shall  be  no  protec- 
tion for  American  industries.  In  the  last  session  and  in  the  present  ses- 
sion of  Congress  the  Democratic  House  has  framed  and  passed  a  series 
of  tariff  bills  for  revenue  only,  with  complete  indifference  to  the  absolute 
destruction  that  their  enactment  would  bring  upon  great  American  indus- 
tries. Some  of  them  have  fallen  by  the  wayside  in  the  Senate  and  some 
of  them  have  gone  to  the  President  to  meet  his  wise  and  courageous  veto. 
The  American  people  have  now  to  pass,  not  upon  the  abuses  of  the  tariff, 
but  upon  the  fundamental  question  between  the  two  systems  of  tariff 
making. 

The  national  currency,  which  the  election  of  McKinley  rescued  from 
disaster  at  the  hands  of  a  Free  Silver  Democracy,  still  rests  upon  the  Civil 
War  basis  of  government  bonds,  and  is  no  longer  adapted  to  our  changed 
conditions.  It  is  inelastic;  its  volume  does  not  expand  and  contract  ac- 
cording to  legitimate  demands  of  business.  It  subjects  us  to  constant 
danger  of  panics  which  begin  in  speculation  and  end  in  paralyzing  busi- 
ness. It  facilitates  and  promotes  the  arbitrary  control  of  a  small  group 
of  banks  and  bankers  with  enormous  capital,  and  tends  to  an  undue 
concentration  of  the  money  of  the  country  in  a  few  great  money  centers. 
Any  possible  remedy  involves  the  study  of  world-wide  finance,  because 
we  are  no  longer  isolated  and  money  flows  from  city  to  city  and  country 
to  country  in  accordance  with  the  laws  of  demand  and  supply  and  the 
attraction  of  interest  rates.  No  Congress  could  by  its  ordinary  methods 
get  beyond  the  surface  of  the  vast  and  complicated  problem,  yet  the 
working  out  of  a  new  system  adapted  to  American  conditions  is  of  vital 
importance  to  the  prosperity  of  the  country  and  the  security  of  every 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  93 

business  and  of  every  man  whose  support  is  directly  or  indirectly  de- 
pendent upon  American  business.  For  the  solution  of  this  question  the 
policy  of  the  Republican  party  established  a  Monetary  Commission, 
which  has  made  a  most  thorough  and  exhaustive  study  of  the  financial 
systems  of  all  civilized  nations,  of  their  relations  to  our  own  system,  and 
for  the  establishment  of  a  new  system  of  reserve  associations  under  which 
the  currency  will  be  elastic,  the  business  of  the  country  will  find  ready 
sale  for  its  commercial  paper,  the  people  of  the  country  at  large  will 
exercise  control  instead  of  a  little  group  of  large  bankers,  and  the  danger 
of  panics  will  disappear.  The  President  has  recommended  the  conclusions 
of  the  Commission  to  the  Congress,  where  the  proposed  bill  is  under 
consideration.  It  is  for  the  interest  of  every  business  man  in  the  United 
States  that  the  party  controlling  the  government  shall  not  be  changed  until 
this  policy  has  been  carried  into  execution. 

In  order  that  the  burdens  of  government  support  may  in  time  of 
need  be  more  justly  proportioned  to  the  means  of  our  citizens,  the  last 
Republican  Congress  submitted  to  the  legislatures  of  the  States  an  In- 
come Tax  amendment  of  the  constitution,  and  at  the  same  time,  upon 
the  recommendation  of  the  President,  enacted  a  law — which  has  been 
sustained  by  the  Supreme  Court — imposing  a  tax  upon  corporations, 
measured  by  their  income,  so  that  this  vast  fund  of  invested  capital 
may  bear  its  fair  share  of  the  public  burdens.  At  the  rate  of  only  one 
per  cent,  upon  corporate  income,  the  receipts  from  this  source  during  the 
past  year  amounted  to  over  thirty  million  dollars. 

Upon  the  recommendation  of  the  President  the  powers  of  the  Inter- 
state Commerce  Commission  have  been  greatly  enlarged  and  their  con- 
trol over  railroad  rates  and  railroad  service  made  more  effective.  Rail- 
road rebates  have  been  vigorously  prosecuted  and  the  imposition  of  large 
fines  has  substantially  ended  the  practice.  Upon  prosecutions  of  railroad 
discriminations  and  fraudulent  importations  at  the  Custom  House,  under 
the  vigorous  treatment  of  the  Treasury  Department  and  the  Department 
of  Justice,  the  fines  and  recoveries  of  the  past  three  years  have  amounted 
to  over  nine  million  dollars. 

The  prosecution  of  trusts  and  combinations  in  violation  of  the  Sher- 
man Act  has  proceeded  with  extraordinary  vigor  and  success.  The  Stand- 
ard Oil  Company  has  been  dissolved  by  a  suit  begun  under  Roosevelt 
and  brought  to  a  successful  conclusion  under  Taft  through  a  judgment  in 
exact  accordance  with  the  prayer  of  the  complainant.  The  Tobacco 
Company  has  been  dissolved  and  its  property  scattered  among  fourteen 
different  companies,  with  stringent  injunctions  against  common  control, 
which,  in  the  unanimous  opinion  of  the  four  judges  of  the  Circuit  Court 
of  Appeals,  were  fully  adequate  to  accomplish  the  relief  demanded. 
The  beef  packers,  the  wholesale  grocers,  the  lumber  dealers,  the  wire 
makers,  the  window  glass  pool,  the  electric  lamp  combination,  the  bath 


94  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 

tub  trust,  the  shoe  machinery  trust,  the  foreign  steamship  pool,  the  Sugar 
company,  the  Steel  corporation,  the  Harvester  company — all  have  been 
made  to  feel  the  heavy  hand  of  the  law  through  suits  or  indictments 
against  restraints  and  monopolies. 

Throughout  that  wide  field  in  which  the  conditions  of  modern  indus- 
trial life  require  that  government  shall  intervene  in  the  name  of  social 
justice  for  the  protection  of  the  wage  earner,  the  Republican  National 
Administrations,  in  succession  have  done  their  full,  enlightened,  and 
progressive  duty  to  the  limit  of  the  national  power  under  the  constitu- 
tion. The  Act  of  March  4,  1907,  to  regulate  the  hours  of  service  of 
railroad  employees,  passed  under  the  Roosevelt  Administration,  has  been 
sustained  in  the  Supreme  Court  under  the  Taft  Administration  and  has 
been  enforced  by  more  than  fifteen  hundred  prosecutions  during  the  past 
three  years.  A  valid  and  effective  Employers'  Liability  Act  applying  to 
all  interstate  commerce  was  passed  by  a  Republican  Congress  on  the 
5th  of  April,  1910,  and  under  the  Republican  Administration  its  constitu- 
tionality has  been  sustained  in  the  Supreme  Court.  Upon  the  President's 
recommendation  a  joint  commission  was  created  by  Congress  to  study 
the  subject  of  workmen's  compensation  for  injuries.  It  was  composed  of 
members  of  both  Houses,  with  a  representative  of  the  railroads  and  a 
representative  of  labor,  and  after  exhaustive  examination  and  hearings  the 
commission  framed  a  bill  which  was  approved  by  all  the  great  railroad 
labor  organizations  and  which  was  passed  by  a  Republican  Senate  at 
the  present  session  against  the  opposition  of  a  majority  of  the  Demo- 
cratic Senators.  That  bill  still  slumbers  in  the  Democratic  Judiciary  Com- 
mittee of  the  House.  The  Safety  Appliance  Act  has  been  strengthened  by 
increased  powers  in  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  and  has  been 
enforced  by  nearly  a  thousand  prosecutions  during  the  past  three  years. 
The  joint  representative  of  the  great  orders  of  Railway  Conductors,  Rail- 
way Trainmen,  Locomotive  Engineers,  and  Locomotive  Firemen  and 
Enginemen  says  in  his  report  on  National  Legislation  for  1911  regard- 
ing that  department  of  the  present  National  Administration  especially 
concerned  in  the  enforcement  of  these  laws : 

"Justice  to  one  who  has  been  faithful  to  his  trust  demands  from 
every  representative  of  the  railroad  men  of  the  United  States  some 
recognition  of  the  splendid  work  of  the  Attorney-General  in  the 
enforcement  of  all  the  acts  of  Congress  relating  to  the  safety  of  rail- 
road employees,  and  limiting  their  hours  of  service.  It  has  been 
work  faithfully  and  successfully  performed.  Both  in  the  defense  of 
our  rights  in  the  Courts  and  in  assistance  rendered  us  in  the  prepara- 
tion of  proposed  legislation,  his  work  has  been  of  a  high  order  of 
ability  and  has  been  tendered  in  a  spirit  of  fidelity  to  the  basic  prin- 
ciples of  fair  play  to  all  men." 
The  newly  created  Bureau  of  Mines  and  the  newly  authorized  Chit- 


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dren's  Bureau  mark  the  limit  to  which  the  National  Government  can  go 
towards  improving  the  conditions  of  intrastate  labor  without  usurping 
the  powers  of  the  States.  The  Pure  Food  Law  has  been  enforced  with 
vigor  and  effectiveness.  There  have  been  over  five  hundred  prosecutions 
for  violations  of  that  law  within  the  past  year  and  more  than  a  thousand 
cases  within  the  past  three  years.  More  than  five  hundred  shipments  of 
adulterated  and  misbranded  foods  and  drugs  have  been  condemned  and 
forfeited,  and  enormous  quantities  of  injurious  food  material  have  been 
destroyed. 

The  conservation  of  natural  resources  has  been  in  the  hands  of  its 
friends.  The  process  of  examining  and  separating  the  timber  and  the 
agricultural  land  in  the  great  forest  reserves,  established  at  the  close  of 
the  last  Administration,  has  proceeded  under  the  present  Administration 
in  accordance  with  the  original  plan.  The  study  of  the  water  resources 
of  the  country  and  the  recording  of  the  flow  of  streams  have  gone  on 
under  the  Geological  Survey.  Classification  and  appraisal  of  coal  lands 
and  their  restoration  to  entry  at  discriminating  prices  based  upon  the 
classification  has  been  extended  to  over  sixteen  million  acres  of  a  total 
valuation  of  over  seven  hundred  and  twelve  million  dollars.  The  enormous 
petroleum  deposits  aqd  phosphate  deposits  and  water  power  sites  belonging 
to  the  government  have  been  examined  and  classified  and  the  data  pre- 
pared for  the  needed  legislation  to  regulate  their  disposition.  Construc- 
tion under  the  arid  land  reclamation  projects  has  been  pressed  forward, 
and  over  fifty  thousand  people  are  now  living  upon  the  reclaimed  land. 

Great  reforms  have  been  made  in  the  economy  of  the  public  service. 
A  commission  appointed  by  the  President  has  been  examining  all  the 
departments  of  government  operating  under  the  antiquated  statutes 
passed  generations  ago  with  a  view  to  applying  in  them  the  labor-saving 
and  money-saving  methods  which  have  made  the  success  of  the  great 
business  establishments  of  our  country.  In  the  Treasury  Department 
-alone,  where  the  reforms  first  received  their  effect  and  can  best  be  meas- 
ured, over  eighteen  hundred  places  have  been  abolished,  and  this  with 
increased  efficiency  of  service,  and  without  discharging  any  one  but  simply 
t>y  not  filling  vacancies  as  they  occurred.  The  savings  effected  in  the 
administration  of  this  one  department  amount  approximately  to  $2,631,000 
per  annum.  The  same  policy  in  the  Post  Office  Department  has  made 
that  department  self-supporting  for  the  first  time  in  thirty  years,  and  has 
•changed  a  deficit  of  $17,479,770.47  in  1909,  caused  especially  by  the  in- 
creased cost  of  rural  free  delivery,  to  a  surplus  of  $219,118.12  in  1911. 
In  the  meantime  the  great  Republican  policy  of  rural  free  delivery  has 
"been  advanced  so  that  the  rural  free  delivery  routes  now  number  42,199, 
covering  a  mileage  of  1,210,447  miles.  In  the  meantime  also  the  new 
Republican  policy  of  the  postal  savings  system  has  been  successfully  in- 
augurated under  the  Act  of  June  25,  1910,  beginning  experimentally  with 


96  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

a  few  offices,  and  now,  after  eleven  months  of  operation,  extending  to 
seventy-five  hundred  Presidential  post  offices  and  $11,000,000  of  deposits. 
The  Army  has  been  made  more  efficient  The  great  process  of  training 
not  only  the  regular  army  but  the  militia  by  means  of  officers  of  instruc- 
tion and  joint  operations  has  been  pressed  forward  to  the  end  that  if 
war  unfortunately  comes  upon  us  we  shall  have,  for  the  first  time  in  our 
history,  a  great  body  of  trained  American  citizens  competent  to  act  as 
officers  of  the  volunteer  force  upon  which  we  must  so  largely  depend  for 
our  military  defense.  The  test  of  mobilization  of  the  regular  army 
in  Texas  during  the  summer  of  1911,  with  its  rapidity  of  movement  and 
freedom  from  disease,  has  exhibited  a  record  of  competency  and  ability 
most  reassuring  and  satisfactory. 

The  Navy  has  improved  its  organization  and  decreased  its  expenses, 
has  increased  its  preparedness  and  military  efficiency,  has  improved  its 
marksmanship  and  skill  in  seamanship  and  evolution,  and  has  reorgan- 
ized and  reduced  the  cost  of  the  system  of  construction,  repair,  and 
supply. 

The  execution  of  the  regular  and  established  program  of  adding  two 
battleships  to  the  fleet  annually  to  take  the  place  of  the  old  ships  which 
from  year  to  year  grow  obsolete,  and  to  maintain  the  position  of  our 
Navy  among  those  of  the  great  powers,  has  met  with  a  reverse  hi  the 
refusal  of  the  Democratic  House  of  Representatives  to  appropriate  any 
money  for  the  construction  of  battleships,  and  the  question  now  stands 
between  the  Republican  Senate  and  the  Democratic  House  as  to  whether 
our  Navy  shall  be  maintained  or  shall  be  permitted  to  fall  back  to  a  level 
with  the  weaker  and  unconsidered  countries  of  the  world.  What  is  the 
will  of  the  American  People  on  that  question? 

The  construction  of  the  Panama  Canal  has  been  pressed  forward 
with  renewed  evidences  under  the  concentrated  observation  of  all  the 
civilized  world,  that  America  possesses  constructive  genius,  organizing 
power  and  habits  of  honest  administration,  equal  to  the  greatest  under- 
takings. It  is  manifest  now  that  the  work  will  be  done  in  advance  of 
the  time  fixed  and  within  the  cost  estimated,  and  that  during  the  coming 
year  it  will  be  substantially  completed.  Will  not  the  American  people 
consider  whether  they  have  no  grateful  appreciation  of  the  honor  brought 
to  us  all  by  the  great  thing  that  has  been  done  on  the  Isthmus?  When 
the  wonderful  procession  of  ships  takes  its  way  for  the  first  time  through 
the  canal  between  the  waters  of  the  Atlantic  and  the  Pacific,  will  tEe 
people  of  America  wish  that  the  honors  of  that  greater  than  a  Roman 
triumph  be  given,  not  to  the  men  who  executed  the  great  design,  but  to 
the  men  who  opposed  and  scoffed  and  hindered  and  sought  to  frustrate 
the  enterprise,  until  in  spite  of  them  its  success  was  assured? 

In  our  foreign  relations  controversies  of  almost  a  hundred  years  over 
the  Northeastern  fisheries  have  been  settled  by  arbitration  at  The  Hague. 


MILTOX    \V.    r.LUMKXBKRG.    of    Illinc 
Official   Reporter   of  the   Convention. 


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The  attempt  to  preserve  the  fur  seal  life  of  the  Alaskan  islands,  in 
which  we  were  defeated  twenty  years  ago  in  the  Behring  Sea  arbitra- 
tion, has  been  brought  to  success  by  diplomacy  in  the  Fur  Seal  treaty 
with  Great  Britain,  Japan,  and  Russia.  The  delicate  questions  arising 
from  the  termination  of  our  treaty  regulating  trade  and  travel  with  Japan 
have  been  disposed  of  by  a  new  treaty  satisfactory  to  both  nations  and 
to  the  people  of  both  coasts  of  our  own  nation.  Our  tariff  relations  with 
all  the  world  under  the  Maximum  and  Minimum  clause  of  the  Payne- 
Aldrich  bill  have  been  readjusted.  The  Departments  of  State  and  Com- 
merce and  Labor  have  promoted  the  extension  of  American  commerce  so 
that  our  foreign  exports  have  grown  from  $1,491,744,641  in  1905,  to  $2,- 
013,549,025  in  1911,  and  the  balance  of  trade  in  our  favor  for  1911  was 
$522,094,094.  American  rights  have  been  asserted  and  maintained  and 
peace  with  all  the  world  has  been  preserved  and  strengthened. 

With  this  record  of  consistent  policy  and  faithful  service  the  Re- 
publican party  can  rest  with  confidence  on  its  title  to  command  the  ap- 
proval of  the  American  people.  We  have  a  right  to  say  that  we  can  be 
trusted  to  preserve  and  maintain  the  American  system  of  free  represen- 
tative government  handed  down  to  us  by  our  fathers.  At  our  hands  it 
will  be  no  empty  form  when  the  officers  of  the  National  Government 
subscribe  the  solemn  oath  required  of  them  by  law,  "That  I  will  support 
and  defend  the  constitution  of  the  United  States  against  all  enemies, 
foreign  and  domestic ;  that  I  will  bear  true  faith  and  allegiance  to  the 
same."  We  shall  not  apologize  for  American  institutions.  We  cherish 
with  gratitude  and  reverence  the  memory  of  the  great  men  who  devised 
the  American  constitutional  system — their  unselfish  patriotism,  their  love 
of  liberty  and  justice,  their  lofty  conception  of  human  rights,  their  deep 
insight  into  the  strength  and  the  weakness  of  human  nature,  their  wise 
avoidance  of  the  dangers  which  had  wrecked  all  preceding  attempts  at 
popular  government,  their  breadth  of  view  which  adapted  the  system 
they  devised  to  the  progress  and  development  of  a  great  people.  We  will 
be  loyal  to  the  principles  they  declared  and  to  the  spirit  of  liberty  and 
progress,  of  justice  and  security,  which  they  breathed  into  that  immortal 
instrument. 

No  government  which  must  be  administered  by  weak  and  fallible 
men  can  be  perfect,  but  we  may  justly  claim  for  our  government  under 
the  constitution  that  for  a  century  and  a  quarter  it  has  worked  out  the 
best  results  for  individual  liberty  and  progress  in  civilization  yet  achieved 
by  governmental  institutions.  Under  the  peace  and  security  which  it  has 
afforded,  nor  only  has  our  country  become  vastly  rich  but  there  has  been 
a  diffusion  of  wealth  which  should  inspire  cheerful  confidence  in  the 
future.  Witness  the  9,597,185  separate  savings  bank  accounts,  with  $4,212,- 
583,598  deposits  in  the  year  1911.  Witness  the  6,361,502  farms,  and  the 
value  of  farms  and  farm  property  of  $40,991,449,090  in  the  year  1910,  a 


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value  more  than  doubled  between  1900  and  1910.  Witness  the  stream  of 
immigrants  pouring  in  from  all  countries  of  the  earth  to  share  the  hap- 
pier lot  of  labor  in  our  fortunate  land — 9,673,973  of  them  since  1901. 
Nowhere  on  earth  is  there  such  unfettered  scope  for  the  independence  of 
individual  manhood;  nowhere  greater  security  and  competency  for  the 
family  home;  nowhere  more  universal  advantages  of  education  for  rich 
and  poor  alike;  nowhere  such  universal  response  to  all  demands  of 
charity  and  noble  plans  for  relieving  the  distress  and  improving  the  con- 
dition of  mankind;  nowhere  a  more  ready  quickening  of  public  spirit 
under  the  influence  of  high  ideals;  nowhere  the  true  ends  of  government 
more  fully  secured;  than  in  the  life  of  America  to-day  under  the  gov- 
ernment of  the  constitution. 

We  will  maintain  the  power  and  honor  of  the  nation,  but  we  will 
observe  those  limitations  which  the  constitution  sets  up  for  the  preserva- 
tion of  local  self-government.  This  country  is  so  large  and  the  condi- 
tions of  life  are  so  varied  that  it  would  be  intolerable  to  have  the  local 
and  domestic  affairs  of  our  home  communities,  which  involve  no  national 
rights,  controlled  by  majorities  made  up  in  other  States  thousands  of 
miles  away  or  by  the  officials  of  a  central  government. 

We  will  perform  the  duties  and  exercise  the  authority  of  the  offices 
with  which  we  may  be  invested,  but  we  will  observe  and  require  all  offi- 
cials to  observe  those  constitutional  limitations  which  prescribe  the  boun- 
daries of  official  power.  However  wise,  however  able,  however  patriotic, 
a  Congress  or  an  executive  may  be,  however  convinced  they  may  be 
that  the  doing  of  a  particular  thing  would  be  beneficial  to  the  public — 
if  that  thing  be  done  by  usurping  the  powers  confided  to  another  depart- 
ment or  another  officer  it  but  opens  the  door  for  the  destruction  of  lib- 
erty. The  door  opened  for  the  patriotic  and  well  meaning  to  exercise 
power  not  conferred  upon  them  by  law  is  the  door  opened  also  to  the 
self-seeking  and  ambitious.  There  can  be  no  free  government  in  which 
official  power  is  not  limited,  and  the  limitations  upon  official  power  can 
be  preserved  only  by  rigorously  insisting  upon  their  observance. 

We  will  make  and  vigorously  enforce  laws  for  the  promotion  of 
public  interests  and  the  attainment  of  public  ends,  but  we  will  observe 
those  great  rules  of  right  conduct  which  our  fathers  embodied  in  the 
limitations  of  the  constitution.  We  will  hold  sacred  the  declarations  and 
prohibitions  of  the  Bill  of  Rights,  which  protect  the  life  and  liberty  and 
property  of  the  citizen  against  the  power  of  government.  We  will  keep 
the  covenant  that  our  fathers  made,  and  that  we  have  reaffirmed  from 
generation  to  generation,  between  the  whole  body  of  the  people,  and 
every  individual  under  national  jurisdiction.  It  is  a  covenant  between 
overwhelming  power  and  every  weak  and  defenseless  one.  every  one  who 
relies  upon  the  protection  of  his  country's  laws  for  security  to  enjoy  the 
fruits  of  industry  and  thrift,  every  one  who  would  worship  God  accord- 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  99 

ing  to  his  conscience,  however  his  faith  may  differ  from  that  of  fellows, 
every  one  who  asserts  his  manhood's  right  of  freedom  in  speech  and 
action — a  solemn  covenant  that  between  the  weak  individual  and  all  the 
power  of  the  people  and  the  people's  officers  shall  forever  stand  the  eter- 
nal principles  of  justice  declared,  defined,  and  made  practically  effective 
by  specific  rules  in  those  provisions  which  we  call  the  limitations  of  the 
constitution.  That  covenant  between  power  and  weakness  is  the  chief 
basis  of  American  prosperity,  American  progress,  and  American  liberty. 
It  is  because  we  have  always  observed  it  that  we  are  nQt  torn  by  dis- 
sension and  revolution  and  civil  war  and  alternating  anarchy  and  des- 
potism like  so  many  of  our  sister  republics  whose  unhappy  fortune  we 
deplore.  With  all  our  pride  in  our  vast  material  prosperity,  in  our  suc- 
cessful institutions  and  our  advance  in  civilization,  we  would  not  be  boast- 
ful and  vainglorious,  for  we  come  of  God-fearing  people,  and  we  have 
learned  the  truth  taught  by  religion  that  all  men  are  prone  to  error,  are 
subject  to  temptation,  are  led  astray  by  impulse.  We  know  that  this  is 
as  true  in  government  as  it  is  in  private  life,  for  the  freedom  that  some 
of  our  fathers  sought  was  freedom  of  conscience  frcm  the  control  of 
majorities;  and  our  party  was  born  in  protest  against  the  extension  of  a 
system  of  human  slavery  approved  and  maintained  by  majorities.  We 
know  that  there  is  no  safe  course  in  the  life  of  men  or  of  nations  except 
to  establish  and  to  follow  declared  principles  of  conduct.  There  is  a 
divine  principle  of  justice  which  men  cannot  make  or  unmake,  which  is 
above  all  governments,  above  all  legislatures,  above  all  majorities.  Con- 
formity to  it  is  a  condition  of  national  life.  The  American  people  have 
set  up  this  eternal  law  of  justice  as  the  guide  for  their  national  action. 
They  have  formulated  and  expressed  it  in  practical  rules  of  conduct  es- 
tablished by  them  impersonally,  abstractly,  when  no  interest  or  impulse  or 
specific  desire  was  present  to  sway  their  judgment.  Upon  submission  and 
conformity  to  these  rules  of  justice  depends  our  existence  as  a  nation, 
and,  as  we  love  our  country  and  hope  for  the  continuance  of  its  peace 
and  liberty  to  our  children's  children,  we  should  humbly  and  reverently 
seek  for  strength  and  wisdom  to  abide  by  the  principles  of  the  constitu- 
tion against  the  days  of  our  temptation  and  weakness. 

With  a  deep  sense  of  duty  to  so  order  our  country's  government  that 
the  blessings  which  God  has  vouchsafed  to  us  may  be  continued,  we  can 
be  trusted  to  keep  the  pledge  given  to  the  American  people  by  the  last 
Republican  National  Convention : 

"The  Republican  Party  will  uphold  at  all  times  the  authority  and 

integrity  of  the  courts,   state  and  federal,  and  will  ever  insist  that 

their  powers  to  enforce  their  process  and  to  protect  life,  liberty  and 

property  shall  be  preserved  inviolate." 

We  must  be  true  to  that  pledge,  for  in  no  other  way  can  our  country 
keep  itself  within  the  straight  and  narrow  path  prescribed  by  the  prin- 


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ciples  of  right  conduct  embodied  in  our  constitution. 

The  limitations  upon  arbitrary  power,  and  the  prohibitions  of  the  Bill 
of  Rights  which  protect  liberty  and  insure  justice  cannot  be  enforced 
except  through  the  determinations  of  an  independent  and  courageous  judi- 
ciary. 

We  shall  be  true  to  that  Republican  pledge.  The  great  courts  in 
which  Marshall,  and  Story,  and  Harlan  sat  will  not  be  degraded  from 
their  high  office.  Their  judges  will  not  be  punished  for  honest  decisions; 
their  judgments  will  be  respected  and  obeyed.  The  keystone  of  this  bal- 
anced and  stable  structure  of  government,  established  by  our  fathers, 
will  not  be  shattered  by  Republican  hands ;  for  we  stand  with  Alexander 
Hamilton,  who  said,  in  the  Federalist: 

"For  I  agree  that  there  is  no  liberty  where  the  power  of  judging 
be  not  separate  from  the  legislative  and  executive  powers" ; 
we  stand  with  John  Marshall,  who  said,  in  Marbury  vs.  Madison : 

"To   what  purpose  are  powers   limited,   and  to  what  purpose   is 
that  limitation  committed  to  writing,  if  these  limitations  may,  at  any 
time,  be  passed  by  those  intended  to  be  restrained?"; 
and  we  stand  with  Abraham  Lincoln,  who  said,  in  his  First  Inaugural : 

'A  majority  held  in  restraint  by  constitutional  checks  and  limita- 
tions and  always  changing  easily  with  deliberate  changes  of  popular 
opinion  and  sentiment,  is  the  only  true  sovereign  of  a  free  people. 
Whoever  rejects  it  does  of  necessity  fly  to  anarchy  or  despotism." 
(The  address  of  the  Temporary  Chairman  was  frequently  interrupted 
by  applause.) 

TEMPORARY  OFFICERS. 

MR.  VICTOR  ROSEWATER,  of  Nebraska. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  am  directed 
by  the  Republican  National  Committee  to  submit  to  the  Convention  its 
recommendations  with  respect  to  temporary  officers. 

THE  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN.— The  list  of  temporary  officers  recom- 
mended by  the  National  Committee  will  be  read. 

The  Reading  Clerk  read  as   follows : 

General  Secretary LAFAYETTE    B.   GLEASON,    New    York 

Chief    Assistant    Secretary H,  C.  Lindsay,  Nebraska 

Sergeant-at-Arms William  F.  Stone,  Maryland 

Chief  Assistant  Sergeant-at-Arms E.   P.  Thayer,  Indiana 

Parliamentarians Marlin    E.    Olmsted,     Pennsylvania 

E.  L.   Lampson,  Ohio 

Official  Reporter M.   W.  Blumenberg,  Washington,  D.   C. 

Chief  of  Doorkeepers T.  J.   Hanson,  Maryland 

Chaplains Rev.   T.   F.   Callaghan 

Dean  Walter  T.  Sumner 
Rev.  Joseph  Stolz 
Rev.  John  Balcolm_Shaw 
Rev.  John  Wesley  Hill 


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Assistant  Secretaries  , 


Reading  Clerks 


Tally  Clerks 


Messenger  to  the  Chairman 
Messenger  to  the  Secretary  . 


•  C.  M.  Harger,  Kansas 
John  L.  Adams,  Iowa 
E.  Percy  Stoddard,  New  Hampshire 
A.  N.  Dalrymple,  New  Jersey 
John  H.  McNary,  Oregon 
John  L.  Moorman,  Indiana 
A.  W.  White,  North  Carolina 
H.  H.  Bancroft,  Illinois 
George  L.  Hart,  Virginia 
.Thomas  Williamson,  Illinois 
William  A.  Waite,  Michigan 
Otto  Bossard,  Wisconsin 
J.  Mitchell  Galvin,  Massachusetts 
William  Blair,  Colorado 
E.  W.  Munson,  South  Dakota 
E.  R.  Orchard,  North   Dakota 

.  Archibald  G.  Graham,  Indiana 
Harry  C.  Woodill,  Massachusetts 
Harry  G.  Thomas,  Nebraska 
Sidney  Pexton,  Wyoming 
David  J.  White,  Rhode  Island 
Wallace  Townsend,  Arkansas 
A.   E.   Fisher,  New  Jersey 

.  Crawford  Kennedy 

.  Henry  A.   Capel 


MR.  HERBERT  PARSONS,  of  New  York. — I  move  that  the  recommenda- 
tions of  the  Republican  National  Committee  in  the  matter  of  the  selection 
of  General  Secretary,  Chief  Assistant  Secretary,  Sergeant-at-Arms,  Chief 
Assistant  Sergeant-at-Arms,  Parliamentarians,  Official  Reporter,  Chief  of 
Door-Keepers,  Chaplains,  and  others  officers,  be  approved  by  the  Conven- 
tion. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

RULES  FOR  CONVENTION. 

MR.  CLARENCE  D.  CLARK,  of  Wyoming. — I  move  that  until  a  perma- 
nent organization  is  effected  and  permanent  rules  adopted,  this  Conven- 
tion be  governed  by  the  rules  of  the  last  Republican  National  Conven- 
tion. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

COMMITTEES. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  offer  the  resolution  which  I  send  to 
the  desk. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  resolution  will  be  read. 

The  Reading  Cleak  read  as  follows : 

"Resolved,   That  the    roll   of    States    and   Territories   be   now   called. 


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OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 


and  that  the  Chairman  of  each  delegation  announce  the  names  of  the 
persons  selected  to  serve  on  the  several  committees  as  follows :  Per- 
manent Organization,  Rules  and  Order  of  Business,  Credentials,  Resolu- 
tions; And  further,  that  the  Chairman  of  each  delegation  send  to  the 
Secretary's  desk  in  writing  the  names  of  the  persons  selected  from  his 
delegation  to  serve  on  the  aforesaid  committees  " 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — I  move  as  a  substitute  for  the  resolution 
offered  by  the  gentleman  from  Indiana  (Mr.  Watson)  that  the  list  of 
delegates  or  .  the  temporary  roll  of  this  Convention  be  amended  by 
striking  therefrom  the  names  of  the  delegates  upon  List  1,  which  I  hand 
to  the  Secretary,  and  that  there  be  substituted  in  lieu  thereof  the  names 
upon  List  2,  which  I  send  to  the  desk,  and  that  the  temporary  roll  when 
thus  amended  become  the  temporary  roll  of  this  Convention. 

The  Reading  Clerk  read  as  follows : 

List  No.  1  of  delegates  proposed  to  be  unseated  is  as  follows: 


ALABAMA. 
Ninth    District. 

James    B.    Sloan Oneonta 

J.    Rivers   Carter Birmingham 

ARIZONA. 

At  Large. 
J.  L.  Hubbell 
J.  T.  Williams,  Jr. 
R.  H.  Freudenthal 
Robert    E.    Morrison 
F.  L.  Wright 
J.    C.    Adams 


ARKANSAS. 

Fifth   District. 

N.     B.     Burrow Altus 

S.  A.  Jones Little  Rock 

CALIFORNIA. 

Fourth  District. 

E.    H.     Tryon San  Francisco 

Morris   Meyerfeld,   Jr  .  San   Francisco 

INDIANA. 
Thirteenth    District. 
Clement  W.   Studebaker  .  South  Bend 
Maurice    Fox La    Porte 

KENTUCKY. 

Ser'enth  District. 

R.     C.     Stoll Lexington 

James    Cureton Newcastle 

Eighth  District. 

Coleman   C.   Wallace  ....  Richmond 
Leonard  W.  Bethurem  .  .  Mt.  Vernon 


Eleventh  District. 

O.     H.     Waddle Somerset 

H.    H.    Asher Wasioto 

MICHIGAN. 
At  Large. 

John    D.    MacKay Detroit 

William  J.  Richards  .   .  .  Crystal  Falls 

George   B.    Morley Saginaw 

Eugene  Fifield Bay  City 

Fred   A.    Diggins Cadillac 

William    Judson  ....  Grand    Rapids 

OKLAHOMA. 

Third  District. 

Joseph    A.    Gill Vinita 

J.     W.     Gilliland Holdenville 

TENNESSEE. 
Second  District. 

T.  A.   W  right Knoxville 

John    J.    Jennings,    Jr Jellico 

Ninth    District. 

John  B.  Tarrant Henning 

James  W.  Brown Brownsville 

TEXAS. 
At  Large. 

H.   F.   McGregor Houston 

W.   C.   Averille Beaumont 

C.    K.   McDowell Del   Rio 

J.  E.  Lutz Vernon 

J.    E.    Elgin San   Antonio 

W.    H.    Love McKinney 

W.    M.    McDonald  ....  Fort  Worth 
G.    W.    Burroughs  ....  Fort  Worth 


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TEXAS. — Continued. 


Third   District. 

J.   W.   Smiley Tyler 

U.    S.    Franks Athens 

Fourth  District. 

A.  L.     Dyer Celina 

M.    C.    Sharp Denison 

Fifth  District. 

Eugene   Marshall Dallas 

Harry    Beck Hillsboro 

Seventh  District. 

J.   H.   Hawley Palestine 

H.  L.   Price Crocket 

Ed.   McCarthy Galveston 

B.  F.  Wallace Palestine 

Eighth  District. 

C.  A.    Warnken Houston 

Spencer     Graves Richmond 

Ninth  District. 

C.  M.   Hughes Wharton 

M.   M.    Rodgers La  Grange 

Tenth   District. 

H.    M.    Moore Austin 

F.  L.  Welch Taylor 


Eleventh  District. 
T.    J.    Darling Temple 

B.  G.    Ward Marlin 

Fourteenth   District. 
J.   M.  Oppenheimer  .  .  .  San  Antonio 
John   Hall Lampasas 

WASHINGTON. 
At  Large. 

Howard    Cosgrove Seattle 

R.     M.    Condon Spokane 

E.  B.    Benn Aberdeen 

William  Jones Tacoma 

W.    T.    Dovell Seattle 

Peter    Mutty Port    Townsend 

M.    E.    Field Wenatchee 

A.    D.    Sloane 

First  District. 
Hugh    Eldridge 

Patrick     Halloran 

Second  District. 

F.  H.    Collins 

E.    B.    Hubbard 

Third  District. 

C.  C.  Case 

W.    N.    Devine  .   . 


List  No.  2  of  those  proposed  to  be  seated  in  place  of  the  delegates 
on  List  No.  1  is  as  follows: 

ALABAMA. 
Ninth  District. 

Judge  O.  R.  Hundley .  .  Birmingham 
George    R.    Lewis Bessemer 


ARIZONA. 
At  Large. 

Dwight    B.    Heard Phoenix 

E.     S.    Clark Prescott 

John  C.  Greenway Bisbee 

Ben.    F.    Daniel Tucson 

John   McK.    Redmond  ....  Florence 
Thomas  D.   Molloy Yuma 

ARKANSAS. 

Fifth  District. 

W.  S.  Holt Little  Rock 

H.  K.   Cochran Little  Rock 

CALIFORNIA. 

Fourth  District. 

Charles  S.  Wheeler .  .  San  Francisco 
Philip    Bancroft ....  San    Francisco 


INDIANA. 
Thirteenth   District. 

Putnam     R.     Judkins Goshen 

Frederick  W.  Kellar  .   .   .  South  Bend 

KENTUCKY. 
Seventh  District. 
Henry  T.  Duncan,  Jr.  .   .  .  Lexington 

M.    C.    Rankin Scott 

Eighth  District. 

William    S.    Lawwill Danville 

H.    V.   Bastin Lancaster 

Eleventh    District. 

B.   J.    Bethurem Somerset 

D.    C.    Edwards London 

MICHIGAN 

At  Large. 
Chase   S.   Osborn  .  .  Sault  Ste.   Marie 

Charles   A.    Nichols Detroit 

Sybrant  Wesselius  .  .  .  Grand   Rapids 

Theodore    Joslin Adrian 

Herbert  F.   Boughey  .   .  Traverse  City 
William    D.    Gordon Midland 


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OKLAHOMA. 

Third   District. 

Alexander    A.    Dennison  .   .  Claremore 
A.    A.    Small Tulsa 

TENNESSEE. 

Second  District. 

H.    B.    Lindsay Knoxville 

John     C.     Houk 

Ninth  District. 

\\'.     F.    Poston Alamo 

G.    T.    Taylor Union    City 

TEXAS. 
At  Large. 

Cecil   A.   Lyon Sherman 

Ed.    C.    Lasater Falfurias 

H.    L.    Borden Houston 

Toe    E.     Williams Hamilton 

Lewis     Lindsay Gainesville 

T.    O.    Terrell San    Antonio 

J.    M.    McCormick Dallas 

Sam    Davidson Fort    Worth 

Third  District. 

F.  N.   Hopkins Alba 

J.    L.    Jackson Tyler 

Fourth  District. 

R.    H.    Crabb Leonard 

R.    F.    Akridge Wolfe   City 

Fifth  District. 

O.     E.     Schow Clifton 

W.    B.    Franks Palmer 

Seventh  District. 

G.  W.    Burkett .   ,  .  .  Galveston 


C.    A.    Clinton  . 


.  Palestine 


Eighth  District. 

W.     A.     Matheis Bellville 

E.  W.   Atkinson Navasota 

Ninth    District. 

Fritz   R.  Korth Kames  City 

J.    M.    Haller Yoakum 

Tenth  District. 

M.    M.    Turney Smithville 

Harvey    C.    Stiles San   Marco 

Eleventh  District. 
C.  C.   Baker 

J.  W.  Cocke 

Fourteenth   District. 

G.   N.  Harrison Brownwood 

Robert     Penninger.  .   .  Fredericksburg 

WASHINGTON. 
At  Large. 

Miles     Poindexter Spokane 

Thomas    F.    Murphine Seattle 

S.    A.   D.   Glasscock  ....  Bellingham 

Robert     Moran Rosario 

Donald    McMaster Vancouver 

O.    C.    Moore Spokane 

W.    L.    Johnson Colville 

N.    S.    Richards Oakville 

First  District. 

Frank    R.    Pendleton Everett 

James  A.  Johnson Seattle 

Second  District. 

Thomas   Crawford Centralia 

Thomas   Geisness  ....  Port   Angeles 
Third  District. 

L.    Roy    Slater Spokane 

T.    C.    Elliott.  .  .  Walla   Walla 


The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  Missouri  (Mr. 
Hadley)  yields  to  the  gentleman  from  Indiana  (Mr.  Watson),  for  the 
purpose  of  making  a  motion  to  adjourn. 

MR.  WATSON. — With  the  understanding  that  the  motion  of  Gov- 
ernor Hadley  will  be  the  unfinished  business  before  the  Convention  to- 
morrow, I  move  that  the  Convention  adjourn  until  eleven  o'clock  to- 
morrow morning. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to ;  and  (at  7  o'clock  and  43  minutes  p.  m.) 
the  Convention  adjourned  until  to-morrow,  Wednesday,  June  19th,  1913, 
at  11  o'clock  a.  m. 


SECOND  DAY 


CONVENTION  HALL 

THE  COLISEUM, 
CHICAGO,  ILLINOIS,  JUNE  19,  1912. 

The  Convention  met  at  11  o'clock  a.  m. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Gentlemen,  the  Convention  will  be 
opened  with  prayer  by  the  Reverend  Doctor  Stolz. 

PRAYER  OF  RABBI  JOSEPH  STOLZ,  D.D. 

Rabbi  Joseph  Stolz,  D.D.,  of  Isaiah  Temple,  Chicago,  Illinois,  offered 
the  following  prayer : 

O  Lord,  who  art  the  loving  Father  of  all  mankind,  the  just  Ruler  of 
the  nations,  the  everlasting  God  whose  counsel  of  righteousness  and 
truth  prevaileth  over  the  waves  of  passion  and  the  tumult  of  voices,  we 
bless  Thee  that  Thou  hast  set  our  nation  high  among  the  peoples  of 
the  earth  and  hast  been  our  strength  in  every  conflict,  our  present  help 
in  every  time  of  need. 

In  Thy  bounty  Thou  hast  given  us  this  land  flowing  with  milk  and 
honey;  and  in  Thy  gracious  Providence  Thou  hast  destined  it  to  become 
the  Promised  Land  of  Liberty  and  Equality,  the  home  of  the  free,  the 
refuge  of  the  oppressed,  the  goal  -of  the  strong  and  the  aspiring  who 
would  share  our  inheritance  of  Law  and  Order.  And  we  praise  Thee 
for  the  multitudes  who  have  found  blessing  within  our  borders ;  we 
thank  Thee  for  every  beneficent  institution  established  within  our  do- 
main, for  what  of  Justice  has  become  the  common  law  of  the  land, 
for  our  goodly  heritage  of  tolerance  and  peace. 

And  we  beseech  Thee,  Lord  of  Hosts,  be  with  us,  as  Thou  hast 
been  with  our  fathers.  Help  us  to  prove  ourselves  worthy  of  Thy  bless- 
ings. Make  us  mindful  of  our  duties  as  well  as  our  rights,  our  respon- 
sibilities as  well  as  our  privileges.  Grant  us  the  insight  that  a  people 
perisheth  where  there  is  no  vision,  and  the  understanding  that  a  great 
nation  maketh  its  rulers  Righteousness  and  its  officers  Peace,  seeketh 
leaders  who  despise  the  gain  of  oppression  and  withhold  their  hands 
from  bribes,  maketh  chief  those  whose  glory  it  is  to  serve  mankind 
by  Justice,  Fidelity  and  Truth.  Bestow  upon  the  delegates  assembled 
the  spirit  of  wisdom  and  understanding,  of  counsel  and  might,  that  they 
decide  in  justice  and  equity  and  not  after  the  sight  of  their  eyes  or 

105 


106  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF  THE 

the  hearing  of  their  ears,  and  that  they  guide  themselves  by  the  truth 
that  righteousness  exalteth  a  nation  and  injustice  is  a  reproach  to  any 
people. 

And  so  may  Thy  Kingdom  come  and  Thy  will  be  done  on  earth. 
Amen. 

COMMITTEES. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  unfinished  business  before  the 
Convention  is  the  motion  of  the  gentleman  from  Missouri  (Mr.  Had- 
ley).  Before  recognizing  Mr.  Hadley,  the  Chair  will  state  to  the  Con- 
vention that  an  agreement  has  been  reached  between  the  two  gentlemen 
whose  respective  motions  are  concerned  in  the  matter  now  to  be  considered 
— the  gentleman  from  Indiana  (Mr.  Watson  )and  the  gentleman  from 
Missouri  (Mr.  Hadley).  The  agreement  is  that  there  shall  be  three 
hours  allowed  for  debate  upon  the  pending  resolution,  one-half  to  the 
advocates  of  the  resolution,  and  one-half  to  its  opponents,  the  time  on 
the  one  side  to  be  controlled  by  Mr.  Hadley,  the  time  on  the  other 
side  to  be  controlled  by  Mr.  Watson.  Unanimous  consent  is  asked  that 
this  agreement  may  be  the  rule  of  the, debate.  Is  there  objection?  The 
Chair  hears  none,  and  the  rule  is  agreed  to. 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — Mr.  Chairman  and  Gentlemen  of  the 
Convention :  I  am  going  to  trespass  for  but  a  few  moments  upon  your 
time  and  your  patience  this  morning,  in  an  endeavor  to  explain  to  you 
the  situation  and  the  question  now  presented  to  the  Convention  for  its 
consideration  and  decision. 

Upon  the  convening  of  this  Convention  on  yesterday,  I  offered  a 
resolution  asking  that  some  72  names  which  it  was  claimed  had  been 
improperly,  or  rather  unfairly,  placed  upon  the  temporary  roll  of  the 
Convention  be  stricken  off,  and  that  in  their  place  should  be  inserted 
the  names  of  the  delegates  who  had  been  honestly  elected  by  Republican 
voters  of  the  different  States  and  Congressional  districts.  (Applause.) 

The  Chair  ruled  that  my  motion  was  out  of  order,  but  indicated  that 
in  accordance  with  precedent  he  would  hear  some  remarks  as  to  why  the 
decision  that  he  had  already  rendered  should  not  stand. 

I  thereupon  undertook  to  present  for  the  consideration  of  the  Chair- 
man of  the  National  Committee  the  reasons,  founded  upon  principle 
and  precedent,  why  this  Convention,  assembled  here  under  the  call  of 
the  National  Committee,  had,  at  its  very  inception,  the  right  to  say  who 
should  and  who  should  not  participate  in  the  work  of  this  Convention. 

Arguments  to  the  contrary  were  offered  by  the  gentleman  from  In- 
diana (Mr.  Watson),  and  at  the  conclusion  of  those  arguments,  theoreti- 
cally addressed  to  the  Chair,  in  reality  addressed  to  the  body  of  this  Con- 
vention, the  Chair  sustained  the  point  of  order,  and  arbitrarily  declined 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  107 

to  entertain  an  appeal  from  the  decision  of  the  Chair,  or  to  submit  to 
the  vote  of  this  Convention  that  appeal  which  I  then  took. 

One  of  two  courses  was  then  open  to  this  Convention  to  pursue. 
We  could  submit  to  the  ruling  of  the  Chair,  trusting  to  the  Convention 
to  bring  the  question  again  before  the  body  for  decision,  or  we  could 
arbitrarily  and  forcibly  meet  the  arbitrary  and  unparliamentary  ruling 
of  the  Chairman,  and  undertake  to  call  the  roll  upon  an  appeal  that  he 
had  ^declined  to  recognize,  and  had  declined  to  submit  to  the  considera- 
tion of  the  Convention. 

We  preferred  to  await  the  election  of  a  Temporary  Chairman,  and 
then  renew  the  motion  which  upon  last  evening  I  did  renew,  and  which 
the  Chairman  of  this  Convention  has  ruled  is  a  proper  motion  to  be 
considered  by  this  Convention.  (Applause.) 

That  motion  now  presented  is  that  delegates  numbering  seventy- 
two,  who  have  been  placed  upon  the  temporary  roll  of  this  Convention 
by  the  action  of  the  National  Committee  from  Washington,  from  Cali- 
fornia, from  Arizona,  from  Texas,  from  Indiana,  from  Kentucky,  and 
one  or  two  other  States,  be  stricken  off,  and  that  in  their  places  be 
inserted  the  names  of  the  men  whom  fourteen  members  of  the  National 
Committee  asserted  at  the  time  and  have  asserted  again  were  honestly 
elected  by  the  people  of  those  several  States,  and  ought  to  sit  upon  the 
floor  of  this  Convention  and  participate  in  its  deliberations  to-day.  (Ap- 
plause.) 

I  am  not  going  to  discuss  in  detail  the  merits  of  these  cases.  That 
will  be  done  by  gentlemen  who  have  given  them  careful  consideration; 
but  I  want  to  present  to  you  the  indictment  that  has  been  made  public 
throughout  this  country  against  the  action  of  the  National  Committee, 
in  order  that  you  may  understand  the  seriousness  and  importance  of  this 
question,  which  affects  not  only  the  success  of  our  party  in  the  next 
campaign,  but,  more  than  that,  the  question  of  its  very  existence. 

Upon  last  Monday  evening  in  the  second  largest  hall  in  this  city, 
before  a  vast  audience  gathered  together  by  the  magic  of  a  single  name, 
and  inspired  by  the  magnetism  of  a  single  personality,  these  words  were 
spoken : 

"I  have  carefully  examined  the  facts  in  these  cases,  and  I  say  to 
you  there  is  no  element  of  doubt  that  the  men  in  question  were  hon- 
orably and  legally  chosen  by  the  people,  and  that  the  effort  of  the 
majority  of  the  National  Committee  to  unseat  them  represents  noth- 
ing but  naked  theft,  carried  on  with  the  sole  and  evil  purpose  of 
substituting  the  will  of  the  bosses  for  the  deliberately  expressed  judg- 
ment of  the  people  of  the  United  States." 

I  do  not  know  whether  a  majority  of  this  Convention  agrees  with 
me  upon  the  proposition  that  Theodore  Roosevelt  ought  to  be  our  can- 
didate for  President  of  the  United  States  (applause),  but  there  can  be 


108  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

no  difference  upon  the  proposition  in  the  mind  of  any  intelligent  man 
that  his  voice  is  to-day  the  greatest  voice  of  the  western  world.  (Ap- 
plause.) He  can  command  the  support  of  more  people,  and  he  can  lead 
a  larger  number  of  American  voters  in  a  cause  for  which  he  fights,  than 
any  other  man  who  lives  beneath  the  folds  of  the  American  flag.  (Ap- 
plause.) 

But  I  will  concede,  if  you  please,  that  in  the  excitement  of  a  cam- 
paign, with  personal  interests  involved,  a  man  may  indulge  in  extrava- 
gance of  statement  and  be  deceived  as  to  the  facts  presented  to  him  by 
his  partisans  and  his  friends.  I  wish,  however,  to  read  to  you  the 
statement  of  fourteen  members  of  the  National  Committee,  many  of  whom 
are  not  even  supporters  of  the  nomination  of  Theodore  Roosevelt: 

"The  undersigned  members  of  the  Republican  National  Com- 
mittee report  that  the  persons  whose  names  appear  on  the  at- 
tached list,  marked  No.  1,  and  who  have  been  reported  as  legal  mem- 
bers of  this  Convention,  are  not,  in  fact,  legally  entitled  to  seats  in 
this  Convention ;  and  they  further  report  that  none  of  these  per- 
sons should  be  allowed  to  take  part  in  any  proceedings  of  this  Con- 
vention, or  to  vote  on  any  proposition  submitted  to  this  Conven- 
tion, until  the  question  of  their  seats  be  determined  by  the  uncon- 
tested  delegates  of  this  Convention. 

"And  further  the  undersigned  members  of  the  National  Com- 
mittee report  that  the  persons  whose  names  appear  on  the  attached 
list,  marked  No.  2,  are  the  persons  legally  entitled  to  seats  in  this 
Convention  from  and  for  the  respective  States  and  districts  appearing 
on  said  list." 

That  is  the  list  that  is  contained  in  my  motion,  which  is  now  before 
this  Convention  for  consideration. 

Now  what,  gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  are  the  signatures  to  be 
found  here?  The  first  one  appearing  here  is  the  name  of  a  United 
States  Senator  who  has  made  for  himself  a  record  for  ability  and  integ- 
rity second  to  no  other  Senator  in  that  illustrious  body,  Senator  William 
E.  Borah,  of  Idaho. 

Next  upon  the  list  is  the  name  of  that  great  lawyer  who  was  chosen 
by  our  government  in  the  contest  with  the  greatest  combination  of  money 
and  power  the  world  has  ever  known,  the  Standard  Oil  trust,  and  who 
brought  it  to  its  knees  with  a  successful  suit  conducted  through  the 
United  States  Supreme  Court ;  and  Frank  B.  Kellogg  tells  you  these 
delegates  who  now  sit  here  under  the  action  of  the  National  Committee 
have  no  right  to  their  seats  and  that  others  should  be  seated  here  in 
their  places.  I  will  not  read  you  the  names  of  all  the  distinguished  gen- 
tlemen who  have  signed  this.  (Cries  of,  "Go  on !  Read  them  all !") 

Very  well,  then,  I  will  read  them  all.     A.  R.  Burnam,  of  the  State 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  109 

of  Kentucky;  George  A.  Knight,  of  the  State  of  California;  W.  C.  Mon- 
day, of  fhe  State  of  Tennessee ;  John  G.  Capers,  of  the  State  of  South 
Carolina ;  Pearl  Wight,  of  the  State  of  Louisiana ;  C.  E.  Loose,  of  the 
State  of  Utah ;  Thomas  Thorson,  of  the  State  of  South  Dakota ;  Frank 
B.  Kellogg,  of  Minnesota;  T.  Coleman  Du  Pont,  of  the  State  of  Dela- 
ware; Sidney  Bieber,  of  the  District  of  Columbia;  Cecil  Lyon,  of  the 
State  of  Texas ;  L.  N.  Littauer,  of  New  York.  Those  are  the  names. 

SEVERAL  NEW  YORK  DELEGATES. — Where  is  the  name  of  Mr.  Ward? 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — Mr.  Ward  joins  in  the  protest  against  all 
except  two  States ;  and  because  he  did  not  hear  those,  he  did  not  sign 
the  document.  I  am  glad  to  be  able  to  inform  the  associates  of  Mr.  Ward 
from  the  State  of  New  York  that  Mr.  Ward  does  not  vote  or  sign 
statements  in  reference  to  delegates  simply  and  solely  upon  the  propo- 
sition as  to  what  candidate  they  may  favor  for  the  nomination  for  Pres- 
ident. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  let  me  appeal  to  you  that  this  is  not 
a  question  to  be  dealt  with  in  any  spirit  of  personal  controversy,  or  banter. 
It  is  a  question  vital  and  fundamental  in  importance  if  our  party  is  to 
live  and  to  succeed  in  the  future  in  rendering  the  great  service  to  the 
American  people  that  it  has  rendered  in  the  past. 

No  candidate  can  go  forth  from  this  Convention  with  the  hope  of 
success  if  the  American  people  believe  the  nomination  was  given  to  him 
by  the  votes  of  delegates  dishonestly  seated  heie  in  this  Convention. 

So  I  -isk  of  you  that  you  give  to  those  who  shall  argue  this  question 
on  behalf  of  the  minority  members  of  this  committee  and  on  behalf  of 
the  majority  members  of  this  committee  the  same  careful  attention  and 
earnest  consideration  that  you  would  endeavor  to  give  it  if  you  were 
sworn  jurors  engaged  in  the  trial  of  a  question  of  fact  in  a  matter  of 
litigation  in  the  courts. 

This  is  indeed  a  serious  indictment  leveled  against  the  thirty-eight 
men  who  have  placed  these  delegates  here.  Let  us  consider  it  carefully 
and  see  whether  the  facts  support  the  verdict.  The  different  cases,  as  I 
have  said,  will  be  dealt  with  by  gentlemen  representing  the  different 
States.  I  want,  however,  in  advance  to  outline  in  the  most  general  way 
some  of  the  facts  that  will  be  presented  for  your  consideration. 

You  will  be  told  how  in  the  State  of  California  delegates  were  elected 
under  a  State  law  to  which  all  candidates  and  the  representatives  of  all 
candidates  unquestionably  subscribed,  and  although  those  delegates  re- 
ceived 77,000  majority  from  the  people  of  California  they  were  unseated 
and  delegates  placed  in  their  stead  when  the  certificate  of  the  Secretary 
of  State  said  it  could  not  be  shown  how  many  votes  they  received  in 
their  districts,  and  the  uncontested  facts  show  that  fourteen  of  the  Taft 
delegates  had  received  more  votes  than  they. 

We  will  tell  you  how  in  the  State  of  Texas  there  was  a  convention 


110  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

called  under  a  State  law  by  the  almost  unanimous  action  of  the  State 
Committee,  and  176  uncontested  delegates  returned  by  State  officials  held 
a  convention,  out  of  a  possible  membership  of  209. 

Yet  the  eight  men  elected  by  that  convention,  composed  of  176  dele- 
gates out  of  a  possible  membership  of  209,  whose  credentials  came  from 
sworn  State  officials,  were  unseated  by  the  National  Committee  and  others 
placed  in  their  stead  who  were  chosen  by  a  rump  convention  of  mem- 
bers seceding  from  the  regular  convention  which  was  held  under  the  call 
of  the  State  Committee. 

Other  speakers  will  tell  you  how  in  Arizona  and  in  Washington 
the  delegates  chosen  by  the  Republican  voters  of  those  States  under  a 
call  of  the  regular  committee  were  overturned  by  hand-picked  delegates 
of  the  seceding  few  of  the  governing  committee  of  the  party. 

This  evidence  will  be  submitted  for  your  consideration,  and  then 
will  come  the  question  as  to  how  we  are  to  vote  upon  that  proposition. 
It  will  be  our  contention  that  upon  that  question  there  shall  be  cast  only 
the  votes  of  those  delegates  whose  seats  are  not  involved  in  contro- 
versy in  the  motion  now  pending. 

I  cited  to  you  yesterday  the  precedent  of  the  Convention  of  1864, 
where  they  had  no  temporary  roll  made  by  the  National  Committee; 
Mr.  Watson  said  it  was  because  there  was  no  National  Committee;  but,  in 
fact,  there  was  one,  and  its  Chairman  called  the  Convention  to  order ;  but 
when  they  proceeded  to  make  up  the  temporary  roll  it  was  found  that 
there  were  two  delegations  from  the  State  of  Missouri,  representing  dif- 
ferent factions  of  the  Republican  party  of  that  State,  and  it  was  de- 
cided by  that  Convention  that  both  of  those  delegations  should  stand 
aside,  should  have  no  part  in  the  work  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials, 
and  should  not  vote  in  the  determination  of  the  question  as  to  whether 
they  should  have  seats  in  that  Convention.  That  has  been  the  ruling  in 
every  Republican  National  Convention  that  ever  assembled ;  and  when 
William  McKinley,  Chairman  of  the  Republican  National  Convention  of 
1892,  asked  the  judgment  of  such  men  as  Spooner  and  Hoar  upon  this 
question,  the  answer  was  given  back  that  by  every  consideration  of  the 
principles  of  universal  justice  no  man  should  be  a  judge  in  his  own  case. 
(Applause.) 

And  we  have  here  not  only  that  precedent,  but  we  have  it  from  the 
very  fountain  sources  of  English  jurisprudence.  When  one  of  the  unjust 
kings  called  upon  an  English  judge  to  render  a  certain  decision,  he  made 
an  answer  that  was  as  correct  law  then  as  it  is  correct  procedure  to-day, 
and  that  answer  was :  "It  is  written  in  the  law  of  England  that  no  man 
shall  be  a  judge  in  his  own  case."  (Applause.) 

We  say  to  you  that  we  will  submit  this  case  to  you  upon  the  facts, 
with  the  one  limitation  that  those  whose  seats  are  challenged  here  shall 
not  determine,  and  shall  not  vote  in  determining,  the  question  whether 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  Ill 

they  shall  be  the  beneficiaries  of  the  fraud  that  it  is  charged  has  been 
committed  in  their  behalf.  (Applause.)  . 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  recognizes  the  gentleman 
from  Indiana  (Mr.  Watson). 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  yield  ten  minutes  to  the  gentleman  from 
Washington,  Mr.  Dovell. 

MR.  W.  T.  DOVELL,  of  Washington. — Delegates  to  the  Convention,  on 
the  day  following  our  State  Convention  in  the  State  of  Washington,  a 
distinguished  presidential  candidate  made  the  statement,  in  a  speech  he 
was  making  in  the  State  of  Ohio,  that  an  attempt  had  been  made  to  steal 
the  Washington  delegation  from  him.  Let  me  demonstrate  by  briefly 
stating  the  facts  as  they  occurred  how  recklessly  false  that  statement  is. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  the  State  Committee  of  our  State 
regularly  called  a  State  Convention,  stating  in  their  call  the  time  and 
place  where  that  Convention  should  be  held.  No  question  was  ever  raised 
as  to  the  regularity  of  that  call. 

When  the  hour  arrived  that  had  been  fixed  for  the  holding  of  that 
Convention,  a  majority  of  the  delegates  who  had  been  lawfully  accred- 
ited with  seats  in  that  Convention  assembled  at  the  time  and  place  set, 
held  their  Convention,  and  elected  the  delegation  from  the  State  of 
Washington  which  now  sits  within  this  hall.  (Applause.) 

A  sheer  minority  of  those  who  had  been  accredited  with  seats  in  that 
Convention  went  to  another  place  in  the  city,  giving  us  no  notice  of  where 
they  were  going,  called  in  with  them  any  persons  whom  they  chose,  made 
themselves  into  a  mass  meeting,  and  elected  what  is  now  their  contesting 
delegation,  elected  the  delegation  which  appeared  before  the  National 
Committee  the  other  day  and  demanded  seats  in  this  regular  Republican 
Convention. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  it  may  be  possible  that  we  shall  cease 
to  hold  conventions ;  but  so  long  as  we  do  hold  them  they  must  be  held 
under  certain  rules  and  according  to  certain  regulations,  and  if  that  be 
true  I  cannot  understand  how  any  one  who  refuses  to  come  to  a  Repub- 
lican Convention  at  the  time  when  and  place  where  it  was  called  can 
claim  the  right  to  participate  in  it.  (Applause.) 

Understand,  we  have  no  preferential  primary  law  in  the  State  of 
Washington.  The  declaration  is  utterly  false  that  the  State  of  Wash- 
ington was  ever  carried  by  ex-President  Roosevelt. 

Let  me  go  into  details  far  enough  to  explain  to  you  what  was  the 
basis  of  the  controversy.  It  was  the  delegation  from  the  county  of  King, 
the  largest  county  in  the  State  of  Washington.  A  certain  gentleman  by 
the  name  of  Tom  Murphine,  paid  manager  of  the  Roosevelt  campaign,  and 
who  has  the  office  of  chairman  of  the  county  committee,  packed  into  a 
meetings  of  the  County  Central  Committee  131  men  who  had  never  been 


112  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 

elected,  who  were  appointed  by  himself  and  brought  into  that  meeting 
for  the  purpose  of  controlling  it. 

That  body,  so  unlawfully  constituted,  so  packed  by  Tom  Murphine, 
called  a  pretended  primary,  disregarded  the  mandatory  provisions  of  our 
law,  which  require  that  judges  shall  be  regularly  selected  at  the  caucus, 
and  provided  that  the  judges  should  be  appointed  by  himself,  provided 
that  a  committee  on  credentials  should  be  appointed,  if  you  please,  by 
himself,  this  same  Thomas  Murphine,  and  that  that  committee  should 
make  up  the  roll  of  the  convention. 

He  disregarded  the  mandatory  provision  of  our  statute  as  to  the 
holding  of  primaries.  Every  one  who  participated  in  those  primaries  was 
a  violator  of  the  law,  and  for  that  reason,  for  the  reason  that  the  law 
had  been  disregarded  in  the  calling  of  the  primary,  the  Taft  men  did 
not  participate  in  the  primaries  at  all. 

They  held  their  so-called  primary.  There  were  anywhere  from 
3,000  to  6,000  votes  cast  at  primaries  in  a  county  where  there  are  over 
100,000  qualified  voters.  It  was  upon  that  return  that  the  distinguished 
candidate  from  Oyster  Bay  declared,  in  a  speech  the  next  day  at  Boston, 
that  he  had  carried  the  city  of  Seattle  eight  to  one. 

I  must  conclude,  for  I  apprehend  that  the  time  allotted  to  me  has  ex- 
pired. Understand,  the  sole  reason  they  gave  for  not  attending  the  State 
Convention  was  that  our  State  Committee  had  passed  upon  this  contest 
from  King  County  and  had  rejected  the  delegation  so  unlawfully  at- 
tempted to  be  stolen  by  this  man  Thomas  Murphine;  and  understand  this, 
and  it  is  upon  a  level  with  the  proposition  which  the  distinguished  Gov- 
ernor of  Missouri  suggests  to  this  Convention.  They  learned  it  long  ago 
in  our  State.  As  soon  as  the  State  convention  was  called,  the  rule  was 
made  that  every  time  a  delegation  should  be  elected  in  any  county  for 
Mr.  Taft,  a  contest  based  upon  any  sort  of  flimsy  ground  or  no  ground 
at  all  should  be  initiated,  their  plain  purpose,  their  published  purpose,  their 
confessed  purpose  being  thus  to  disqualify  that  particular  delegation  to 
vote  upon  temporary  organization. 

MR.  WILLIAM  H.  HACKENBERG,  of  Pennsylvania. — How  were  the  Taft 
delegates  elected?  Who  elected  them? 

MR.  DOVELL,  of  Washington. — In  what  county? 

MR.  HACKENBERG,  of  Pennsylvania. — In  any  county. 

MR.  DOVELL,  of  Washington. — In  five  counties  the  delegates  to  the 
State  Convention  were  hand-picked.  In  three  of  those  counties  they 
were  for  Roosevelt,  and  in  two  they  were  for  Taft. 

MR.  HACKENBERG,  of  Pennsylvania. — Who  elected  the  Taft  delegates? 
Tell  us  that. 

MR.  DOVELL,  of  Washington. — I  am  trying  to  tell  you.  In  four  coun- 
ties there  wfe  so-called  preferential  primaries  held.  In  other  words, 
the  names  of  Taft  and  Roosevelt  were  placed  upon  the  ballot,  and  in 


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two  of  those  counties  the  Taft  adherents  prevailed,  and  in  two  the  Roose- 
velt delegates  prevailed. 

The  balance  of  the  delegates  to  the  State  Convention  were  regularly 
elected  at  primary  elections  held  under  the  law ;  and  when  it  was  dis- 
covered the  night  before  the  Convention  that  the  Taft  adherents  had  a 
clear  majority  of  those  entitled  to  sit,  the  adherents  of  Mr.  Roosevelt 
declined  to  come  to  the  Convention  when  they  knew  they  were  beaten, 
and  called  another  convention. 

I  have  come  here  from  my  far-off  State  to  place  my  hand  upon  my 
heart  and  tell  you  that  is  the  truth.  (Applause.) 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Gentlemen,  in  response  to  many  re- 
quests, the  Secretary  will  read  the  resolution  offered  by  the  gentleman 
from  Missouri  (Mr.  Hadley),  and  the  two  lists  referred  to  in  the  reso- 
lution, for  the  information  of  the  Convention. 

The  SECRETARY. — Mr.  Hadley,  of  Missouri,  moves  to  strike  from  the 
temporary  roll  of  the  Convention  the  names  on  List  No.  1,  as  follows : 


ALABAMA. 
Ninth  District. 

James  B.  Sloan Oneonta 

J.    Rivers   Carter Birmingham 

ARIZONA. 
At  Large. 
J.  L.  Hubbell 
J.  T.   Williams,  Jr. 
R.   H.   Freudenthal 
Robert  E.  Morrison 
F.   L.  Wright 
J.    C.    Adams 


ARKANSAS. 

Fifth  District. 

N.  B.  Burrow Altus 

S.  A.  Jones Little  Rock 

CALIFORNIA. 

Fourth  District. 

E.  H.  Tryon San  Francisco 

Morris   Meyerfeld,  Jr  .  San  Francisco 


INDIANA. 
Thirteenth   District. 

Clement  W.   Studebaker  .  South   Bend 
Maurice    Fox La    Porte 


KENTUCKY. 
Sci-enth   District. 

R.    C.    Stoll Lexington 

Tames    Cureton Newcastle 

Eighth  District. 

Coleman   C.   Wallace  ....  Richmond 
Leonard  W.  Bethurem  .  .  Mt.  Vernon 
Eleventh  District. 

O.  H.  Waddle Somerset 

H.    H.    Asher Wasioto 

MICHIGAN. 
At  Large. 

John    D.    MacKay Detroit 

William    J.    Richards  .   .  Crystal    Falls 

George    B.    Morley Saginaw 

Eugene    Fifield Bay    City 

Fred   A.    Diggins Cadillac 

\Villiam    Judson  ....  Grand    Rapids 

OKLAHOMA. 

Third  District. 

Tostph    A.    Gill Vinita 

J.   W.   Gilliland Holdenville 

TENNESSEE. 
Second  District. 

T.  A.  Wright Knoxville 

John    J.    Jennings,    Jr Jellico 

Arin*/i  District. 

John   B.   Tarrant Henning 

James    W.     Brown Brownsville 


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OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF  THE 


TEXAS. 
At  Large. 

H.   F.  McGregor Houston 

W.   C.  Averille Beaumont 

C.   K.   McDowell Del   Rio 

J.    E.    Lutz Vernon 

J.    E.    Elgin San   Antonio 

W.    H.    Love McKinney 

W.    M.    McDonald ....  Fort   Worth 
G.    W.    Burroughs ....  Fort   Worth 
Third  District. 

J.    W.    Smiley Tyler 

U.    S.    Franke Athens 

Fourth   District. 

A.  L.   Dyer Celina 

M.    C.    Sharp Denison 

Fifth  District. 

Eugene   Marshall Dallas 

Harry    Beck Hillsboro 

Seventh  District. 

J.   H.    Hawley Palestine 

H.   L.  Price Crocket 

Ed.    McCarthy Galveston 

B.  F.  Wallace Palestine 

Eighth  District. 

C.  A.    Warnken Houston 

Spencer     Graves Richmond 

Ninth  District. 

C.  M.  Hughes Wharton 

M.    M.   Rodgers La  Grange 

List  No.  2  of  those  proposed  to  be  seated  in  place  of  the  delegates  on 
List  No.  1  is  as  follows : 


Tenth  District. 

H.    M.    Moore Austin 

F.   L.   Welch Taylor 

Eleventh  District. 
T.   J.    Darling Temple 

B.  G.    Ward Marlin 

Fourteenth   District. 
J.   M.   Oppenheimer  .  .  .  San  Antonio 
John   Hall Lampasas 

WASHINGTON. 
At  Large. 

Howard    Cosgrove Seattle 

R.  M.  Condon 

E.  B.   Benn Aberdeen 

William    Jones Tacoma 

W.    T.    Dovell Seattle 

Peter    Mutty Port   Townsend 

M.   E.   Field Wenatchee 

A.    D.    Sloane 

First  District.   . 
Hugh   Eldridge 
Patrick     Halloran 

Second  District. 

F.  H.  Collins 

E.  B.  Hubbard. 

Third  District. 

C.  C.   Case 

W.  N.   Devine.  . 


ALABAMA. 
Ninth  District. 

Judge  O.   R.   Hundley  .   .  Birmingham 
George    R.    Lewis Bessemer 

ARIZONA. 
At  Large. 

Dwight    B.    Heard Phoenix 

E.    S.    Clark Prescott 

John   C.  Greenway Bisbee 

Ben.  F.  Daniels Tucson 

John   McK.    Redmond  ....  Florence 
Thomas   D.   Molloy Yuma 

ARKANSAS. 

Fifth  District. 

W.  S.  Holt Little  Rock 

H.   K.   Cochran  .  .  Little  Rock 


CALIFORNIA. 

Fourth  District. 

Charles  S.   Wheeler  .  .  San  Francisco 
Philip    Bancroft ....  San    Francisco 

INDIANA. 
Thirteenth   District. 

Putnam   R.   Judkins Goshen 

Frederick  W.  Kellar  .  .  .  South  Bend 

KENTUCKY. 
Seventh  District. 
Henry  T.  Duncan,  Jr. .  .  .  Lexington 

M.   C.   Rankin Scott 

Eighth  District. 

William    S.    Lawwill Danville 

H.    V.   Bastin Lancaster 

Eleventh  District. 
B.   J.    Bethurem Somerset 


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MICHIGAN. 

At  Large. 
Chase   S.   Osborn  .  .  Sault  Ste.   Marie 

Charles    A.    Nichols Detroit 

Sybrant  VVesselius  .  .  .  Grand   Rapids 

Theodore    Joslin Adrian 

Herbert  F.   Boughey  .  .  Traverse  City 
William    D.    Gordon Midland 

OKLAHOMA. 

Third  District. 

Alexander   A.    Dennison  .  .  Claremore 
A.  A.  Small Tulsa 

TENNESSEE. 

Second  District. 

H.    B.    Lindsay Knoxville 

John    C.    Houk 

Ninth  District. 

W.    F.    Poston Alamo 

G.  T.    Taylor Union    City 

TEXAS. 
At  Large. 

Cecil  A.  Lyon Sherman 

Ed   C    Lasater Falfurias 

H.    L.    Borden Houston 

Joe    E.    Williams Hamilton 

Lewis  Lindsay Gainesville 

J.    O.    Terrell San    Antonio 

J.    M.    McCormick Dallas 

Sam    Davidson Fort    Worth 

Third  District. 

F.    N.    Hopkins Alba 

J.   L.   Jackson Tyler 

Fourth  District. 

R.   H.    Crabb Leonard 

R.    F.    Akridge Wolfe    City 

Fifth  District. 

O.    E.    Schow Clifton 

W.    B.   Franks  .  .  .  Palmer 


Seventh  District. 

G.   W.    Burkett Galveston 

C.    A.    Clinton Palestine 

Eighth  District. 

W.    A.    Matheis Bellville 

E.     W.     Atkinson Navasota 

Ninth  District. 

Fritz  R.  Korth Kames  City 

J.    M.   Haller Yoakum 

Tenth  District. 

M.  M.  Turney Smithville 

Harvey  C.    Stiles San   Marco 

Eleventh  District. 
C.  C.  Baker 

J.    W.    Cocke 

Fourteenth   District. 

G.  N.  Harrison Brownwood 

Robert    Penninger    .  .  Fredericksburg 

WASHINGTON. 

At  Large. 

Miles  Poindexter Spokane 

Thomas   F.    Murphine Seattle 

S.  A.   D.  Glasscock  ....  Bellingham 

Robert    Moran Rosario 

Donald    McMaster Vancouver 

O.   C.   Moore Spokane 

W.    L.   Johnson Colville 

N.     S.     Richards Oakville 

First  District. 

Frank    R.    Pendleton Everett 

James    A.    Johnson Seattle 

Second  District. 

Thomas     Crawford Centralia 

Thomas   Geisness  ....  Port   Angeles 

Third  District. 

L.    Roy    Slater Spokane 

T.  C.  Elliott .  .  Walla  Walla 


The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  recognizes  the  gentleman 
from  Missouri  (Mr.  Hadley). 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — I  yield  twenty  minutes  to  the  gentleman 
from  Kansas,  Mr.  Henry  J.  Allen. 

MR.  HENRY  J.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas. — Gentlemen  of  the  Convention, 
ladies  and  gentlemen,  the  thing  I  liked  best  in  the  magnificent  and  high- 
class  address  which  our  distinguished  Temporary  Chairman  made  last 
night  was  this :  "We  will  keep  the  covenant  of  our  fathers."  (Applause.) 

That  covenant  was  between  the  weak  and  the  strong.  That  covenant 
was  between  the  national  people  and  every  individual  in  the  Republic. 
I  am  here  to  represent  the  State  of  Washington,  because  the  regularly 


116  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 

entitled.  Mr.  Roosevelt  got  the  rest  of  the  vote.  (Applause.) 
elected  delegation  from  that  State,  headed  by  Senator  Poindexter,  was 
ruled  out  of  this  Convention  without  one  moment's  examination  of  the 
record.  It  was  ruled  out  upon  just  such  flimsy  statements  as  you  have 
heard  here,  made  by  the  gentleman  who  tePs  you  he  came  a  long  way 
Taft  got  500  votes,  and  that  is  about  the  percentage  to  which  he  was 
to  cross  his  heart  and  make  that  statement.  I  will  not  cross  my  heart. 
There  is  something  better  than  that.  I  have  200  pounds  of  record  from 
Washington.  I  have  the  brief  of  the  gentleman,  that  has  entirely  too 
little  to  say,  even  in  a  brief,  and  I  have  the  roll  of  Kings  County.  He 
tells  us  that  from  3,000  to  6,000  people  voted  in  that  primary,  and  Mr. 

I  have  the  polling  list  containing  the  name  of  every  man  who  voted, 
and  his  place  of  residence — 200  pounds  of  lists.  The  majority  of  the  Na- 
tional Committee  did  not  ask  to  see  these  records.  The  Committee  heard 
the  statement  of  the  gentleman  who  preceded  me.  Then  they  heard  the 
plea  of  Senator  Poindexter  and  his  attorney  that  they  be  allowed  to 
submit  the  records,  and  to  offer  them  in  evidence.  Then  these  two  gentle- 
men were  dismissed,  and  Senator  Poindexter,  with  the  vigorous  stride  of 
a  man  who  did  not  feel  too  well  pleased  anyway,  but  who  wanted  to 
hurry  over  to  headquarters  and  lay  his  head  on  the  bosom  of  some  gen- 
tleman and  tell  him  his  troubles,  started  in  that  direction.  He  is  a  tall 
man,  who  takes  two  steps  at  a  time;  but  before  he  had  reached  the  door 
a  newspaper  man  passed  him  and  said,  "Senator,  they  have  just  unseated 
you." 

So  they  got  a  dray  and  hauled  back  to  the  hotel  the  records  in  the 
Washington  case,  but  the  Committee  would  not  look  at  them,  and  I  have 
them  now. 

MR.  CYRUS  M.  CRIM,  of  Indiana. — Who  wrote  them? 

MR.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas. — Some  one  asks  me  who  wrote  them.  I 
reply,  the  people  of  Washington  wrote  them. 

The  gentleman  who  took  care  of  the  Washington  case  having  crossed 
his  heart,  talked  all  the  time  about  King  County.  I  will  pass  King 
County  for  a  moment.  He  said  nothing  about  the  County  of  Chelan,  did 
he?  Have  you  seen  anything  in  his  brief  about  the  county  of  Chelan? 

The  State  Central  Committee  of  Washington  called  a  meeting  and 
recommended  to  the  counties  that  they  elect  delegates  to  the  State  Con- 
vention. The  power  of  the  County  Committee  was  to  provide  the  method. 
Now  in  Chelan  County  a  majority  of  the  County  Central  Committee, 
which  was  regular,  called  a  primary  to  select  fifty-five  delegates  to  the 
County  Convention.  They  met.  There  was  no  contest ;  there  was  no  shadow 
of  irregularity.  They  met  as  farmers  and  merchants  meet  in  every  one  of 
these  great  Western  and  Central  Western  States,  secure  in  the  rights  of 
the  majority.  When  they  got  to  the  place  where  the  Convention  was 
to  be  held  (they  met  at  eleven  o'clock  in  the  morning),  they  took  a  vote 


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upon  Temporary  Chairman.  Mr.  D.  D.  Olds,  the  Roosevelt  candidate, 
was  elected.  The  Taft  man  got  22  votes  out  of  55.  Then,  having  had 
some  appropriate  remarks  about  the  action  of  our  great  party,  they  went 
to  dinner.  They  adjourned  until  one  o'clock  to  wait  for  the  report  of  the 
committee  on  credentials.  There  was  no  trouble  up  to  that  time.  Then 
at  one  o'clock,  when  they  met,  the  22  members  who  had  been  elected  for 
Mr.  Taft  did  not  return.  They  went  elsewhere  and  put  up  a  delegation 
elected  by  a  rump  convention. 

After  they  had  taken  ten  counties  away  from  Mr.  Roosevelt  in 
Washington  they  then  had  the  State  Convention  by  three  majority.  Eight 
of  their  votes  came  from  the  County  of  Chelan.  Will  any  of  you  men 
endorse  a  proposition  like  Chelan  County? 

This  was  the  only  convention  in  Chelan  County.  They  have  not 
mentioned  that  in  their  brief.  Why?  It  is  not  possible  for  them  to  men- 
tion it  without  showing  the  absolute  fraud  of  their  situation.  Give  us 
Chelan  County,  and  you  can  take  King  County,  and  we  will  still  have 
the  Convention. 

A  DELEGATE. — How  many  delegates? 

Here  a  clamorous  discussion  arose  as  to  the  number  of  delegates 
claimed  for  Roosevelt  in  the  Convention. 

MR.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas. — Gentlemen,  you  have  not  got  anything  until 
this  Convention  is  over,  and  then  the  Lord  only  knows  what  you  have  got. 

MR.  WILLIAM  E.  ENGLISH,  of  Indiana. — Are  you  going  to  abide  by 
the  decision  of  this  Convention? 

MR.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas. — Sit  down  until  I  can  answer.  I  demand  that 
you  sit  down,  and  I  will  answer  you.  Am  I  going  to  abide  by  the  de- 
cision of  this  Convention? 

MR.  ENGLISH,  of  Indiana.— Will  you  support  its  nominee? 

MR.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas. — I  want  to  support  the  nominee  of  the  Con- 
vention more  than  I  want  to  do  anything  else  in  all  my  life.  I  will  sup- 
port the  nominee  of  this  Convention,  but  only  on  one  condition. 

MR.  HARTFORD,  of  New  Hampshire  rose. 

MR.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas.— Hear  me.  I  will  support  the  nominee  of 
this  Convention  upon  the  one  condition  that  his  nomination  is  not  ac- 
complished by  fraud  and  thievery.  (Applause.)  Let  me  ask  you  a  ques- 
tion. Will  you  support  the  nominee  of  this  Convention  if  he  steals  the 
nomination  ? 

MR.  P.  A.  PARRY,  of  Indiana.— Who  shall  be  the  judge? 

MR.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas.— Now,  gentlemen,  hear  me.  Do  you  want 
the  facts? 

MR.  JOSIAH  T.  NEWCOMB,  of  New  York.— I  rise  to  a  point  of  order. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN.— The  gentleman  will  state  his  point  of 
order. 


118  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  appeal  that  the  gentleman  from  Kansas 
may  have  an  opportunity  to  be  heard. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  New  York  rises 
to  a  point  of  order.  He  will  state  it. 

MR.  NEWCOMB,  of  New  York. — There  are  numerous  delegates  in  this 
Convention  who  are  anxious  to  get  the  facts  of  each  separate  case.  I 
assume  those  facts  are  being  presented  to  the  Convention.  The  point 
of  order  I  make  is  that  interruptions  not  germane  to  that  matter  are  out 
of  order  and  should  not  be  permitted. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  point  of  order  is  well  taken.  Dele- 
gates will  refrain  from  interrupting  the  speaker,  and  the  Chair  calls 
attention  to  the  fact  that  interruptions  of  speakers  upon  one  side  lead 
naturally  to  interruptions  of  speakers  upon  the  other  side.  Let  us  have 
fair  play  for  each  side!  (Applause.) 

MR.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas. — Bear  in  mind  that  ten  contested  delegations 
had  been  seated  in  the  State  of  Washington  without  the  shadow  of  right 
or  argument  by  Mr.  Taft's  friends.  They  had  then  three  majority  in  the 
Convention.  I  told  you  about  Chelan  County.  If  they  had  given  us 
Chelan  County,  to  which  we  were  entitled  by  every  right  of  part}'  regu- 
larity, we  would  have  had  five  majority  in  the  Convention. 

In  Asotin  County  they  have  11  members  of  the  County  Committee. 
Three  of  them,  accompanied  by  two  citizens  who  had  neither  proxy  nor 
right  of  title,  met  and  selected  a  delegation  to  the  State  Convention.  Six 
members  of  it — some  say  five,  some  say  four,  some  say  a  majority — met, 
and  they  called  a  mass  meeting,  and  elected  a  delegate.  So  both  sides  were 
irregular.  If  the  Committee  had  decided  that  both  sides  were  irregular 
and  had  thrown  out  both  delegations,  the  Roosevelt  men  would  have  had 
a  majority  in  the  State  Convention. 

As  to  King  County,  the  County  Central  Committee,  composed  of 
400  members,  under  rules  provided,  called  a  primary  for  that  county,  at 
which  primary  7,000,  or,  to  be  exact,  6,900  people  came  out  and  voted. 
You  asked  the  gentleman  who  preceded  me  how  many  people  voted  for 
the  Taft  delegation.  I  will  tell  you.  Twelve  men  who  were  members 
of  the  County  Central  Committee — calling  themselves,  because  they  had 
to  give  themselves  some  authority,  the  Executive  Committee,  because  they 
had  once  been  members  of  an  Executive  Committee,  though  their  au- 
thority had  been  taken  away — selected  121  delegates  to  the  State  Con- 
vention. Even  if  you  concede  they  were  the  Executive  Committee,  there  is 
nothing  in  the  law,  nothing  in  the  regulations  of  the  State  Central  Com- 
mittee that  would  give  them  authority  to  select  121  delegates  to  the 
State  Convention  of  Washington.  Here  you  have  6,900  people  in  Seattle 
who  came  out  and  voted,  and  of  that  number  6.400  voted  for  Roosevelt, 
500  came  out  and  voted  for  Mr.  Taft ;  and  that  delegation,  headed  by 
the  distinguished  Senator  from  Washington  (Mr.  Poindexter)  is  unseated 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  119 

because  twelve  men  who  sat  upon  the  County  Committee  of  King  County 
arrogated  to  themselves  the  right  to  speak  for  the  greatest  county  in  the 
State  of  Washington. 

MR.  PARSONS,  of  New  York. — May  I  ask  the  gentleman  from  Kansas 
a  question? 

MR.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas. — Certainly. 

MR.  PARSONS,  of  New  York. — How  many  voters  are  there  in  King 
County  ? 

MR.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas. — I  should  say  in  King  County  there  must  be 
50,000  voters. 

MR.  PARSONS,  of  New  York. — The  other  gentleman  said  100,000. 

MR.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas. — There  may  be,  if  he  crosses  his  heart  on 
that  also,  a  hundred  thousand  voters.  But  say  there  are  a  hundred  thou- 
sand voters. 

What  did  the  Committee  do  in  the  Fifth  district  of  Missouri?  There 
we  had  150,000  voters.  A  primary  was  called.  Mr.  Roosevelt  got  5,500 
votes  in  that  primary,  Mr.  Taft  got  less  than  400  votes  in  that  primary, 
and  yet  the  National  Committee  seated  that  Taft  delegation.  (  Applause.) 

My  friends,  if  they  had  said :  "We  cannot  arrive  at  the  regularity 
of  either  one  of  these  delegations  from  King  County  and  therefore  we 
are  going  to  divide  them,"  we  would  have  had  80  majority  in  Washing- 
ton. If  they  had  said,  "We  unseat  them  both,"  we  would  have  had  a 
still  bigger  majority.  If  they  had  said,  "We  do  not  understand  this; 
there  are  so  many  men  bringing  so  many  statements,  we  will  give  this 
county  to  Taft,"  and  had  followed  party  regularity,  about  which  you 
are  preaching,  in  Chelan  and  Asotin  counties,  we  would  have  had  a  ma- 
jority in  the  State  Convention  at  Aberdeen  on  the  15th  of  May. 

MR.  PARSONS,  of  New  York. — Did  they  go  to  the  State  Convention? 

MR.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas. — They  did,  and  there  is  the  shame  of  the  sit- 
uation. When  they  got  to  the  State  Convention  they  found  that  the 
State  Central  Committee  had  considered  it  necessary,  there  in  that  little 
State,  where  ordinary  processes  have  always  been  exercised  in  party 
matters,  to  hold  a  night  meeting  and  make  up  a  roll,  and  then  to  get  up 
tickets  to  be  given  to  the  men  whom  they  had  placed  upon  the  roll. 
They  were  not  going  to  give  any  tickets  to  the  King  County,  to  the  Che- 
lan County,  to  the  Asotin  County  people,  except  tickets  to  the  Taft  men, 
who  had  no  right  to  sit  in  that  Convention,  and  then  for  fear  that  the 
Roosevelt  men  had  won  the  right  to  sit  in  that  Convention,  having  the 
right  on  their  side,  they  left  the  tickets  six  blocks  away,  and  when  a 
man  came  in  from  the  country  and  went  to  the  door  of  the  Convention, 
he  was  asked:  "Where  is  your  ticket?  You  must  have  a  ticket."  He 
would  reply:  "I  did  not  know  we  had  to  have  tickets."  The  doorkeeper 
would  say:  "Yes,  you  must  have  a  ticket."  The  man  would  say:  "What 
is  the  idea  of  having  a  ticket?"  and  the  reply  was:  "You  must  have  a 


120  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

ticket."  I  have  a  photograph  of  the  Convention  doors,  with  its  prize- 
fighters, and  twenty  policemen  guarding  the  doors.  (Applause.)  And  if 
a  man  went  after  his  ticket,  he  knew  the  Convention  would  be  over  before 
he  got  back. 

What  would  you  have  done?  These  men  who  had  the  regular  ma- 
jority in  that  Convention  were  forced  to  go  and  hold  a  Convention  else- 
where. The  entire  plan  was  to  force  the  regularly  elected  delegates  away 
from  the  Convention  Hall,  in  order  that  they  might  bring  here  from 
Washington  to  a  biased  National  Committee  a  pretense  upon  which  a 
fraudulent  delegation  might  be  seated.  (Applause.) 

You  ask  us  why  we  do  not  wait  until  the  Committee  on  Credentials 
has  passed  upon  the  matter.  Let  me  ask  you  why  you  do  not  wait  until 
your  horse  is  stolen  before  you  lock  your  stable  door?  (Applause.)  If 
you  make  a  Committee  on  Credentials,  selecting  members  from  all  the 
Southern  States,  who  have  not  earned  their  right  to  a  seat  here — select- 
ing a  Credentials  Committee  from  the  contested  delegation,  do  you  think 
we  will  have  any  better  chance  than  we  have  upon  the  temporary  roll? 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  time  of  the  gentleman  from  Kan- 
sas has  expired. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  yield  to  my  colleague,  Senator  Hemen- 
way. 

MR.  HAROLD  HOBBS,  of  Indiana. — He  is  a  contested  delegate  himself. 

MR.  HARRY  S.  NEW,  of  Indiana. — He  is  not. 

MR.  HOBBS,  of  Indiana. — Yes,  he  is. 
1        MR.  NEW,  of  Indiana. — Why  do  you  say  he  is?    He  is  not. 

MR.  JAMES  A.  HEMENWAY,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentle- 
men of  the  Convention:  I  am  not  here  to  appeal  to  the  prejudice  of  any 
delegate  in  this  Convention,  whether  he  be  for  Taft  or  Roosevelt,  but 
I  am  here  to  discuss  with  you  the  question  pending  before  the  Convention. 

Under  the  rules  of  the  Republican  party  a  National  Committee  is 
formed,  and  for  years  that  National  Committee  has  made  up  the  tem- 
porary roll  for  the  National  Convention.  Following  the  usual  procedure, 
the  National  Committee  met  at  Chicago,  and  for  something  like  two 
weeks  they  heard  evidence  presented  on  each  side,  and  determined  the 
various  contests  that  were  presented  to  them,  hearing  both  evidence  and 
argument  of  counsel  before  any  of  the  cases  were  determined.  There 
were  53  members  of  the  National  Committee.  Thirteen  members  of 
that  body  now  come  before  this  Convention  and  say  to  you  that  because 
their  views  were  not  accepted  in  all  of  those  cases,  this  Convention  ought, 
without  hearing  the  evidence,  and  only  being  able  to  hear  the  argument 
of  counsel,  to  reverse  the  action  of  the  majority  and  accept  the  views  of 
the  minority.  (Applause.) 

There  were  thirteen  members  and  one  proxy  who  signed  this  protest 
and  there  were  39  members  of  the  National  Committee  who  did  not  sign 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  121 

it.  In  other  words,  who  are  they?  Some  one  said  that  the  majority  of 
the  committee  has  been  repudiated.  I  want  to  say  that  of  the  minority 
all  of  them  but  three  have  been  left  off.  I  do  not  stand  here  to  say  that 
because  they  were  left  off  they  were  repudiated. 

MR.  QUAY,  of  Pennsylvania. — Name  them. 

MR.  HEMENWAY,  of  Indiana. — You  gentlemen  in  the  Pennsylvania 
delegation,  listen  to  me.  I  am  making  an  argument.  You  do  not  want 
to  hear  an  argument ! 

I  am  not  saying  that  the  men  who  were  not  re-elected  on  the  Na- 
tional Committee  were  repudiated.  I  know  they  were  not  repudiated. 
I  do  not  believe  that  Borah  and  Kellogg  were  repudiated.  They  did  not 
want  to  go  back  on  the  Committee.  I  know  that  Harry  New  was  not 
repudiated.  He  did  not  want  to  go  back  on  the  Committee.  I  only  bring 
that  out  in  answer  to  your  question. 

Who  are  they?  Who  of  your  minority  of  14  were  re-elected?  I  have 
no  objection  to  these  gentlemen,  but  I  am  not  especially  proud  of  T.  C. 
Du  Pont,  of  the  powder  trust.  He  is  no  better  than  Harry  S.  New,  of 
Indiana.  He  is  no  better  than  hundreds  of  men  who  have  come  to  this 
Convention.  I  would  ««ot  believe  him  any  quicker  than  I  would  the  word 
of  any  distinguished  gentleman  composing  the  39  members  of  the  Na- 
tional Committee  who  present  the  majority  report.  Get  this  into  your 
minds,  delegates.  You  can  only  hear  the  arguments  of  counsel  here. 
This  Convention  cannot  hear  the  evidence  in  these  cases.  It  can  hear 
only  the  arguments  of  counsel. 

What  is  it  we  propose?  In  the  first  place,  following  the  rules  of 
law  and  order  and  good  sense,  these  contests  have  been  heard  once. 
The  evidence  was  heard.  The  arguments  were  made.  What  do  we  pro- 
pose next?  That  a  Committee  on  Credentials,  made  up  by  the  Con- 
vention, consisting  of  one  member  from  each  State,  shall  go  out  again 
and  give  the  contested  delegates  another  chance  to  appear  before  that 
Committee,  and  present  their  evidence,  be  represented  by  counsel,  and 
have  their  cases  decided  over  again,  so  that  if  the  National  Committee 
were  mistaken,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of  this  Convention  can 
correct  the  mistake.  That  is  what  we  propose.  (Applause.) 

Now,  upon  the  other  hand,  what  is  the  contention  of  the  minority? 
The  National  Committee  have  performed.  The  Committee  on  Creden- 
tials, when  appointed,  will  be  ready  to  perform.  But  they  say  that  is 
not  fair,  that  Governor  Hadley,  of  Missouri,  has  a  better  notion  of  who 
are  entitled  to  seats  in  this  Convention  than  your  Committee  on  Creden- 
tials would  have  or  the  National  Committee  have,  and  they  are  asking 
you  here  to  substitute,  upon  the  request  of  thirteen  members  of  the  Na- 
tional Committee  and  Governor  Hadley,  a  list  of  names,  when  this  Con- 
vention cannot  hear  any  of  the  evidence  in  any  of  the  cases,  and  can 


122  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

only    listen   to   the   argument   of   some   man    from   this    platform.      (Ap- 
plause.) 

Now  let  us  go  briefly  into  one  of  the  cases  with  which  I  am  fa- 
miliar. 

Early  in  the  fight  we  had  some  conventions  in  Indiana.  We  had  a 
primary  election  in  Indianapolis.  The  day  after  that  primary  election  the 
declaration  of  a  distinguished  candidate  for  President  was  published  all 
over  the  United  States,  saying  that  it  was  fraudulent,  wicked.  Everybody 
was  led  to  believe — that  is,  everybody  whom  he  or  his  friends  could  so 
lead — that  we  had  a  fraudulent  and  wicked  election.  What  happened? 
When  we  came  before  the  National  Committee,  what  happened?  I  took 
it  up,  precinct  by  precinct,  and  I  asked  the  gentlemen  who  said  that  fraud 
had  been  committed  to  furnish  one  affidavit  or  one  sworn  statement,  that 
any  man,  naming  him,  had  voted,  who  was  not  entitled  to  vote.  Not  one 
single  affidavit  or  sworn  statement  was  furnished,  naming  any  man  who 
had  cast  an  illegal  vote.  They  said  hundreds  of  repeaters  had  voted, 
and,  precinct  by  precinct,  I  asked  them,  "Will  you  name  one  man,  Peter 
Smith  or  Tom  Jones  or  any  one  else,  who  repeated  in  any  precinct?" 
Not  a  single  affidavit  of  any  kind  was  supplied. 

When  they  got  through,  Borah  and  Kellogg  and  all  these  gentlemen 
on  this  list,  by  a  unanimous  vote,  voted  to  seat  that  delegation,  when 
these  men  had  said  that  it  was  absolutely  reeking  with  fraud.  Several 
such  contests  were  before  the  Committee,  which  had  not  any  merit  in 
them  from  start  to  finish. 

Take  the  Alabama  cases.  There  was  a  contest  from  nearly  every 
district  in  Alabama,  filed  by  Mr.  Roosevelt's  friends.  When  the  National 
Committee  decided  those  contests,  what  did  we  hear?  That  Mr.  Roose- 
velt himself  said  he  expected  to  win  only  one  of  them.  There  were  ten 
or  fifteen  of  them.  What  were  they  filed  for?  To  furnish  a  basis  for 
what ;  and  what  are  the  gentlemen  doing  here  to-day — hollering  fraud 
where  there  is  no  fraud.  (Applause.)  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention, 
take  briefly  the  Texas  case.  I  see  sitting  out  here  before  me  men  who 
served  back  with  Hawley  in  the  Congress  of  the  United  States.  He  car- 
ried a  Texas  district.  We  had  built  up  a  Republican  party  down  there. 
We  had  160,000  Republican  votes.  Then  it  was  turned  over  to  Colonel 
Cecil  Lyon.  What  has  he  done  to  us?  Think  of  it!  Cecil  Lyon  has 
controlled  for  twelve  years  5,000  appointments — more  than  any  four 
United  States  Senators.  His  will  was  law.  Every  man  he  recommended 
was  appointed;  and  during  those  twelve  years  he  has  reduced  the  Re- 
publican vote,  and  reduced  it  and  reduced  it  until  last  time  we  got  about 
26,000.  Cecil  Lyon  has  driven  away  from  the  Republican  party  five-sixths 
of  the  Republicans  we  had  in  Texas.  Why  does  he  want  to  do  it?  If  he 
could  drive  away  about  20,000  more  we  would  have  nothing  but  the  office- 
holders, and  then  Cecil  Lyon  would  have  an  absolute  cinch  on  forty 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  123 

votes  in  the  Republican  Convention. 

What  happened  down  there  this  time?  We  still  have  a  lot  of  Re- 
publican voters  in  Texas,  and  those  counties  where  any  Republicans  live, 
we  carried  by  the  ratio  of  about  9  to  1.  But  Cecil  Lyon  comes  along 
with  a  lot  of  votes  from  counties  in  Texas  where  there  are  no  Repub- 
licans, and  appoints  his  friends  to  represent  those  counties,  giving  each 
county  one  delegate,  when  there  are  126  counties  in  Texas  where  we  have 
practically  no  Republicans.  Why?  God  bless  Cecil,  if  he  could  get  rid 
of  the  other  20,000  Republicans,  with  his  5,000  office-holders,  he  could 
deliver  40  votes  here  every  time. 

Gentlemen,  that  kind  of  fraud  must  cease.  (Applause.)  Mr.  Lyon 
can  no  longer  work  it  on  Republican  National  Conventions. 

We  recognized  for  the  first  time — and  I  went  into  the  evidence  care- 
fully— that  the  Republican  voters  of  Texas  have  chosen  the  delegates  who 
have  come  here,  backed  by  the  Republican  vote,  not  by  the  army  of 
office-holders  down  there  appointed  by  Cecil  Lyon ;  and  this  Convention 
should  stand  by  their  action. 

In  conclusion,  gentlemen,  let  me  put  it  again,  just  as  I  started: 
These  contests  have  all  been  decided  by  the  National  Committee,  and  on 
that  list  of  names  from  every  State  are  men  that  the  vile  tongue  of 
slander  cannot  affect.  (Applause.) 

MR.  JOHN  C.  DIGHT,  of  Pennsylvania. — Did  not  Pennsylvania  repudi- 
ate Penrose? 

MR.  HEMENWAY,  of  Indiana. — Pennsylvania  asks  me  to  answer  about 
Penrose.  Penrose  above  Flinn  every  day  in  the  week!  (Applause.) 

MR.  WILLIAM  H.  COLEMAN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Who  is  slandering 
now? 

MR.  ZIBA  T.  MOORE,  of  Pennsylvania. — Your  statement  is  one  man 
against  125,000. 

MR.  PHILLIP  J.  BARBER,  of  Pennsylvania. — Why  is  Olmsted  sitting  on 
the  platform? 

MR.  HEMENWAY,  of  Indiana. — I  want  to  conclude  as  I  started.  These 
cases  must  be  tried  upon  the  evidence — 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN.— If  the  gentleman  in  the  Pennsylvania 
delegation  wishes  to  commend  his  cause  to  the  just  and  honest  people 
of  this  Convention  and  of  this  country,  he  will  cease  to  interfere  with 
the  hearing  of  reasonable  and  decent  argument.  (Applause.) 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Mr    Chairman — 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — There  will  be  order  in  this  Conven- 
tion, or  the  men  who  are  responsible  for  the  disorder  will  suffer  for  it  in 
the  estimation  of  the  American  people  and  in  the  action  of  this  Con- 
vention. (Applause.) 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  want  to  raise  a  point  of 
order. 


124  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  Pennsylvania  will 
take  his  seat  or  the  Sergeant-at-Arms 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  rise  to  a  point  of  order. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  will  state  his  point  of 
order. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — My  point  of  order  is  that 
the  gentleman's  remarks  are  irrelevant;  that  neither  Penrose  nor  Flinn 
has  anything  to  do  with  it. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  point  of  order  is  not  well  taken, 
and  the  gentleman  from  Pennsylvania  will  take  his  seat.  When  the  Con- 
vention is  in  order,  the  gentleman  from  Indiana  will  proceed.  (A  pause.) 
The  gentleman  will  proceed. 

MR.  HEMENWAY,  of  Indiana. — I  want  to  conclude  as  I  started.  These 
cases  can  only  be  heard  and  determined  where  there  is  ample  opportunity 
to  hear  the  evidence  on  both  sides.  They  have  been  determined  by  the 
National  Committee,  after  hearing  the  evidence  on  both  sides,  and  the 
arguments  of  counsel  for  the  respective  sides. 

In  all  the  history  of  National  Conventions  there  were  never  less 
votes  taken  without  a  roll  call.  In  nearly  all  these  cases  the  action  of 
the  Committee  was  unanimous;  but  in  the  cases  where  it  was  not  unani- 
mous the  evidence  was  heard;  the  cases  were  argued  by  counsel  on  Hther 
side;  and  finally  the  question  was  determined. 

Now,  this  makes  up  our  temporary  roll.  The  orderly  procedure  is 
this — to  proceed  as  we  have  always  proceeded,  appointing  a  Committee 
on  Credentials,  on  which  each  State  is  represented.  Certainly  no  one  can 
complain  of  that.  Whoever  complains  that  the  National  Committee  did 
not  properly  settle  his  case  can  go  to  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  where 
evidence  and  argument  can  be  heard  on  either  side,  and  where  these 
cases  can  be  intelligently  and  rightfully  settled.  Every  sane  delegate  here 
knows  that  this  Convention,  sitting  as  a  whole,  cannot  hear  the  evidence. 
It  can  only  hear  the  argument  of  counsel.  So  I  appeal  to  you,  be  orderly, 
be  fair,  and  if  you  have  a  grievance  as  to  the  action  of  the  National 
Committee,  submit  it  to  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of  this  Convention. 

I  thank  you  for  your  courtesy. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Judge  Record,  of  New  Jersey,  will 
speak  in  support  of  the  motion  of  Governor  Hadley. 

MR.  GEORGE  L.  RECORD,  of  New  Jersey. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen 
of  the  Convention:  I  have  been  designated  by  Governor  Hadley  to  pre- 
sent to  you  some  details  of  the  Arizona  and  Indiana  cases,  and  if  I  may 
have  the  attention  of  the  Convention  I  think  you  will  find  the  recital  one 
of  uncommon  human  interest. 

There  was  presented  before  the  Committee  on  Credentials  the  posi- 
tion of  Arizona  in  support  of  its  contested  delegates.  The  Arizona  State 
Convention  gathered  in  a  hall,  and  immediately  dissolved  into  two  con- 


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flicting  parts.  The  question  presented  for  solution  was  which  of  the  two 
contesting  parts  was  the  legal  convention,  entitled  to  send  delegates  to 
this  Convention. 

The  question  comes  upon  the  delegations  from  two  separate  coun- 
ties. In  the  first  county,  Cochise,  under  the  law  the  precinct  committee- 
men  were  entitled  either  to  order  a  primary  or  themselves  to  select  the 
delegates  to  the  State  Convention.  They  started  to  hold  a  meeting  to 
appoint  a  time  for  the  selection  of  delegates,  whereupon  the  chairman  and 
seven  other  members  of  the  committee  left  the  hall  with  thirteen  proxies 
and  disappeared,  and  the  political  history  of  Arizona  makes  no  mention 
of  their  subsequent  appearance  anywhere  on  earth.  Whatever  they  did 
and  where  they  did  it,  it  was  the  action  of  an  inconsequential  minority 
of  the  precinct  committeemen  of  that  county,  and  the  majority  of  the 
committeemen  of  that  county  met  in  due  order,  with  a  clean  majority  in 
person  and  by  proxy,  and  selected  the  delegates  to  the  State  Convention. 

In  Maricopa  County  the  contest  turned  in  the  precinct  committee 
meeting  upon  the  question  as  to  whether  or  not  there  should  be  a  pri- 
mary, or  whether  the  precinct  committeemen  should  select  the  delegates. 
I  call  your  attention  to  that,  because  it  is  of  the  utmost  importance.  Our 
side  stood  for  a  public  primary.  Their  side  stood  for  the  hand-picked 
delegates  selected  by  the  precinct  committeemen. 

By  a  clean  majority  we  ordered  a  public  primary  to  be  held,  and 
that  public  primary  was  held  on  the  25th  day  of  the  month,  and  it  was 
manned  and  officered  by  men  who  had  the  confidence  of  the  community, 
the  most  reputable  men  in  that  section  of  the  State.  And  at  those  pri- 
maries there  voted  for  the  Colonel.  Roosevelt  delegates  950,  and  against 
him  and  for  the  Taft  delegates  there  voted  11  men. 

A  DELEGATE. — Please  repeat  that  statement. 

MR.  RECORD,  of  New  Jersey. — I  am  asked  to  repeat  the  statement 
with  reference  to  Maricopa  County,  and  it  is  important,  because  upon  it 
turns  the  whole  question  of  the  control  of  the  State  Convention. 

On  the  15th  day  of  May  the  precinct  committeemen,  elected  a  year 
previous,  met  together  and  they  had  the  right  even  to  appoint  a  subse- 
quent day  and  pick  out  the  delegation  to  the  State  Convention,  or  they 
had  the  right  to  order  a  primary  on  the  25th  day  of  May.  By  a  vote  of 
22  to  19,  two  Taft  men  voting  with  them,  they  voted  in  favor  of  a  public 
primary  on  the  25th,  and  on  the  25th  a  public  primary  was  held,  officered 
by  the  best  men  in  that  count}',  and  at  that  primary  950  votes  were  cast 
for  the  Roosevelt  delegates  and  11  votes  were  cast  for  the  Taft  delegates. 
(Applause.)  The  largest  vote  that  was  ever  cast  at  any  Republican  pri- 
mary in  that  county  was  1,200,  so  that  the  vote  cast  for  the  Roosevelt 
delegates  was  a  full  party  vote,  and  was  entitled  to  be  considered  as  rep- 
resenting the  will  of  the  voters. 

Now,   the    other   people   held   a   subsequent   meeting  and   picked   out 


126  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 

delegates  to  the  State  Convention,  and  at  that  meeting  there  were  present 
only  an  insignificant  minority  of  the  men  entitled  to  act  if  that  was  the 
legal  way  to  proceed. 

I  call  your  attention  to  the  fact  that  the  fight  between  us  there  was 
the  fight  that  takes  place  everywhere  as  people  divide.  We  desired  to 
submit  our  cause  to  the  party  voters.  They  desired  to  meet  in  a  closed 
room  with  party  managers,  and  pick  out  men  who  were  not  desired  by 
the  party  voters.  Upon  that  statement  we  submitted  the  contest  of 
Arizona,  and  upon  those  two  counties  we  would  be  clearly  entitled  to 
control  the  State  Convention  by  a  majority  of  the  delegates,  and  that 
majority  sat  and  picked  out  the  men  who  should  come  here. 

Our  opponents  make  no  pretense  that  their  men  were  honestly  elected. 
They  pretend  only  that  they  had  the  certificates  signed  by  the  regular 
officials  of  the  party.  They  refused  to  go  behind  the  certificate  of  regu- 
larity and  to  examine  into  the  details  of  the  case.  That  is  the  indictment 
that  we  bring  against  this  whole  proceeding. 

Upon  that  Arizona  case  we  rest  a  part  of  our  argument.  We  say 
that  these  men  ought  properly  to  be  seated  in  this  Convention,  and  we 
say  further  that  we  are  willing  to  go  to  a  vote  in  this  Convention  if  our 
men  are  excluded  and  their  men  are  also  excluded.  (Applause.)  We 
speak  for  the  principle  of  fair  play. 

MR.  FRANCIS  E.  McGovERN,  of  Wisconsin. — Mr.  Chairman,  with  the 
permission  of  the  gentleman  who  has  the  floor,  I  desire  to  make  a  mo- 
tion. The  confusion  in  the  hall  is  due  to  the  fact  that  it  is  now  time  for 
lunch.  I  move  a  recess  until  3  o'clock  this  afternoon. 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  make  the  point 
of  order  that  the  gentleman  is  not  in  order.  He  has  not  the  floor. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  point  of  order  is  well  taken.  The 
gentleman  from  New  Jersey  will  proceed. 

MR.  RECORD,  of  New  Jersey. — It  is  claimed  by  the  other  side  that  it 
is  necessary,  in  order  to  have  an  orderly  method  of  procedure,  that  some 
body  of  men  on  the  outside,  like  the  National  Committee  in  this  Conven- 
tion, should  have  the  right  to  settle  preliminary  contests,  and  the  only 
point  that  was  made  in  the  Arizona  case  was  that  we  refused  to  submit 
our  case  to  the  State  Committee  and  allow  them  to  pass  upon  our  rights 
prior  to  our  entry  upon  the  Convention.  To  that  we  answered  that  it  has 
never  been  the  custom  of  the  people  of  the  State  of  Arizona  in  conven- 
tion to  submit  their  cases  to  the  State  Committee.  For  years  and  years 
such  a  proceeding  has  never  been  heard  of.  So  we  declined  to  present 
our  case  to  the  State  Committee. 

That  raises  the  identical  point  which  is  here  for  discussion  before  this 
body,  the  right  of  any  body  to  pass  upon  the  credentials  of  the  men  who 
are  selected  by  the  voters  to  constitute  the  Convention;  and  we  say  that 
if  once  that  principle  is  conceded,  we  have  'a  government  by  a  minority 


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and  not  a  government  by  a  majority.  If  the  National  Committee  can 
put  men  into  this  Convention,  if  that  Committee  can  put  in  here  a  con- 
trolling body  of  delegates (At  this  point  there  was  much  disorder 

in  the  hall.) 

MR.  RECORD,  of  New  Jersey. — Mr.  Chairman,  there  is  not  much  use 
of  my  going  ahead  unless  you  can  obtain  order. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  speaker  will  suspend  until  the 
people  who  are  moving  in  the  aisles,  both  on  the  floor  and  in  the  gal- 
leries, have  either  left  the  hall  or  taken  their  seats;  and  the  Sergeant-at- 
Arms  is  directed  to  see  that  that  is  done.  (Applause.) 

MR.  PHILLIP  J.  BARBER,  of  Pennsylvania. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  rise  to  a 
point  of  order. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  will  state  his  point  of 
order. 

MR.  BARBER,  of  Pennsylvania. — Gentlemen  are  now  trying  to  get  their 
cases  before  the  delegates,  and  the  delegates  who  ought  to  listen  to  the 
cases  have  left  the  hall.  We  ought  to  have  those  gentlemen  in  their  seats, 
so  they  can  decide  the  cases  by  the  evidence. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  is  not  stating  a  point 
of  order. 

MR.  RECORD,  of  New  Jersey. — I  was  making  the  point  that  if  we  once 
grant  the  power  to  any  Committee  to  seat  in  the  preliminary  organization 
of  a  Convention  a  sufficient  body  of  people,  in  case  of  a  close  contest,  to 
decide  the  result,  you  then  have  government  by  the  minority  and  not 
government  by  the  majority.  (Applause.) 

I  urge  the  further  argument  that  if  you  continue  that  process  to  its 
logical  conclusion,  this  certainly  results :  The  men  who  are  seated  in 
the  preliminary  organization  will  select  their  own  representatives  upon 
the  Committee  on  Credentials,  and  that  Committee  becomes  then  not  a 
judicial  and  impartial  body  to  hear  the  evidence,  but  it  becomes  essen- 
tially a  partial  and  packed  tribunal,  with  the  verdict  arranged  before  the 
evidence  is  presented ;  and  if  you  continue  that  process  logically,  then 
that  packed  and  partial  body  will  present  a  report  seating  themselves  and 
their  friends  as  permanent  members  of  the  Convention ;  and  when  that 
report  comes  before  the  Convention  for  final  action,  the  men  who  pass 
upon  it  will  be  the  men  whose  right  to  sit  in  the  Convention  is  itself  in 
dispute.  (Applause.) 

We  say  clearly  that  that  is  a  practical  illustration  of  the  principle 
that  a  man  shall  be  a  judge  in  his  own  case.  We  deny  that  principle, 
and  we  stand  here  to  appeal  to  your  sense  of  fairness  and  justice  in 
sustaining  us  upon  that  point.  We  present  here  to  you  the  proposition 
not  that  the  six,  as  the  only  delegates  whom  we  represent,  shall  sit  here, 
but  that  the  men  who  have  been  wrongfully  put  in  their  places  shall  not 


128  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 

sit  here  until  the  rest  of  us  have  had  a  chance  to  pass  upon  the  case. 
(Applause.) 

Now  I  have  not  the  voice  and  you  have  not  the  patience  for  me  to 
put  before  you  the  Indiana  case  as  I  had  intended,  but  the  remark  of  the 
distinguished  Senator  from  Indiana  (Mr.  Hemenway)  puts  into  my  mind 
just  this  suggestion  which  you  must  hear:  He  says  he  charged  before 
the  Committee  that  they  made  no  proof  as  to  the  men  who  were  alleged 
to  be  illegal  voters,  naming  them  by  their  names.  I  have  studied  the  In- 
diana cases;  I  have  read  the  affidavits  of  Baptist  ministers,  of  men  of 
the  highest  personal  and  business  standing,  of  the  editor  of  a  conspicu- 
ous Roman  Catholic  publication,  and  those  affidavits  show  that  in  the 
city  of  Indianapolis  Roosevelt  men  were  denied  any  watchers  at  the 
ballot  box;  that  droves  of  men  came  up  to  the  ballot  box  who  wer* 
unknown  to  all  the  people,  and  that  they  voted  without  reason  and  with- 
out being  entitled  to  do  so ;  and  one  of  these  men  makes  the  specific 
statement  that  having  his  suspicions  aroused  by  two  automobile  loa.ls  of 
voters  coming  up  to  the  polls  whom  he  knew  not  to  be  citizens  of  the 
ward,  he  jumped  into  another  automobile  and  followed  them  from  that 
ward,  and  saw  them  vote  in  three  other  wards,  and  then  he  saw  them 
come  back  and  vote  again  in  the  first  ward  where  his  suspicions  had  first 
been  aroused.  The  distinguished  Senator  from  Indiana  (Mr.  Hemenway) 
would  have  you  disregard  that  evidence,  because  the  clergyman  am1  the 
editor  of  the  Catholic  paper  neglected  the  precaution  of  getting  the 
names  and  addresses  of  the  repeaters.  (Laughter.) 

MR.  WILLIAM  E.  ENGLISH,  of  Indiana. — Was  not  the  verdict  of  the 
National  Committee  unanimous  upon  that  subject? 

MR.  RECORD,  of  New  Jersey. — It  is  upon  such  cases  as  that  that  the 
Indiana  case  rests.  In  the  Thirteenth  Indiana  district  we  had  a  clear 
majority  of  the  people 

MR.  HERBERT  PARSONS,  of  New  York. — Did  those  affidavits  give  the 
names  of  the  men  who  voted;  and  did  your  people  have  affidavits  of  the 
men  under  whose  names  these  alleged  fraudulent  votes  were  cast,  say- 
ing that  they  themselves  had  not  voted? 

MR.  RECORD,  of  New  Jersey. — Mr.  Parsons  of  New  York  asks  me  a 
question.  He  wants  to  know  whether  the  affidavits  showed  the  names  of 
the  people  under  whose  names  these  repeaters  voted.  I  answer  him  this, 
that  there  were  no  names  upon  which  to  vote  that  the  ballot  proposition 
was  a  simple  arrangement  whereby  the  box  was  put  in  a  back  room 
where  nobody  could  get  at  it,  where  watchers  were  refused  access,  where 
there  was  no  poll  book,  where  there  was  no  check  list,  where  there  was  no 
attempt  to  identify  each  voter  as  he  appeared  upon  the  scene,  and  one  of 
these  affidavits  specifically  states  that  after  the  man  who  made  the  affi- 
davit— a  most  reputable  man,  having  no  connection  with  politics — had 
been  refused  the  right  to  have  a  watcher,  and  after  he  and  his  friends 


HOX.    CHARLES  \V.    FAIRl'.AXKS,   of   Indiana, 
Chairman   of  the   Committee   on    Resolutions. 


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had  been  put  out  of  the  polling  place,  when  the  primary  was  over  he  had 
the  curiosity  to  climb  up  on  a  ladder  and  look  through  a  window  and  see 
the  officials  count  the  ballots  in  the  box,  and  to  his  intense  amazement 
these  men,  entirely  alone,  supposing  themselves  unseen,  proceeded  to  make 
up  their  returns  without  ever  opening  the  ballot  box  at  all.  (Applause.) 

MR.  CHARLES  W.  FAIRBANKS,  of  Indiana. — Will  the  gentleman  allow 
a  question? 

MR.  RECORD,  of  New  Jersey. — Just  let  me  finish — 

MR.  WILLIAM  E.  ENGLISH,  of  Indiana. — There  was  no  contest  at  all 
in  the  Indianapolis  district.  I  am  a  delegate  from  the  Indianapolis  dis- 
trict, and  there  is  not  a  contest  in  that  district ;  and  you  know  it. 

MR.  WILLIAM  H.  DYE,  of  Indiana. — They  voted  time  after  time. 

MR.  ENGLISH,  of  Indiana. — I  say  there  was  no  contest,  and  anybody 
who  says  there  is  in  the  Indianapolis  district  is  a  liar.  I  am  a  delegate 
from  the  Seventh  district. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Convention  will  not  proceed  until 
there  is  better  order.  The  Chair  will  announce  that  he  has  given  instruc- 
tions that  no  return  tickets  be  recognized  in  favor  of  those  who  leave  the 
hall.  Any  one  now  or  hereafter  leaving  the  hall  will  have  to  remain  out 
until  the  conclusion  of  this  session.  (Applause.)  It  will  be  understood, 
of  course,  that  this  does  not  apply  to  the  delegates.  Every  one  in  the 
galleries  will  understand  that  he  must  make  his  definite  election  whether 
or  not  he  will  remain  here  throughout  the  proceedings.  The  police  offi- 
cers are  directed  not  to  permit  any  one  to  return  to  the  galleries.  There 
will  be  a  pause  of  five  minutes  to  allow  every  one  who  desires  to  leave  the 
hall  to  do  so. 

After  the  expiration  of  five  minutes — 

MR.  RECORD,  of  New  Jersey. — Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  if  I 
may  have  your  attention  for  just  a  few  moments  I  will,  inside  of  four 
or  five  minutes,  conclude  the  statement  of  the  Indiana  cases,  and  my 
argument  upon  it.  I  wish  to  call  your  attention  to  two  more  points  in 
the  Indiana  cases,  one  in  the  Thirteenth  district  and  one  in  the  State  Con- 
vention, as  indicating  the  character  of  the  proceedings  which  led  up  to 
the  selection  of  those  delegates. 

In  the  Thirteenth  district,  when  the  Chairman  started  to  call  the 
roll  of  the  counties  for  nominations  of  members  to  constitute  the  Com- 
mittee on  Credentials,  this  astonishing  thing  happened :  When  he  came 
to  a  certain  county,  instead  of  allowing  the  undisputed  chairman  of  the 
delegation  from  that  county  to  stand  up  in  the  usual  orderly  way  and 
name  the  men  for  the  Credentials  Committee  selected  by  the  delegates 
from  that  county,  he  recognized  the  chairman  of  the  County  Committee 
who  was  not  a  delegate,  standing  in  another  portion  of  the  hall,  and 
allowed  him  to  name  the  committeemen  on  credentials ;  exactly  as  if, 
when  we  come  to  that  order  of  business  here  in  this  Convention  a  little 


130  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

later,  when  the  chairman  of  each  of  your  various  delegations  rises  and 
names  your  candidates  for  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  Senator  Flinn 
of  Pennsylvania  should  rise  and  name  the  Committeeman  on  Credentials 
from  Pennsylvania,  and  instead  of  recognizing  him  Chairman  Root  should 
turn  to  Senator  Penrose,  and  allow  Senator  Penrose  to  pick  out  the  man 
from  Pennsylvania  to  serve  on  the  Credentials  Committee. 

That  happened  in  the  Thirteenth  district,  and  when  that  thing  led  to 
protest  and  confusion,  the  Chairman  declared  their  delegates  elected,  and 
declared  the  Convention  adjourned,  and  our  people  stayed  there  and  fin- 
ished the  job;  and  I  have  in  my  pocket,  and  we  tender  to  the  National 
Commiteee  the  affidavits  of  a  clean  majority  of  the  delegates  who  were 
not  contested,  stating  that  they  stayed  there  and  elected  the  delegates  who 
were  thrown  out  by  the  National  Committee. 

Now  in  the  State  Convention,  when  they  had  seated  these  people  in 
this  way,  which  we  say  was  unfair,  the  chairman  of  the  State  Conven- 
tion recognized  one  of  their  men,  who  proceeded  to  nominate  the  dele- 
gates-at-large,  and  then  he  refused  to  allow  any  of  our  men  to  make  any 
counter  nominations  at  all,  and  put  the  motion  and  declared  it  carried  by 
a  viva  voce  vote,  and  adjourned  the  Convention.  The  next  day  the 
leading  Taft  paper  of  that  State  denounced  the  State  Convention  as  un- 
fair and  as  a  fraud  upon  the  voters. 

Now  in  conclusion,  my  fellow  delegates,  and  this  is  the  point  I  urge 
upon  you  in  all  fairness — I  admit  that  they  will  deny  these  things;  I 
admit  that  they  will  have  their  version  of  it :  All  I  say  is  that  these 
assertions  are  made  by  reputable  people,  backed  up  by  affidavits  of  hon- 
orable men,  and  they  make  at  least  a  prima  facie  case  which  is  entitled 
to  be  considered  upon  the  merits ;  but  I  press  home  the  argument  that 
when  a  man  is  charged  by  reputable  people  with  having  committed  a 
fraud  and  a  crime,  he  must  not  be  permitted  to  sit  in  judgment  upon 
that  charge.  (Applause.) 

I  say  we  have  come  to  a  crisis  in  the  history  of  this  grand  Repub- 
lican party.  We,  as  well  as  you,  want  to  stay  in  it.  We  do  not  want  to 
be  driven  out  of  it  either  by  force  or  by  conscience;  we  want  to  go  on 
in  the  party  and  help  to  make  its  career  in  the  future  as  great  as  it  has 
been  in  the  past;  but  if  we  by  the  action  of  this  Convention  deliberately 
endorse  the  contention  that  an  outside  body  can  pack  this  Convention 
and  then  carry  that  scheme  through  to  the  final  nomination  of  a  Presi- 
dent by  a  minority  vote,  then  we  say  that  the  conscience  of  the  American 
people  will  revolt  at  that  proceeding,  and  that  the  Republican  party  will 
be  injured  if  not  destroyed  in  the  eyes  of  the  people  of  this  country. 
But  if,  on  the  contrary,  we  turn  down  that  contention  and  say  that  those 
who  are  charged  with  wrong  shall  stand  aside  and  let  the  rest  of  us 
decide  the  case,  we  will  then  stand  for  the  principles  of  fair  play  upon 
which  this  party  was  founded,  and  we  will  go  forth  to  renewed  victory. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  131 

(Applause.)  Then  this  grand  Republican  party,  which,  as  Lincoln  said, 
was  dedicated  to  the  proposition  that  all  men  are  created  equal,  will  have 
a  new  birth  here  and  will  start  upon  a  new  career  of  honor  and  of  glory 
and  of  service — service  in  the  destruction  of  privilege,  service  in  the 
achievement  of  industrial  and  social  justice,  service  in  establishing  the 
principle  of  equality  of  opportunity.  (Applause.) 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Judge  Robert  E.  Morrison,  of  Arizona, 
will  speak  in  opposition  to  the  motion  of  Governor  Hadley. 

MR.  ROBERT  E.  MORRISON,  of  Arizona. — Mr.  Chairman  and  fellow  dele- 
gates :  You  have  heard  the  charge  thrown  at  Arizona  from  all  quarters, 
high  and  low,  that  the  delegates  in  this  Convention  are  here  because  of 
fraudulent  misconduct  in  Arizona.  I  direct  your  attention  to  the  fact 
that  the  gentleman  who  has  just  closed  his  remarks  for  the  other  Arizona 
delegation  never  during  all  his  statement  charged  either  thievery  or  mis- 
conduct on  the  part  of  the  people  of  Arizona  in  that  convention — not  one 
word.  (Applause.) 

Let  me  tell  you  a  few  facts.  I  have  only  a  minute  or  two.  According 
to  the  call,  which  was  recognized  by  all  Republicans,  for  the  assembling 
of  a  State  Convention  in  Arizona  at  the  proper  time  and  the  proper  place, 
the  State  Chairman  of  our  Republican  Committee  called  the  Convention 
to  order  at  Tucson,  and  directed  the  Secretary  of  the  State  Committee 
to  read  the  call,  which  was  accordingly  done.  Thereupon  the  Chairman, 
Mr.  J.  L.  Hubbell,  who  is  acknowledged  and  conceded  to  be  the  legal 
Chairman  of  the  State  Committee,  said  to  the  Convention :  "It  came  to 
my  knowledge  as  Chairman  of  the  State  Committee  that  numerous  con- 
tests had  been  initiated  in  various  counties  in  Arizona,  reducing  the  num- 
ber of  seats  that  would  be  uncontested  below  a  majority  of  the  legal 
membership  in  the  Convention ;  and  I  issued  a  notice,  calling  a  meeting 
of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  State  Committee ;  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee having  issued  the  call,  the  call  having  been  recognized ;  and  there- 
upon on  that  notice  I  called  the  members  of  the  Executive  Committee 
together  two  days  before  the  Convention  was  to  convene,  and  then  I  gave 
notice  to  all  contesting  delegations  to  present  their  credentials  to  the 
Executive  Committee,  and  informed  them  that  representatives  of  the  dele- 
gation would  be  heard  by  that  Executive  Committee.  That  committee 
met  on  the  first  of  June  in  Tucson,  according  to  the  notice.  The  notice 
further  stated  that  the  Committee  would  make  arrangements  for  the 
temporary  organization  of  the  Convention." 

When  that  committee  met  there  were  twelve  out  of  fifteen  members 
of  the  committee  present  either  in  person  or  by  proxy,  and  the  charge 
has  been  made  in  a  printed  pamphlet  which  was  circulated  here  to-day 
that  that  Executive  Committee  was  controlled  by  Federal  office  holders. 
I  deny  the  charge.  There  were  only  three  Federal  office  holders  out  of 
fifteen  men.  (Applause.)  When  we  had  sat  there  for  about  three  days. 


132  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE 

it  turned  out  that  there  was  only  one  contest  presented,  that  of  Cochise 
County,  and  they  presented  the  credentials  and  the  minutes  of  the 
committee  that  claimed  the  right  to  appoint  the  delegates  from  Cochise 
County  to  the  State  Convention.  No  others  were  sent  in  except  straight 
credentials  from  the  other  counties. 

Thereupon,  after  having  sat  for  nearly  three  days,  giving  everybody 
an  opportunity  to  come  in  and  to  be  heard,  and  everybody  knowing  that 
we  were  there  in  session,  we  then,  as  Mr.  Hubbell  told  the  Convention 
two  hours  before  the  Convention  met,  adopted  a  roll  and  placed  upon 
that  roll,  for  use  simply  on  temporary  organization,  the  names  of  the 
delegates  from  thirteen  of  the  counties,  whether  they  were  Taft  or  Roose- 
velt. In  Cochise  County  there  were  two  contesting  delegations  before  the . 
committee.  We  gave  each  delegate  half  a  seat,  leaving  the  question 
thereafter  to  be  determined  by  the  Committee  on  Credentials.  (Applause.) 

Thereupon  the  Chairman  of  the  State  Committee  read  that  roll.  Re- 
member, everybody  was  in  there  who  was  entitled  to  be  there.  Nobody 
questions  that  everybody  was  there  who  was  entitled  to  be  there.  The 
Taft  people  were  there,  the  Roosevelt  people  were  there,  and  no  com- 
plaint of  any  kind  was  made.  That  convention  was  absolutely  open  and 
above  board,  and  nobody  will  dare  to  question  it. 

After  having  read  that  roll,  the  Chairman  of  the  State  Committe* 
asked :  "Are  there  any  nominations  for  Temporary  Chairman  of  this 
Convention?"  Thereupon  Mr.  Reddick  was  nominated  from  the  floor; 
his  nomination  was  seconded;  and  then  a  gentleman  who  was  not  on 
the  temporary  roll  rose  and  said :  "Mr.  Chairman,  I  will  not  recognize 
that  temporary  roll."  There  was  no  motion  made;  no  parliamentary 
move  of  any  kind.  He  was  ruled  out  of  order  upon  the  point  being  made, 
and  thereupon  Mr.  Reddick  was  elected  the  Temporary  Chairman  of  that 
convention. 

Then  the  Roosevelt  people  in  the  convention  gathered  together  by 
prearrangement  on  the  right-hand  side  of  the  hall,  the  Temporary  Chair- 
man, Mr.  Reddick,  being  in  his  place  on  the  stage,  and  one  of  the 
Roosevelt  people  went  up  on  the  stage,  and  about  that  time  a  perfect 
bedlam  of  noise  and  voices  came  up  from  our  Roosevelt  friends.  (Laugh- 
ter.) For  fifteen  or  twenty  minutes  that  row  went  along,  and  I  tell  you 
that  during  that  time  you  could  not  hear  one  word  that  was  uttered  by 
the  Roosevelt  people. 

And  then  what  happened?  What  was  done  we  do  not  know;  you 
could  not  tell;  but  the  fact  is  that  at  the  end  of  less  than  twenty  minutes 
the  man  who  was  on  the  stage  jumped  down  into  the  arms  of  his  Roose- 
velt friends,  waving  and  cheering,  and  they  left  the  hall  and  did  not 
return.  There  is  the  record  of  Arizona.  (Applause.) 

MR.  GUY  A.  HAM,  of  Massachusetts. — They  bolted? 

MR.    MORRISON,   of   Arizona. — Yes;   they  bolted,   if   you  wish   so   to 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  133 

term  it.  We  went  ahead,  and  for  over  two  and  a  half  hours  we  sat  in 
that  convention,  and  we  passed  every  parliamentary  move  that  was  nec- 
essary. (Applause.)  We  had  fights,  but  in  a  parliamentary  way  we  went 
on  with  the  convention.  (There  were  cheers  and  hisses.)  Please,  gen- 
tlemen, refrain.  You  listened  to  Mr.  Record  without  any  interruption. 
Kindly  give  me  the  same  consideration.  That  is  all  I  ask. 

No  one  will  deny  successfully,  either  here  or  in  Arizona,  the  record 
as  I  have  stated  it.  It  is  upon  just  that  record,  with  that  kind  of  a  record, 
with  68  men  remaining  in  that  convention  out  of  96  that  our  opponents 
charge,  that  there  was  fraud  and  misrepresentation.  I  throw  it  into  their 
teeth,  and  I  declare  that  there  was  absolutely  nothing  but  parliamentary 
'tactics  (laughter),  that  nothing  happened  at  that  convention  that  the 
people  of  Arizona  may  be  ashamed  of. 

Let  me  suggest  in  conclusion  that  after  the  convention  had  concluded 
its  work  there  was  not  the  least  bit  of  ill-feeling  on  the  part  of  the 
Roosevelt  men;  because  in  the  afternoon  of  that  day  there  was  a  regular 
love-feast.  There  was  not  any  misunderstanding,  and  the  fact  of  the 
matter  is,  in  conclusion,  that  the  Republicans,  whether  they  were  Demo- 
crats—  (laughter) — I  use  the  term  advisedly  when  I  say  the  Republicans, 
whether  they  be  Democrats  or  not,  because  they  are  all  democrats  in 
Arizona  who  are  going  to  vote  the  Republican  ticket  this  fall,  and  so  aid 
us  in  putting  Arizona  in  the  Republican  column.  (Applause.) 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Mr.  Thomas  H.  Devine,  of  Colorado, 
will  speak  against  the  motion  of  Mr.  Hadley. 

MR.  THOMAS  H.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado. — Mr.  Chairman :  I  was  rather 
surprised  when  I  heard  Governor  Hadley's  statement  of  his  opinion  of 
the  39  men  who  constituted  the  majority  of  the  National  Committee, 
because  I  recall  very  vividly  when  the  Missouri  contest  was  up,  and 
just  before  the  vote  was  taken  I  left  the  room.  I  met  the  Governor  in 
the  outside  reception  room,  and  he  said  to  me :  "What  are  you  going 
to  do?"  and  I  said:  "So  far  as  I  am  concerned,  I  am  going  to  vote  to 
seat  your  delegation."  He  said :  "Good !  There  have  been  many  bad 
things  said  about  the  majority  of  this  committee  that  I  do  not  believe, 
and  I  am  going  to  say  something  nice."  (Applause.)  I  have  been  wait- 
ing for  something  to  be  said,  and  the  Governor  said  it  when  he  got  to 
the  platform ;  but  I  think  I  understand  the  Governor.  It  is  one  of  his 
usual  Missouri  gentleman's  agreements,  by  which  he  stands  only  when  it 
is  to  his  interest  to  do  so.  (Applause.) 

The  majority  of  this  committee  are  arraigned  by  14  members  of  the 
committee,  nine  of  whom,  as  you  have  already  been  told,  have  been  re- 
pudiated by  their  own  States  and  will  not  again  serve  on  that  committee. 
But  I  want  to  call  your  attention  to  something  else.  They  have  a  report 
here  in  regard  to  the  Seventh  district  of  Texas,  and  in  their  signed 


134  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

statement  they  give  four  names  as  delegates,  and  then  they  move  to  strike 
out  those  names  and  to  insert  two  other  names,  and  whose  names  are 
they  seeking  to  insert?  The  very  two  delegates  from  Texas  who  were 
seated  by  the  majority  vote  of  the  National  Committee.  (Applause.) 

One  of  two  things  is  absolutely  certain,  and  that  is  that  the  fourteen 
gentlemen  never  read  their  statement  before  they  signed  it,  but  listened 
simply  to  their  master's  voice  and  did  his  bidding.  (Applause.)  Or  else 
they  could  not  resist  the  temptation  of  voting  with  us  just  as  they  did 
on  the  National  Committee.  (Applause.) 

Now  let  us  take  up  this  meeting  of  the  National  Committee.  They 
have  told  you  many  things.  When  I  say  they  have  told  you,  I  mean 
the  minority  representatives  on  that  committee,  because  they  made  it  their 
business  after  every  roll  call,  after  every  vote,  to  leave  the  room  where 
we  were  seated,  and  to  seek  out  the  reporters  of  individual  papers  and 
give  them  their  version,  and  their  version  was  not  always  the  truth. 
(Applause.) 

What  did  the  evidence  before  that  committee  show?  I  am  going  to 
refer  briefly  to  the  contest  on  the  Southern  delegates,  and  I  want  to  say 
to  you  that  the  action  of  the  Roosevelt  forces  in  stirring  up  contests  in 
the  South  was  a  most  damnable  thing.  (Applause.) 

The  evidence  taken  before  that  committee  showed  that  an  emissary 
from  the  North,  either  loaded  or  unloaded,  I  do  not  know  which,  but 
with  sufficient  influence  to  stir  up  trouble,  went  down  among  the  Southern 
States,  from  thirty  to  ninety  days  after  the  Republican  Conventions  had 
been  held  and  the  delegates  honestly  elected  and  stirred  up  certain  mem- 
bers—  (cries  of  "Oh,  Oh!") — I  say  honestly  elected,  and  I  repeat  it.  I 
believe  so.  He  went  down  into  that  State,  and  after  thirty  to  ninety 
days  after  those  conventions  had  been  held  stirred  up  certain  men  who 
attended  those  conventions  and  who  were  a  part  of  those  conventions, 
and  induced  them  to  get  up  rump  conventions.  For  what  purpose?  To 
file  contests  against  the  Southern  delegates,  in  order  that  they,  by  suck 
dishonest  methods,  might  prevent  the  contested  delegates  from  having 
votes  in  this  Convention.  (Applause.) 

MR.  W.  H.  FEATHERSTONE,  of  Texas. — There  is  not  a  word  of  truth 
in  it! 

MR.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado. — Now  I  hear  some  gentleman  say  it  is  not 
true.  It  is  true.  Let  me  tell  you.  Out  of  the  107  delegates  in  the  Sou*h 
who  were  thus  contested,  101  of  them  were  seated  by  the  unanimous  vote 
of  the  National  Committee.  (Applause.)  If  they  were  not  honestly 
elected,  why  in  the  world  did  these  simon  pure  angels  who  represented 
the  Roosevelt  forces  on  that  committee  vote  to  seat  them?  (Applause.) 

Let  me  tell  you  another  thing.  The  pyrotechnics  had  been  prepared 
before  this  committee  met.  We  were  assaulted  and  assailed  on  every 
hand.  The  statements  had  already  been  prepared,  except  perhaps  as  to 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  135 

filling  in  the  names  to  suit  the  occasion,  our  friend  who  is  now  seeking 
a  third  term  was  so  impatient  to  get  off  his  skyrocket  that  when  the 
Ninth  Alabama  district  came  in,  and  that  contest  was  settled,  he  charged 
every  man  voting  for  the  seating  of  those  delegates  as  a  fit  subject  for 
the  penitentiary.  (Applause.)  But  he  was  a  little  premature,  for  when 
he  issued  that  edict  he  included  two  of  his  own  men  who  voted  with  us. 
(Applause.)  In  this  instance  the  Colonel  departed  from  his  rule  of 
sending  them  to  the  Ananias  Club,  and  he  sent  them  to  the  other  place, 
and  included  in  the  list  of  convicts  Colonel  Cecil  Lyon  of  Texas.  (Ap- 
plause.) 

Now  I  want  briefly  to  call  your  attention  to  the  situation  in  Texas. 
Cecil  Lyon,  Colonel  Lyon,  the  ardent  Roosevelt  supporter,  is  the  whole 
Republican  party  of  Texas,  as  he  now  has  that  party  constituted.  He  is 
Chairman  of  the  State  Central  Committee,  he  is  a  member  of  the  Na- 
tional Committee,  or  he  was;  he  is  not  now.  He  talks  about  a  steam 
roller.  There  is  not  one  of  them  extant  that  begins  to  compare  with  the 
roller  Cecil  Lyon  runs  in  Texas.  (Applause.)  The  State  Central  Com- 
mittee of  Texas  makes  the  apportionment  of  delegates  from  each  county 
to  attend  the  State  Convention.  They  hare  something  like  20,000  Re- 
publican votes  in  Texas.  They  had  167,000  when  Mr.  McKinley  ran. 
(At  this  point  there  was  much  disorder  in  the  hall.) 

MR.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado. — I  should  like  to  have  some  order. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — We  will  wait  until  order  is  restored,  if 
we  wait  all  night.  (Applause.) 

MR.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado. — There  are  two  Congressional  districts  in 
the  western  part  of  Texas,  made  up  of  107  counties,  which  at  the  last 
general  election  cast  2,000  Republican  votes.  Just  think  of  it !  Two  or 
three  counties  in  the  populous  part  of  the  State  had  cast  8,000  votes  for 
the  Republican  party,  and  Dallas  alone  cast  over  2,000  votes.  Those  107 
counties  are  made  up  of  prairie  dogs.  They  have  no  Republican  organi- 
zation. They  have  never  had  a  Republican  organization.  They  do  not 
hold  a  primary  election  or  a  primary  convention ;  but  what  they  do  down 
there  is  that  Cecil  Lyon  sends  out  some  of  his  person  friends  and  gets 
them  to  get  up  a  delegation,  and  each  county  has  one  vote  in  the  con- 
vention. By  the  control  of  90  counties  he  stifles  tke  will  and  the  vote  of 
something  like  50,000,  and  2,000  men  send  to  this  Convention  your  40 
delegates.  (Applause.)  (At  this  point  there  was  much  disorder  in  the 
hall.) 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  Colorado  will  sus- 
pend for  a  moment.  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  I  do  not  know  whether 
you  want  to  hear  what  is  being  said  upon  this  serious  and  important  sub- 
ject, but  I  know  this,  that  if  the  gentleman  sitting  upon  the  other  side  of 
that  aisle  (indicating)  does  not  cease  his  disorderly  conduct,  delegate 
or  no  delegate,  the  Sergeant-at-Arms  will  have  him  removed  from  the 


136  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

hall.     (Applause.) 

MR.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado. — Gentlemen,  as  evidence  of  this  high-hand- 
ed proceeding  on  the  part  of  Colonel  Lyon,  I  want  to  read  you  a  copy  of 
an  affidavit  I  took  from  the  record  this  morning,  or  got  the  stenographer 
to  do  so,  which  will  show  you  exactly  what  the  situation  is. 

"I,  J.  E.  Lutz,  on  oath,  state  that  I  am  a  resident  and  citizen  of 
the  city  of  Vernon,  County  of  Wilbarger,  State  of  Texas,  and  have 
been  for  about  27  years. 

"I  was  a  member  of  the  State  Executive  Committee  of  the  Re- 
publican party  under  the  leadership  of  Cecil  A.  Lyon  for  about  ten 
years.  I  state  that  it  has  been  the  custom  for  years  to  prepare  cre- 
dentials from  the  majority  of  the  counties  of  the  Thirteenth  and 
Sixteenth  Congressional  Districts  of  Texas,  which  were  originally  in 
the  Thirteenth  District  and  include  about  ninety  counties.  In  most  of 
these  counties  there  is  not  nor  ever  has  been  regular  Republican 
organizations,  but  from  year  to  year  credentials  have  been  manufac- 
tured by  the  friends  of  Mr.  Lyon  and  voted  by  some  of  his  followers 
and  used  to  enable  the  said  Mr.  Lyon  to  keep  himself  in  control  of 
the  State  organization. 

"In  the  primary  conventions  just  held  to  send  delegates  to  the 
State  Conventions,  who  in  turn  send  delegates  to  the  National  Con- 
vention, Colonel  Lyon  had  blank  proxies  printed  and  mailed  in  to  his 
friends    and    postmasters    throughout    the    Thirteenth    Congressional 
District,  requesting  them  that  in  the  event  that  nobody  would  attend 
the  State  Convention  from  their  county,  to  name  either  Louis  John- 
son or  Joe  Williams    (both  members   of  his  State  Executive  Com- 
mittee) to  cast  the  vote  of  that  county  in  the  State  Convention." 
That  is  the  way  that  Cecil  Lyon,  by  the  use  of  proxies,  obtained  from 
personal  friends,  not  from  any  organization,  in  ninety  counties  of  Texas, 
has  been  enabled  to  control  the  policies  of  the  Republican  party  of  Texas, 
and  to  send  to  the  National  Convention  delegates  of  his  own  choosing, 
and  to  make  himself  the  national  committeeman  from  that  State.     (Ap- 
plause.) 

MR.  H.  M.  MOORE,  of  Texas. — Here  is  a  letter  from  Cecil  Lyon. 
MR.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado. — I  am  making  this  speech,  and  when  I  get 
through  you  can  have  the  floor,  if  you  get  a  chance. 

MR.  MOORE,  of  Texas. — This  is  a  letter  from  Cecil  Lyon.  Read  it 
This  is  a  Taft  man's  letter. 

MR.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado. — Gentlemen,  I  want  to  call  your  attention 
for  a  moment  to  the  condition  down  there.  McKinley,  in  1896,  got  167,000 
votes  in  Texas.  Roosevelt,  when  he  ran,  got  51,000,  a  loss  of  over  100,000, 
not  the  fault  of  Roosevelt.  Taft  four  years  ago  secured  in  Texas  a  vote 
amounting  to  64,000,  while  two  years  ago  the  Republican  candidate  for 
Governor  of  that  State  got  only  26,000  votes.  Why?  Because  the  Re- 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  137 

publicans  of  Texas  are  up  in  rebellion  against  the  methods  employed  by 
Cecil  Lyon.  (Applause.) 

It  was  such  conditions  as  those  that  confronted  the  National  Com- 
mittee. They  were  not  deciding  this  question  in  favor  of  any  particular 
candidate,  but  they  were  deciding  what  they  thought  was  for  the  best 
interests  of  the  Republican  party. 

Now  I  do  not  care  to  take  up  much  more  of  your  time.  You  have 
been  very  patient  with  me,  and  very  kind,  and  I  desire  to  say  in  conclu- 
sion that  never  until  I  reached  Chicago  did  I  dream  or  hear  that  the  39 
men  who  composed  the  majority  of  that  Committee  were  as  low  and 
contemptible,  as  vile  and  as  wrong  on  everything,  as  the  Roosevelt  fel- 
lows have  charged  them  with  being.  I  had  always  understood  they  were 
honorable  gentlemen,  and  I  say  to  you  that  every  one  of  them  exercised 
the  greatest  care,  took  the  greatest  pains,  and  when  he  gave  his  vote,  he 
did  what  his  conscience  told  him  to  do. 

MR.  HERBERT  S.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — Mr.  Chairman,  how  much 
time  remains  to  our  side? 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Fifteen  minutes. 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — There  must  be  more  than  that.  Mr. 
Chairman,  I  wish  to  have  Mr.  C.  C.  Littleton,  a  Taft-instructed  delegate 
from  Texas,  make  a  brief  statement  as  to  the  regularity  of  the  Conven- 
tion which  sent  the  Roosevelt  delegates-at-large  to  this  Convention. 

MR.  C.  C.  LITTLETON,  of  Texas. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the 
Convention :  I  am  a  delegate  from  the  State  of  Texas,  and  I  expect  to 
cast  my  vote  on  every  occasion  that  may  arise  where  it  will  be  for  the 
interest  of  President  Taft.  (Applause.)  But  I  want  to  state  further  that 
I  desire  to  deny  the  charges  that  have  been  made  by  the  gentleman  who 
has  just  preceded  me  (applause),  in  his  damnable  assault  upon  the  char- 
acter and  the  reputation  of  the  Republican  party  of  Texas  and  of  Cecil 
Lyon.  (Applause.) 

I  have  been  with  Lyon  for  fourteen  years  in  the  Republican  party  in 
Texas.  I  have  fought  with  him  and  I  have  fought  against  him,  and  he 
knows  that  I  am  as  strong  for  Mr.  Taft  as  he  is  for  Mr.  Roosevelt. 
(Applause.)  He  tried  to  get  my  district  to  instruct  for  Mr.  Roosevelt, 
and  he  could  not  get  it. 

Now  in  reference  to  the  Texas  State  Convention,  to  which  the  gen- 
tleman has  referred  as  being  irregular,  I  wish  to  say  that  I  was  a  Taft 
delegate  to  that  convention;  I  attended  that  convention,  and  it  was  in 
every  way  regular.  (Applause.) 

I  wish  to  say  further,  gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  that  remarks 
have  been  made  before  in  this  Convention  to-day  that  under  the  admin- 
istration of  Cecil  Lyon,  as  Chairman  of  the  Republican  party  of  Texas, 
the  Republican  vote  has  been  cut  from  160,000  down  to  25,000.  There  is  a 
reason  for  that,  and  I  want  to  tell  you  what  it  is.  It  is  because  of  the 


138  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

Terry  election  law,  which  requires  the  negroes  in  that  State  to  pay  a  poll- 
tax.  (Applause.)  In  addition,  it  is  because  the  Republicans  of  that 
State  who  want  to  dominate  that  party  have  bolted  and  gone  to  the 
Democrats.  That  is  what  you  have  here  to-day. 

Gentlemen.  I  want  to  be  understood  about  this.  I  am  not  fighting 
anybody's  battle.  I  am  not  trying  to  make  one  vote  one  way  or  the 
other.  If  I  could  make  it  for  Mr.  Taft,  I  am  going  to  vote  for  him 
every  chance  I  get.  but  I  say  that  this  thing  of  cussing  out  Lyon  is 
perfectly  ridiculous.  I  say  he  has  built  up  an  organization  in  Texas 
against  which  the  gates  of  hell  shall  not  prevail.  (Applause.) 

MR.  JOHN  D.  MACKAY,  of  Michigan. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen: 
I  had  hoped  that  the  gentlemen  appearing  here  for  Mr.  Roosevelt  would 
give  me  something  on  which  to  stake  a  hope  or  belief  that  they  were  and 
wanted  to  be  fair-minded.  I  hoped,  in  view  of  the  records  which  they 
had  read,  and  which  were  presented  to  the  National  Committee,  that  they 
would  finally  decide  to  leave  out  the  contests  on  Michigan's  six  delegates- 
at-large. 

Now  briefly,  because  you  are  tired  and  my  knees  are  shaking,  I  am 
simply  going  to  give  you  the  facts  with  respect  to  the  Michigan  matter. 
I  want  to  say  to  you  that  any  man  who  comes  into  the  State  of  Michi- 
gan and  disputes  the  facts,  or  who  goes  on  the  stand  and  swears  oppo- 
site to  what  is  in  this  record,  can  be  convicted  of  perjury. 

Now,  gentlemen,  I  am  one  of  the  six  delegates-at-large  whose  seats 
are  here  contested.  I  am  one  of  the  men — perhaps  the  man  who  is  sup- 
posed to  have  ridden  rough-shod  over  the  plain  people  of  Wayne  County. 
I  believe  in  listening  to  every  man,  and  I  believe  that  you,  as  fair-minded 
jurors,  will  listen  to  me.  Wayne  County  sends  192  delegates  to  the 
Michigan  State  Convention.  In  Wayne  County  the  caucuses  were  regu- 
larly called.  The  polls  were  open  from  four  to  eight  in  the  afternoon, 
and  253  delegates  were  selected  to  sit  in  the  Wayne  County  Convention. 
I  have  on  the  platform  here  the  original  credentials  of  193  out  of  that 
number. 

You  will  be  told,  gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  that  from  the  county 
outside  of  Detroit,  which  is  entitled  to  76  delegates,  they  had  44;  but, 
gentlemen,  I  have  the  credentials  of  63,  and  those  men  outside  of  Detroit 
are  made  up  of  our  most  prominent  farmers,  and  if  necessary  affidavits 
will  be  furnished  from  every  one  of  them. 

That  county  convention  was  called  to  order  by  the  county  chairman. 
He  introduced  Mr.  John  S.  Haggerty,  who  sits  here  as  a  district  dele- 
gate from  the  First  Congressional  district,  to  be  the  temporary  chairman 
of  the  convention.  As  soon  as  that  was  done,  Mr.  Charles  A.  Nichols, 
who  bears  the  title  of  chairman  of  the  Michigan  Roosevelt  Committee, 
gathered  not  to  exceed  40  of  these  delegates  into  a  corner  of  the  hall, 
mounted  a  chair,  and  for  not  to  exceed  three  minutes  these  men  waved 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  139 

their  arms  and  yelled,  and  then  filed  out;  and,  gentlemen,  I  have  here  a 
certified  transcript  of  the  Wayne  County  Convention,  which  shows  a  roll 
call  of  193  uncontested  delegates,  the  proceedings  having  been  properly 
taken  and  certified  by  a  court  stenographer  of  Wayne  County. 

These  other  men  appointed  no  committees ;  they  held  no  convention ; 
but,  acting  under  instructions  from  a  man  who  was,  but  is  no  longer, 
chairman  of  the  State  Central  Committee,  one  Frank  Knox,  known  in 
Michigan  as  Warwick,  sent  a  contesting  delegation  to  the  State  Con- 
vention at  Bay  City,  and  then  he  and  the  Governor  of  the  State  at  Bay 
City,  in  order  to  prevent  the  regular  delegates  from  getting  into  that  hall, 
put  the  militia  in  charge.  But  fortunately  we  had  a  State  Central  Com- 
mittee made  up  of  high-class  men  who  knew  their  duty,  and  those  men 
took  possession  of  that  hall,  and  the  delegates  were  admitted. 

I  have  here  the  record  of  the  State  Convention  at  Bay  City.  It  showi 
the  roll  calls,  it  shows  the  reports  of  the  committees,  and  it  shows  that 
nine  Congressional  districts  out  of  the  twelve  in  Michigan  were  repre- 
sented on  everything.  Further  than  that,  it  shows  that  from  Kent  County, 
which  was  supposed  to  be  for  Mr.  Roosevelt,  and  is  entitled  to  65  dele- 
gates in  the  State  Convention,  35  of  the  65  members  of  that  delegation 
remained  in  the  convention  and  voted.  It  shows  further  that  Claude  T. 
Hamilton,  who  is  here  as  a  Roosevelt  member  of  our  State  delegation 
from  the  Fifth  Congressional  district,  sat  there  and  voted  for  the  six 
delegates-at-large  from  the  State  of  Michigan  whose  names  appear  here 
on  the  temporary  roll.  If  you  can  find  any  judge  or  jury,  if  you  can  find 
any  man  in  the  State  of  Michigan,  who  will  say  that  the  Michigan  six 
delegates-at-large  are  not  entitled  to  their  seats,  then,  gentlemen,  God 
help  the  Republican  party  if  it  believes  in  a  square  deal.  (Applause.) 

If  the  purpose  of  Governor  Hadley  prevails  here,  it  is  an  easy  matter 
for  you  or  me  to  defeat  any  proposition  in  any  convention,  and  that,  gen- 
tlemen, is  just  what  was  attempted  in  the  State  of  Michigan. 

I  want  to  say  to  you  that  William  H.  Taft  carried  the  County  of 
Wayne  5  to  1.  (Applause.)  He  carried  the  State  of  Michigan  by  the 
same  vote,  and  he  will  do  it  again.  I  want  to  say  just  one  other  word, 
gentlemen.  The  attacks  that  have  been  made  on  our  national  committee- 
man,  John  Wr.  Blodgett,  are  unworthy  of  your  serious  consideration. 
John  W.  Blodgett  needs  no  defense  in  Michigan,  or  anywhere  where  he 
is  known.  (Applause.)  He  is  and  always  has  been  the  soul  of  honor, 
and  I  would  take  John  W.  Blodgett's  word  before  that  of  any  man  who 
signed  this  so-called  minority  report,  and  so  will  the  State  of  Michigan. 
(Applause.) 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Mr.  Maurice  L.  Galvin,  of  Kentucky, 
will  speak  in  opposition  to  the  motion  of  Governor  Hadley. 

MR.  MAURICE  L.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen 
of  the  Convention :  Charges  have  been  made  against  the  conduct  of  the 


140  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

Republicans  of  the  State  of  Kentucky.  I  want  to  say  to  you  at  the  out- 
set that  we  men  from  Kentucky  love  Kentucky  and  hate  those  people 
who  cast  reflections  upon  her.  (Applause.)  I  think  I  can  show  you  be- 
fore I  conclude  that  the  contests  from  Kentucky  are  without  merit  and 
were  trumped  up  for  a  purpose,  no  one  knows  what,  but  for  some  ulte- 
rior purpose  and  for  no  honest  purpose. 

When  the  State  Convention  adjourned  in  Kentucky  there  was  no 
contest  filed,  and  no  attempt  to  contest  the  delegates  from  the  State  at 
large,  but  on  the  last  day  on  which  a  contest  could  be  filed  under  the 
call  of  the  National  Committee  a  contest  was  filed  against  the  delegates 
from  the  State  at  large,  and  what  I  believe  to  be  the  strangest  thing  in 
this  whole  line  of  contests  was  set  out  in  that  statement.  The  gentlemen 
who  made  the  contest  said:  "We  were  not  elected  delegates,  but  yet  we 
are  here  contesting."  There  were  four  delegates-at-large  elected  from  the 
State  of  Kentucky.  The  charge  has  been  made  that  they  were  fraudu- 
lently elected.  The  facts  are  briefly  these :  In  that  State  Convention 
there  were  about  2,300  delegates.  Out  of  the  whole  2,300  there  were  in 
contest  only  449  delegates,  and  the  Committee  on  Credentials  gave  to  the 
Roosevelt  side  of  that  controversy  112^  votes,  and  to  the  Taft  side 
336^  votes,  so  that  the  combined  total  and  all  the  strength  of  the  Roose- 
velt forces  in  the  State  Convention  of  Kentucky  amounted  to  883  votes,  or 
297  votes  less  than  a  majority  in  that  convention.  Yet  they  are  here 
contesting  the  right  of  the  people  selected  by  the  majority  of  the  Repub- 
licans in  Kentucky  to  sit  here  in  this  Convention.  And,  gentlemen,  thtf 
people  of  Kentucky  were  for  President  Taft,  as  evidenced  by  the  dec- 
laration in  their  platform  promulgated  and  adopted  by  the  State  Con- 
vention of  a  year  ago.  That  plank  in  that  platform  read  as  follows : 

"We   recognize   the   high   character   and    ability   and   the   distin- 
guished public  service  of  President  Taft,  and  cordially  endorse  his 

administration,   and  unreservedly   endorse   him   for   renomination   in 

1912."     (Applause.) 

And  I  say  to  you  that  the  sentiment  in  Kentucky  from  1911  to  1912 
has  not  changed  in  that  particular. 

Now,  gentlemen,  that  contest  on  the  delegates  from  the  State  at  large 
rs  like  all  the  other  contests  from  the  State  of  Kentucky,  and  the  men 
who  made  that  contest 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — Will  the  gentleman  yield  for  a  moment? 

MR.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — Yes. 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — The  delegates-at-large  are  not  involved. 

MR.  GALVTN,  of  Kentucky. — They  are  not  involved,  because  you  did 
not  have  the  temerity  to  present  their  case  to  this  Convention,  and  I  am 
presenting  it  for  the  purpose  of  showing  to  the  delegates  of  this  Con- 
vention that  all  the  other  contests  from  Kentucky  are  on  the  same  plane 
as  the  contest  on  the  delegates  from  the  State  at  large.  (Applause.) 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  141 

It  is  true,  too,  Governor  Hadley,  that  one  of  the  delegates  from  the 
Eleventh  district  in  Kentucky,  Mr.  Asher,  is  not  holding  a  seat  in  this 
Convention,  and  yet  you  are  asking  to  have  him  unseated  when  he  has 
never  yet  been  seated.  There  was  a  contest  from  the  Eleventh  district 
of  Kentucky,  and  the  National  Committee,  we  think  wrongfully,  split 
the  Eleventh  district  delegation  and  gave  one  delegate  to  the  Taft  side 
and  one  delegate  to  the  Roosevelt  side;  but  you  are  now  asking  that  Mr. 
Asher,  who  was  not  seated,  be  unseated. 

Briefly  stated,  the  facts  in  the  Eleventh  district  of  Kentucky  are 
these:  The  machinery  of  the  Republican  party  of  the  Eleventh  district 
was  in  the  control  of  the  Roosevelt  forces,  and  I  say  to  you  that  they 
used  the  control  that  they  had  to  violate  in  the  district  convention  every 
known  rule  of  the  Republican  party  in  that  State. 

In  the  Eighth  district  of  Kentucky  they  are  asking  you  to  unseat 
the  two  delegates  who  were  seated  by  the  National  Committee.  The 
district  convention  of  the  Eighth  district  of  Kentucky  showed  that  the 
total  vote  there  was  163  votes.  There  were  in  that  convention  uncon- 
tested,  there  by  right  and  without  any  question  of  their  right  to  sit,  95 
delegates  who  constituted  a  majority  of  that  convention.  Yet  they  say  to 
you  that  they  ought  to  be  unseated. 

Now  I  believe  we  all  think  that  the  majority  rule  should  prevail,  and 
if  it  should  prevail  here  it  should  prevail  in  the  Eighth  district  of  Ken- 
tucky. In  the  Seventh  district  of  Kentucky  the  Taft  forces  controlled 
the  district  convention.  There  were  146  delegates  entitled  to  sit  in  that 
convention.  Fifty-one  of  them  were  there  without  contest,  and  ninety-five 
in  contest.  The  contests  were  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Credentials, 
no  county  under  the  rules  of  the  party  being  entitled  to  vote  upon  its  own 
contest.  The  county  in  contest  did  not  vote,  and  the  delegates  were 
seated.  The  complaint  is  made  that  in  some  of  the  counties  of  the  Sev- 
enth district  Democrats  participated  in  the  mass  convention.  And  yet 
one  of  the  Roosevelt  contested  delegates  whom  they  are  asking  to  have 
seated  here,  Mr.  Saul,  is  registered  in  his  home  town  as  a  Democrat. 
Still  they  want  him  to  come  in  here  and  take  the  seat  of  the  regularly 
elected  Republican,  and  they  ask  you  to  unseat  a  Republican  and  to  place 
here  wrongfully  and  improperly  and  dishonestly  a  Democrat. 

MR,  D.  E.  MORRISON,  of  Mississippi. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  am  a  lawfully 
elected  delegate  from  Mississippi,  and  I  contend  that  my  seat  has  been 
stolen,  and  that  I  was  rightfully  elected  over  the  man  who  has  my  seat. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  is  not  in  order.  Mr. 
Watson,  of  Indiana,  will  speak  in  opposition  to  the  motion  of  Governor 
Hadley. 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of 
the  Convention:  It  is  not  my  intention  to  trespass  upon  your  patience  at 
any  great  length.  This  question  has  been  thoroughly  debated  in  your 


142  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

presence.  The  only  point  I  desire  to  make  to  the  Convention  at  this 
time  is  that  we  have  neither  the  information  nor  the  knowledge  to  de- 
termine judicially  the  merits  of  any  single  contest  mentioned  in  the  mo- 
tion of  my  friend  from  Missouri  (Mr.  Hadley). 

MR.  H.  H.  GILKYSON,  of  Pennsylvania.— How  did  the  National  Com- 
mittee do  it? 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  will  answer  the  question  which  my  friend 
asks.  The  National  Committee  met  on  the  6th  day  of  this  month,  and  I 
am  informed  that  they  had  their  hearings  every  day  from  9  o'clock  in  the 
morning  until  6  in  the  evening,  and  during  all  of  that  time  they  heard 
testimony,  they  heard  evidence,  they  had  affidavits,  they  had  witnesses 
upon  every  one  of  these  contests,  and  only  after  as  full  a  hearing  as  was 
possible  under  the  conditions  did  they  reach  any  conclusion  and  take 
any  vote. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  Governor  Hadley's  motion  involves 
two  delegates  from  Arkansas.  Tell  me,  are  you  in  a  condition  to  judge 
upon  the  merits  of  that  contest?  Not  one  word  has  been  uttered  about 
it  or  with  respect  to  it  by  any  man  who  has  occupied  this  platform.  Be 
honest  with  me,  gentlemen !  Are  you  in  a  condition  to  vote  intelligently 
on  that  contest? 

SEVERAL  DELEGATES. — No. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — This  motion  of  my  friend,  Governor  Had- 
ley, involves  two  delegates  from  Arkansas.  What  do  you  know  about 
the  two  delegates  from  Arkansas,  from  anything  you  have  heard  from 
this  platform?  Has  anybody  charged  that  there  was  irregularity?  Has 
any  fraud  been  charged?  Is  their  election  in  any  way  tainted?  Who 
knows  about  the  conditions  of  that  election  or  any  of  the  circumstances 
that  surrounded  it?  Honor  bright,  gentlemen  of  this  Convention,  are  we 
in  a  position  to  judge  upon  the  merits  of  the  controversy,  having  refer- 
ence to  the  delegates  from  Arkansas? 

This  motion  of  my  friend  further  involves  the  delegates  from  the 
State  of  Michigan.  We  have  had  a  speech  made  upon  our  side  with 
regard  to  the  merits  of  that  controversy.  Who  charges  any  fraud  upon 
that?  What  evidence  have  you?  What  testimony  has  been  given?  Are 
we  in  a  position  now  to  judge  upon  the  merits  of  that  controversy?  In 
other  words,  the  point  I  want  to  make  is  this,  gentlemen,  that  the  Con- 
vention is  not  in  a  fit  condition,  neither  is  it  in  a  fit  temper,  if  you  will 
excuse  me  for  saying  it,  nor  in  possession  of  sufficient  knowledge  to  judge 
intelligently  upon  any  one  of  these  contests.  Is  not  that  so?  (Applause.) 

We  know  that  there  have  been  charges  and  counter-charges,  crim- 
ination and  recrimination.  We  know  that  it  has  been  indulged  in  too 
freely,  not  only  from  this  platform  but  in  the  public  press  and  throughout 
the  Republic,  from  the  inception  of  this  contest  down  to  the  present  hour. 
I  shall  abuse  no  man ;  I  do  not  believe  in  the  argument  of  slander  or  in 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  143 

the  logic  of  villification  (applause)  ;  but,  appealing  to  your  honest  judg- 
ment, appealing  to  your  sense  of  fairness,  appealing  to  that  patriotism 
which  must  touch  and  thrill  every  Republican  heart,  answer  me :  Are 
you  in  a  position  to  judge  intelligently  upon  these  propositions  involved 
in  this  motion  to-day?  I  am  not  in  a  position  to  judge  upon  them.  I  do 
not  know.  Now,  if  that  be  true,  what  is  the  sensible  thing  to  do? 

Gentlemen,  it  is  a  very  easy  matter  to  talk  about  mob  law,  it  is  a 
very  easy  matter  to  say,  "Throw  these  men  out  of  the  Convention,"  but, 
gentlemen,  that  is  not  right,  that  is  not  fair,  that  is  not  Republican,  that 
is  not  American.  (Applause.) 

MR.  GILKYSON,  of  Pennsylvania. — Do  not  let  them  vote  on  their  own 
cases. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — My  proposition  is  to  send  this  whole  ques- 
tion to  a  Committee  of  Credentials  appointed  by  the  Convention,  and  I 
am  authorized  to  say  that  so  profoundly  impressed  is  my  friend,  Gov- 
ernor Hadley,  with  the  proposition  that  this  Convention  is  not  in  a  condi- 
tion to  determine  the  merits  of  this  controversy  and  all  of  these  contro- 
versies that  he  himself,  with  certain  modifications,  will  favor  sending  them 
all  to  the  Committee  on  Credentials.  (There  were  cries  of  "Hadley! 
Hadley!")  I  yield  to  Governor  Hadley. 

MR.  HERBERT  S.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri,  ascended  to  the  platform. 

MR.  WILLIAM  H.  COLEMAN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Three  cheers  for  Gov- 
ernor Hadley,  the  next  President. 

(At  this  point  there  was  a  demonstration.) 

MR.  HERBERT  S.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — The  gentleman  from  Indiana 
(Mr.  Watson)  has  kindly  yielded  to  me  for  a  moment  to  make  a  state- 
ment. When  he  stated  that  he  would  move  to  refer  this  entire  matter 
to  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  and  that  he  understood  I  was  in  favor 
of  that,  with  certain  qualifications,  I  thought  the  generality  of  the  state- 
ment might  create  a  misunderstanding.  But  there  is  no  misunderstand- 
ing between  Mr.  Watson,  of  Indiana,  and  myself,  or  any  other  honorable 
man.  (Applause.) 

The  facts  are  that  he  advised  me  that  at  the  conclusion  of  the  debate 
it  was  his  intention  to  move  to  refer  my  motion  to  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  and  I  advised  him  that  I  had  been  informed  by  Governor 
Deneen,  of  Illinois,  that  it  was  his  intention  to  offer  an  amendment  to 
that  motion,  that  the  controversy  over  the  seventy-odd  delegates  be  re- 
ferred to  the  Committee  on  Credentials  with  no  contested  delegate  having 
a  right  to  vote  on  the  selection  of  a  member  of  the  Credentials  Com- 
mittee or  upon  the  report  of  that  Committee.  (Applause.) 

I  advised  Mr.  Watson  that  I  would  favor  Governor  Deneen's  amend- 
ment as  against  his  motion,  in  order  that  this  Convention,  if  it  did  not 
feel  that  it  had  the  information  necessary  to  vote  upon  my  motion,  could 
have  the  matter  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Credentials  in  such  a  way 


144  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

that  no  man  should  be  a  judge  of  his  own  case. 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — Gentlemen  of  the  Convention : 
Having  successfully  passed  the  seventh  inning,  we  will  now  proceed  to 
finish  the  game.  I  understand  that  debate  is  closed  by  mutual  agree- 
ment. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — It  is. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — There  has  been  no  misunderstanding  about 
this  from  the  beginning.  By  mutual  agreement  debate  on  the  pending 
proposition  is  closed,  and  I  move  to  lay  on  the  table  the  motion  of  Gov- 
ernor Hadley,  of  Missouri.  (Cries  of  "No,  No!")  There  has  been  a 
change  in  the  program  from  the  time  when  it  was  originally  agreed  on. 
Governor  Deneen  was  to  make  a  motion,  and  afterward  Governor  Had- 
ley informed  me  he  would  make  the  motion,  and  because  of  the  misunder- 
standing, I  did  not  make  the  motion  I  intended. 

I  now  move  to  refer  Governor  Hadley's  motion  to  the  Committee  on 
Credentials. 

MR.  CHARLES  S.  DENEEN,  of  Illinois. — Mr.  Chairman :  I  move  as  an 
amendment  to  Representative  Watson's  motion  that  the  substitute  of  Gov- 
ernor Hadley  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  and  that  no 
delegate  whose  right  to  a  seat  in  this  Convention  is  questioned  by  that 
motion  have  a  right  to  vote  on  the  selection  of  the  members  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Credentials  or  on  the  report  of  the  Committee. 

MR.  FRANCIS  E.  McGovERN,  of  Wisconsin. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gen- 
tlemen of  the  Convention :  When  I  came  upon  the  platform  I  did  not 
know  that  an  agreement  had  been  reached  concerning  the  close  of  the 
debate.  I  now  learn  that  such  is  the  fact.  I  therefore  merely  desire  to 
second  the  motion  made  by  Governor  Deneen  of  Illinois. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen :  I  move  to 
lay  on  the  table  the  motion  of  Governor  Deneen  of  Illinois. 

MR.  HERBERT  PARSONS,  of  New  York. — Mr.  Chairman 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — That  question  is  not  debatable.  Are 
you  ready  for  the  question? 

MR.  PARSONS,  of  New  York. — I  rise  to  a  question  of  information. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  New  York  will 
state  it. 

MR.  PARSONS,  of  New  York. — I  ask  that  the  motion  of  Governor 
Deneen  be  again  stated. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Without  objection  the  parliamentary 
situation,  including  the  motion  made  by  Governor  Deneen,  will  be  stated 
to  the  Convention. 

The  SECRETARY. — Mr.  Watson  has  moved  that  the  motion  of  Governor 
Hadley  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  when  appointed. 
Governor  Deneen  has  moved  to  amend  that  motion  by  providing  that  the 
contested  delegates  shall  not  vote  on  the  matter  of  the  selection  of  the 


HOX.    HARRY    S.    XE\V,    of    Indiana, 
Chairman    of   the   Committee   on    Arrangements 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  145 

Committee  on  Credentials,  or  on  the  report  of  the  Committee  when  it  is 
presented.  That  motion  Mr.  Watson  has  moved  be  laid  on  the  table. 

MR.  PARSONS,  of  New  York. — A  question  of  information. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  will  state  his  question  of 
information. 

MR.  PARSONS,  of  New  York. — In  case  Governor  Deneen's  motion 
should  prevail,  none  of  the  78  names  mentioned  in  Governor  Hadley's 
motion  could  vote  upon  any  part  of  the  report  as  to  any  district? 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — That  is  the  understanding  of  the  Chair. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Mr.  Chairman 

MR.  PARSONS,  of  New  York. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  have  the  floor. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  New  York  has  the 
floor. 

MR.  PARSONS,  of  New  York. — And  that  would  exclude  them  from 
voting  on  the  report  as  to  any  of  the  78  members  on  the  temporary  roll? 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman's  understanding  is  cor- 
rect. 

MR.  JOHN  FRANKLIN  FORT,  of  New  Jersey. — A  point  of  order.  I 
submit  that  is  an  argument. 

MR.  PARSONS,  of  New  York. — That  was  a  question  which  I  asked  for 
information. 

MR.  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  demand  a  roll  call. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  Pennsylvania  asks 
for  a  roll  call. 

MR.  HERBERT  S.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — I  ask  for  a  roll  call. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Is  the  demand  seconded  by  two  States? 

MR.  FORT,  of  New  Jersey. — I  second  the  demand. 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — I  also  second  the  demand. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMA*N. — The  demand  for  the  yeas  and  nays  has 
been  seconded,  and  the  Secretary  will  call  the  roll  on  the  question  of 
agreeing  to  the  motion  made  by  the  gentleman  from  Indiana,  Mr.  Watson, 
to  lay  on  the  table  the  amendment  offered  by  the  gentleman  from  Illinois 
(Mr.  Deneen). 

MR.  D.  LAURENCE  GRONER,  of  Virginia. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  rise  to  a 
question  of  information. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  Virginia  will  state 
his  question  of  information. 

MR.  GRONER,  of  Virginia. — I  desire  to  be  advised,  if  the  motion  is 
adopted,  whether  it  means  that  delegates  from  Indiana  or  Michigan,  for 
instance,  whose  seats  are  contested  may  not  vote  upon  the  report  as  to 
the  contested  delegates  from  other  States? 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  understanding  of  the  Chair  is  that 
if  the  motion  of  Governor  Deneen  prevails,  no  one  of  the  72  delegates 
named  in  Governor  Hadley's  motion  can  vote  in  regard  to  the  committee, 


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or  on  the  question  of  the  right  of  any  other  of  the  72  delegates.  The 
Chair  will  further  state  that  the  laying  on  the  table  of  the  motion  made 
by  Governor  Deneen  carries  that  motion  only,  and  does  not  lay  upon  the 
table  the  main  question.  The  Secretary  will  call  the  roll. 

The  Secretary  proceeded  to  call  the  roll. 

MR.  POWELL  CLAYTON,  of  Arkansas  (when  the  State  of  Arkansas  was 
called).  —  Arkansas  votes  17  yeas,  1  nay. 

MR.  FERD  HAYIS,  of  Arkansas.  —  Mr.  Chairman,  I  challenge  the  vote, 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN.  —  The  vote  of  Arkansas  is  challenged. 
The  Secretary  will  call  the  roll  of  the  delegation  of  that  State,  and  as  each 
member's  name  is  called  he  will  respond  by  his  vote. 

MR.  HERBERT  S.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri.  —  Mr.  Chairman,  a  question  of 
order. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN.  —  The  gentleman  with  state  it. 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri.  —  I  wish  to  ask  if  the  individuals  whose 
titles  to  seats  here  are  challenged  are  to  vote  upon  this  motion. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN.  —  The  Chair  will  rule  upon  that  question 
at  the  conclusion  of  the  roll  call. 

The  Secretary  having  polled  the  Arkansas  delegation,  the  result  was 
announced  :  Yeas,  17  ;  nays,  1,  as  follows  : 


ARKANSAS. 

AT    LARGE. 


Delegates. 
Powell    Clayton 
H.    L.    Remmel 
C.  N.   Rix 
J.    E.    Bush 
DISTRICTS.  —  Delegates. 
i  —  Charles   R.    French 

Charles    T.    Bloodworth 

2—  H.    H.    Meyers 
R.   S.    Coffman 

3—  R.    S.    Granger 
J.    F.    Mayes 

4  —  C.    E.    Spear 

J.     O.    Livesay 

5  —  N.    B.    Burrow 

S.    A.    Jones 

6  —  Ferd    Havis 

C.    M.    Wade 

7  —  H.   G.   Friedheim 

T.    S.    Grayson 

Total 


Yea. 


Nay. 


The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  HIRAM  W.  JOHNSON,  of  California  (when  the  State  of  California 
was  called  V  —  California  votes  26  nays. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION. 


147 


MR.  E.  H.  TRYON,  of  California. — I  challenge  the  vote  of  California 
and  call  for  a  poll  of  the  delegation. 

The   TEMPORARY    CHAIRMAN.— The   vote   of   California   having   been 
challenged,  the  names  of  the  delegates  will  be  called. 

The  Secretary  called  the  roll  of  the  California   delegation,   and  the 
result  was  announced  :     Yeas,  2 ;  nays,  24,  as  follows  : 

CALIFORNIA. 


Delegates.  yea.  Nay 

Hiram    \V.    Johnson 

Chester     H.     Rovell 

Meyer    Lissner     

Francis    J.    Heney 

William     Kent      : 

Mrs.    Florence    C.    Porter 

Marshall     Stimson      

Frank    S.    Wallace 

George   C.    Pardee 

Lee    C.    Gates 

Clinton  L.  White 

John    M.    Eshleman     

C.     H.    Windham 

William    H.    Sloane 

C.    C.   Young 

Ralph    W.    Bull 

S.    C.    Beach 

John   H.    McCallum 

Truxton     Beale 

W.    G.    Tillotson 

Sumner    Crosby      

Charles    E.    Snook 

Mrs.    Isabella    W.    Blaney 

Jessie    L.    Hurlburt     

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

4— E.    H.    Tryon i 

Morris   Meyerfeld,   Jr i 


MR.  JOHNSON,  of  California. — Where  are  the  two  district  delegates 
from  California  who  have  voted  yea?  They  are  not  with  their  delegation. 

SEVERAL  DELEGATES. — They  are  oo  the  platform. 

MR.  JOHNSON,  of  California. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  rise  to  a  question  of 
information.  Are  delegates  entitled  to  sit  upon  the  platform,  or  are  only 
those  contested  delegates  entitled  to  sit  there? 

The  TEMPORARY'  CHAIRMAN.— The  gentleman  is  not  in  order.  The 
gentleman  will  remain  quiat. 

MR.  JOHNSON,  of  California. — They  are  voting  on  their  own  cases. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  we  must 
take  this  vote  which  has  been  asked  for  by  the  representatives  of  both 
sides  of  this  question ;  and  we  cannot  take  it  unless  more  order  is  ob- 


148  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

served.  The  Chair  begs  each  of  you  individually  to  be  a  little  more  quiet 
so  that  the  votes  can  be  heard. 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  H.  L.  JOHNSON,  of  Georgia  (when  the  State  of  Georgia  was 
called). — Georgia  casts  24  votes  yea,  4  nay. 

MR.  CLARK  GRIER,  of  Georgia. — I  challenge  the  vote  and  ask  for  a  roll 
call  of  the  Georgia  delegation. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  vote  of  the  State  of  Georgia  hav- 
ing been  challenged,  the  Secretary  will  call  the  roll  of  that  delegation. 

The  SECRETARY  OF  THE  NATIONAL  COMMITTEE  (Mr.  William  Hay- 
ward). — Do  you  challenge  the  correctness  of  the  vote  cast  by  the  State  of 
Georgia? 

MR.  GRIER,  of  Georgia. — I  do  not  challenge  Mr.  Johnson's  statement, 
but  I  ask  for  a  roll  call  of  the  Georgia  delegation. 

A  DELEGATE. — He  does  not  challenge  the  vote.  He  simply  wants  the 
names  to  go  on  record. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  calling  of  the  roll  will  be  proceeded 
with. 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  HARRY  S.  NEW,  of  Indiana  (when  the  State  of  Indiana  was 
called). — Indiana  votes  20  yea,  9  nay,  1  not  voting. 

MR.  DAVID  E.  HARRIS,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman,  it  was  agreed  in 
our  delegation  yesterday  that  the  Chairman  of  the  delegation  would  cast 
our  vote  20  and  10. 

MR.  NEW,  of  Indiana. — No,  it  was  not.  I  cannot  cast  the  vote  of  a 
man  who  is  not  here. 

The  SECRETARY  OF  THE  NATIONAL  COMMITTEE. — Do  you  challenge  the 
correctness  of  the  vote? 

MR.  HARRIS,  of  Indiana. — Yes,  I  challenge  the  vote. 

MR.  NEW,  of  Indiana. — I  did  not  make  any  agreement.  I  asked  you 
gentlemen  of  our  delegation  if  on  these  preliminary  votes  it  was  under- 
stood that  we  would  line  up  here  20  to  10. 

MR.  HARRIS,  of  Indiana. — But  you  have  not  cast  this  vote  that  way. 

MR.  NEW,  of  Indiana. — I  say  I  have  no  right  to  cast  the  vote  of  a  man 
who  is  not  here.  Challenge  the  vote  and  have  it  out. 

The  SECRETARY  OF  THE  NATIONAL  COMMITTEE. — Do  you  withdraw  your 
challenge  of  the  vote? 

MR.  HARRIS,  of  Indiana. — No,  sir. 

The  SECRETARY  OF  THE  NATIONAL  COMMITTEE. — Do  you  challenge  the 
correctness  of  the  vote? 

MR.  HARRIS,  of  Indiana. — Yes. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  vote  of  Indiana  as  announced  has 
been  challenged,  and  the  roll  of  delegates  from  that  State  will  be  called. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  149 

The  Secretary  called  the  roll  of  the  Indiana  delegation,  and  the  result 
was  announced:  Yeas,  20;  nays,  9;  not  voting,  1,  as  follows: 

INDIANA. 

AT    LARGE. 

Delegates.  Yea.        Nay.    Not  Voting. 

Harry    S.    New i 

Charles     W.     Fairbanks i 

James    E.     Watson i 

Joseph  D.   Oliver i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — James    A.    Hemenway i 

Charles   F.    Heilman i 

2 — David  R.   Scott    .   .  .  '. i 

Jerry    Wooden      I 

3 — George     W.     Applegate i 

Cyrus    M.    Crim     i 

4 — Oscar    H.    Montgomery i 

Web    Woodfill      i 

5 — William   R.    McKeen    (By  Jacob    White,   alternate)  .   .        i 

Silas   A.    Hays i 

6 — Enos    Porter     i 

Thomas    C.     Bryson i 

7 — William    E.    English i 

Samuel    L.    Shank i 

8— Harold    Hobbs     i 

Edward    C.    Toner i 

9 — William     Holton     Dye i 

William     Endicott i 

10 — William   R.    Wood i 

Percy    A.    Parry i 

1 1 — David    E.    Harris i 

John    P.    Kenower i 

12 — R.    H.    Rerick    (By    Lloyd   T.    Bailey,    alternate) i 

Henry    Brown      i 

13 — Clement   W.   Studebaker i 

Maurice    Fox i 


MR.  DYE,  of  Indiana. — I  challenge  the  votes  of  Studebaker  and  Fox, 
from  the  Thirteenth  district,  because  their  seats  are  contested. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  calling  of  the  roll  will  be  resumed. 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  W.  O.  BRADLEY,  of  Kentucky  (when  the  State  of  Kentucky  was 
called). — Kentucky  casts  24  yeas,  2  nays. 

MR.  D.  C.  EDWARDS,  of  Kentucky. — I  request  that  the  roll  of  Kentucky 
be  called. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Does  the  gentleman  from  Kentucky 
challenge  the  correctness  of  the  vote? 

MR.  EDWARDS,  of  Kentucky. — I  do. 


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The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  roll  of  Kentucky  will  be  called. 

The  Secretary  proceeded  to  call  the  roll  of  Kentucky. 

MR.  BRADLEY,  of  Kentucky  (when  the  name  of  W.  D.  Cochran  was 
called). — Mr.  Cochran  is  absent.  Call  his  alternate. 

MR.  W.  J.  SEITZ,  alternate  for  W.  D.  COCHRAN,  was  called,  and  he 
voted  in  the  affirmative. 

MR.  EDWARDS,  of  Kentucky. — I  challenge  the  vote  of  the  alternate. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — On  what  ground? 

MR.  EDWARDS,  of  Kentucky. — The  name  of  James  Breathitt,  a  dele- 
gate, has  been  called  and  he  kas  not  answered.  W.  J.  Seitz  is  not  the  al- 
ternate for  James  Breathitt,  but  J.  C.  Speight  is  his  alternate,  and  he  has 
not  answered  to  his  name.  Neither  the  delegate  nor  the  alternate  has 
answered. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Secretary  will  report  whether  the 
name  called  is  upon  the  roll  as  an  alternate. 

The  SECRETARY. — Mr.  James  Breathitt  is  on  the  roll  as  a  regular  dele- 
gate. His  alternate  is  J.  C.  Speight.  \Y.  D.  Cochran  is  a  regular  dele- 
gate, and  his  alternate  is  W.  J.  Seitz,  and  Mr.  Seitz  has  voted  as  the 
alternate  for  Mr.  Cochran. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  rules  that  the  point  of  order 
raised  by  the  gentleman  from  Kentucky  is  not  well  taken. 

The  Secretary  having  resumed  and  concluded  the  calling  of  the  roll 
of  the  Kentucky  delegation,  the  result  was  announced:  Yeas,  23;  nays,  2; 
not  voting,  1,  as  follows : 

KENTUCKY. 

AT     LARGE. 

Delegates.  Yea.  -Vajr. 

W.    O.    Bradley 

James    Breathitt    (By    \V.    J.    Seitz,    alternate) 

W.    D.    Cochran 

J.    E.    Wood 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i— \V.    J.    Deboe 

John   T.   Tooke 

2 — R.   A.   Cook 

J.    B.   Harvey 

3— R.   E.   Keown 

R.    P.    Green 

4 — Pilson     Smith      

J.    Roy    Bond 

5 — William  Heyburn 

Bernard    Bernheim 

6 — Maurice    L.    Galvin 

W.    A.    Burkarr.p 

7— R.    C.    Stoll 

James  Cureton 

8 — Coleman   C.    Wallace 

Leonard  W.   Bethurem I 


'<•    '  FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  151 

KENTUCKY.— Continued. 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates.  Yea.          Nay. 

9 — John  Russell i 

W.  C.  Halbert i 

10 — A.  B.  Patrick i 

John  H.   Hardwick i 

1 1 — D.   C.   Edwards i 

O.    M.    Waddle i 

MR.  W.  D.  COCHRAN,  of  Kentucky. — I  was  temporarily  absent  when 
the  Kentucky  delegation  was  called,  and  did  not  vote.  I  wish  to  have  my 
vote  recorded  "yea." 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  vote  of  Kentucky  will  be  recorded 
— yeas  24,  nays  2. 

MR.  EDWARDS,  of  Kentucky. — May  we  have  this  vote  again?  I  chal- 
lenge that  count.  Neither  James  Breathitt  nor  his  alternate  has  answered. 

MR.  BRADLEY,  of  Kentucky. — The  next  alternate  voted. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  vote  of  Kentucky  stands  as  re- 
corded. 

MR.  EDWARDS,  of  Kentucky. — I  challenge  the  vote  as  announced. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  is  not  in  order.  The 
count  has  been  returned  by  the  Secretary,  and  it  must  stand  as  the  vote 
of  the  delegates  from  Kentucky. 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  JAMES  W.  WADSWORTH,  JR.,  of  New  York  (when  New  York  was 
called). — Mr.  Chairman,  a  roll  call  is  asked  for  by  one  delegate. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — New  York  must  first  announce  its  vote. 

MR.  WADSWORTH,  JR.,  of  New  York. — Has  one  delegate  a  right  at  this 
time  to  secure  a  slow  roll  call  of  the  delegation? 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — A  delegate  has  not.  The  vote  of  the 
State  must  first  be  announced,  and  if  the  vote  when  announced  is  chal- 
lenged, then  the  delegate  can  demand  a  roll  call. 

MR.  WADSWORTH,  JR.,  of  New  York — New  York  casts  78  votes  yea,  12 
nay. 

MR.  JACOB  L.  HOLTZMAN,  of  New  York. — I  challenge  the  correctness 
of  the  roll  call. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  New  York  having 
challenged  the  correctness  of  the  roll  call  of  the  State  of  New  York,  the 
roll  of  that  delegation  will  be  called. 

The  Secretary  proceeded  to  call  the  roll  of  the  New  York  delegation. 

When  the  name  of  James  E.  March,  delegate  from  the  Thirteenth 
district,  was  called,  there  was  no  response,  and  Mr.  John  Boyle,  Jr.,  his 
alternate,  voted  "Yea" 

The  Secretary  resumed  and  concluded  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  TIMOTHY  L.  WOODRUFF,  of  New  York. — Mr.  Chairman,  will  you 
please  have  the  name  of  James  E.  March  called  again. 


152  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  alternate  has  already  voted. 

MR.  WOODRUFF,  of  New  York. — There  was  no  alternate.  Mr.  March  is 
here  sitting  next  to  me  and  voted.  I  demand  that  his  name  be  called. 

A  DELEGATE. — He  refused  to  answer. 

MR.  WOODRUFF,  of  New  York. — He  did  not  refuse  to  answer,  but 
he  voted  "Yea." 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Secretary  will  again  call  the  name 
of  Mr.  March. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Mr.  March. 

MR.  JAMES  E.  MARCH,  of  New  York. — I  wish  to  change  my  vote  to 
"Nay."  (Applause.) 

The  result  of  the  vote  of  the  New  York  delegation  was  then  an- 
nounced :  Yeas,  75 ;  nays,  15,  as  follows : 

NEW  YORK. 

AT     LARGE. 

Delegates.  Yea.           Nay. 

Elihu   Root i 

William    Barnes,   Jr I 

Edwin  A.   Merritt,  Jr i 

William    Berri     i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — William    Carr i 

Smith   Cox i 

2 — Theron   H.    Burden i 

Frank   E.    Losec i 

3 — David     Towle      i 

Alfred     E.     Vass ' i 

4 — Timothy    L.    Woodruff i 

William    A.    Prendergast i 

S — William   Berri    (By  Robert  Wellwood,   alternate')  ...  i 

Alfred    T.     Hobley i 

6— William  M.   Calder i 

Lewis    M.     Swasey i 

7 — Michael   J.    Dady i 

Jacob   Brenner i 

8 — Marcus   B.    Campbell i 

Frederick   Linde i 

9 — Thomas    B.    Lineburgh i 

Rhinehard    H.    Pforr i 

10 — Clarence    B.    Smith i 

Jacob     L.     Holtzman i 

ii — George    Cromwell     i 

Chauncey     M.     Depew i 

12 — J.    VanVechten    Olcott i 

Alexander    Wolf     i 

13 — James    E.    March i 

Charles  H.  Murray i 

14 — Samuel    S.    Koenig i 

Frederick  C.  Tanner i 

15— Job  E.   Hedges   (By  Courtlandt  Nicoll,  alternate)  '   i 

Ezra   P.   Prentice I 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  153 

NEW   YORK.—  Continued. 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates.  Yea.  Nay. 

16 — Otto  T.   Bannard i 

Martin    Steinthal     i 

17 — Nicholas   Murray   Butler i 

William   H.    Douglas i 

18— Ogden    L.     Mills i 

Charles    L.     Bernheimer i 

19 — Samuel    Strasbourger     i 

Louis    N.    Hammerling i 

20 — Herbert  Parsons i 

Samuel    Krulewitch i 

21 — Lloyd    C.    Griscom i 

Frank  K.  Bowers i 

22 — James    L.     Wells i 

Ernest    F.    Eilert i 

23 — Josiah    T.     Newcomb i 

Herman    T.    Redin i 

24 — Alexander  E.  Cochran  (By  Jno.  H.  Nichols,  alternate)     i 

William   Archer i 

25— William  L.   Ward i 

John  J.    Brown i 

26 — Joseph    M.    Dickey i 

Samuel  K.  Phillips i 

27 — Louis    F.    Payn i 

Martin    Cantine i 

28 — James    H.    Perkins i 

Alba    M.    Ide i 

29 — Louis  W.   Emerson i 

Cornelius   V.    Collins i 

30 — Lucius  N.  Littauer i 

J.    Leddlie    Hees i 

31 — George  R.   Malby • i 

John   H.    Moffit.  . i 

32 — Francis  M.  Hugo i 

Perry   G.    Williams i 

33 — Judson  J.  Gilbert i 

William    S.   Doolittle i 

34 — George  W.   Fairchild i 

Lafayette  B.  Gleason    (By  Henry  D.  Newton,   Alt.)       i 
35 — Francis  Hendricks i 

James  M.  Gilbert i 

36 — Sereno  E.   Payne i 

Albert   M.    Patterson i 

37 — Andrew  D.  White  (By  Edward  H.  Wands,  Alt.)  i 

Alanson    B.    Houghton i 

38 — George   W.    Aldridge i 

James    L.    Hotchkiss i 

39 — James   W.    Wadsworth i 

Frederick    C.     Stevens i 

40— William    H.    Daniels i 

James   S.   Simmons i 

41— Charles  P.*  Woltz I 

Nathan  Wolff  (By  John  H.  Clogston,  alternate)          i 


154  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS   OF  THE 

NEW   YORK.— Continued. 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates.  Yea.  Nay. 

42 — John  Grimm I 

Simon  Seibert   (By  Charles  H.   Brown,  alternate)       i 
43 — Frank    Sullivan    Smith I 

Frank    O.    Anderson i 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  RICHMOND  PEARSON,  of  North  Carolina  (when  North  Carolina 
was  called). — As  chairman  of  the  North  Carolina  delegation,  I  have  been 
instructed  by  resolution  to  cast  the  vote  of  North  Carolina  23  to  1  in 
favor  of  Roosevelt  on  all  motions  preliminary  to  the  ballot  for  the  nom- 
ination for  President.  I  therefore  announce  the  vote  of  North  Carolina 
in  accordance  with  that  resolution,  1  yea  and  23  nay. 

MR.  JOHN  C.  MATTHEWS,  of  North  Carolina. — Mr.  Chairman,  the 
chairman  of  the  North  Carolina  delegation  announced  one  vote  yea,  which 
was  from  the  First  district.  I  am  from  the  Fourth  district,  and  I  also 
desire  to  be  recorded  "Yea." 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Does  the  gentleman  challenge  the  vote 
of  North  Carolina? 

MR.  MATTHEWS,  of  North  Carolina. — Yes. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Do  you  desire  a  roll  call? 

MR.  MATTHEWS,  of  North  Carolina. — Yes. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  vote  of  North  Carolina  having  been 
challenged,  the  Secretary  will  call  the  roll  of  that  delegation. 

The  Secretary  called  the  roll  of  the  North  Carolina  delegation,  and 
the  result  was  announced :  Yeas,  2 ;  nays,  22,  as  follows : 

NORTH  CAROLINA. 

AT    LARGE. 

Delegates.                                                                                Yea.  Nay. 

Zeb    V.    Walser i 

Richmond   Pearson I 

Thomas   E.    Owen i 

Cyrus  Thompson i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Isaac    M.    Meekins i 

Wheeler  Martin i 

2 — Daniel   W.    Patrick i 

George  W.  Stanton i 

3 — Marion  Butler i 

W.    S.    O'B.    Robinson i 

4 — J.  C.  L.  Harris i 

John    C.    Matthews i 

5 — James    N.    Williamson,    Jr i 

John    T.    Benbow i 

6— R.    S.    White i 

D.    H.    Sente. i 

7— C.  H.   Cowles i 

J.  T.  Hedrick I 

8 — Moses  N.  Harshaw I 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  155 

NORTH  CAROLINA.— Continued. 
DISTRICTS. — Delegates.  Y«a.          Nay. 

W.    Henry   Hobson 

9 — S.    S.   McNinch 

Charles  E.  Green 

IB — A.    T.    Pritchard 

R.   H.    Staton  . 


The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  CHARLES  W.  ACKERSON,  of  Oregon  (when  Oregon  was  called). — 
Mr.  Chairman,  a  roll  call. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Does  the  gentleman  challenge  the  vote 
of  Oregon? 

MR.  ACKERSON,  of  Oregon. — I  do. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  vote  being  challenged,  the  Secretary 
will  call  the  roll  of  the  Oregon  delegation. 

The  Secretary  called  the  roll  of  the  Oregon  delegation,  and  the  result 
was  announced  :     Yeas,  5 ;  nays,  5,  as  follows  : 
C 

OREGON. 

AT     LARGE. 

Delegates.  Yea.  Nay. 

Charles  W.   Ackerson i 

Daniel    Boyn i 

Fred    S.    Bynon i 

Homer  C.  Campbell i 

Charles    H.     Carey i 

Henry    Waldo    Coe _ i 

D.  D.  Hail i 

Thomas   McCusker i 

J.    N.    Smith i 

A.    V.   Swift.  i 


The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania  (when  Pennsylvania  was 
called). — Pennsylvania  casts  11  votes  yea,  65  nay. 

MR.  E.  R.  WOOD,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  demand  a  call  of  the  roll  of 
the  Pennsylvania  delegation. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — When  the  vote  of  the  delegation  shall 
have  been  challenged,  the  roll  of  the  delegation  will  be  called. 

MR.  WOOD,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  challenge  the  vote. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Mr.  Chairman 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — For  what  purpose  does  the  gentleman 
rise? 


156  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS   OF  THE 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  rise  for  the  purpose  of  sav- 
ing the  time  of  the  Convention,  for  one  thing. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — That  is  not  in  order. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  rise  for  the  purpose  of  get- 
ting a  correct  ruling,  if  you  will  listen  to  me. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  will  state  the  question 
of  order. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — My  question  of  order  is  this — 
and  that  will  only  necessitate  calling  one  Congressional  district — 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  will  state  his  point  of 
order. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — In  the  Twenty-third  Congres- 
sional district  Allen  F.  Cooper,  the  delegate,  is  not  here.  The  Secretary 
of  the  National  Committee — 

MR.  JOSIAH  T.  NEWCOMB,  of  New  York. — That  does  not  present  a 
point  of  order. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  Pennsylvania  must 
state  his  point  of  order.  He  is  not  doing  it. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  am  stating  it,  and  I  will 
then  leave  it  to  the  Chair  to  rule,  so  as  to  have  it  settled  for  all  time. 

The  Secretary  of  the  National  Committee,  who  made  up  this  roll, 
informed  me  as  chairman  of  the>  Pennsylvania  delegation  that  the  alter- 
nate  

MR.  W.  E.  ENGLISH,  of  Indiana. — That  is  not  a  point  of  order. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  is  not  stating  a  point  of 
order. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  will  get  through  in  a  min- 
ute, and  I  will  save  you  at  lot  of  time.  I  only  want  you  to  call  one  Con- 
gressional district. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  cannot  raise  that  question 
during  the  roll  call.  The  vote  having  been  challenged,  the  roll  must  be 
called. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  understand  that. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  must  rule  the  gentleman  to 
be  out  of  order. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — You  will  not  hear  my  state- 
ment, then?  It  will  take  me  only  a  moment.  I  merely  want  to  have  the 
Chair 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  cannot  be  heard  at  this 
time. 

THE  SECRETARY. — Mr.  Flinn,  please  sit  down  and  we  will  call  the  roll. 

The  Secretary  called  the  roll  of  the  Pennsylvania  delegation,  and  the 
result  was  announced :  Yeas,  12 ;  nays,  64,  as  follows : 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  157 

PENNSYLVANIA. 

AT    LARGE. 

Delegates.                                                                           Yea.  Nay. 

Ziba    T.    Moore I 

H.    H.    Gilkyson i 

William  P.  Young I 

Robert  D.   Towne I 

John   E.   Schiefley • i 

William    H.    Hackenberg i 

George  R.   Scull i 

Owen    C.    Underwood i 

William    W.    Kincaid i 

Lex  N.  Mitchell i 

Fred  W.   Brown i 

George    H.    Flinn i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 
i— Hugh    Black i 

William    S.    Vare i 

2 — E.  T.  Stotesbury  (By  Howard  B.  French,  alternate)       i 

John    Wanamaker i 

3 — J.    H.    Bromley i 

Harry    C.    Ransley i 

4 — H.  Horace  Dawson i 

Charles  F.    Freihofer i 

5 — William    Disston I  .. 

John    T.    Murphy i 

6 — Samuel  Crothers i 

William   Draper   Lewis i 

7 — John    J.    Gheen i 

James    W.    Mercur i 

8— B.    C.    Foster i 

C.  Tyson  Kratz i 

9 — William   W.    Griest  .   .   .  ". i 

William    H.    Keller i 

10 — John  Von  Bergen,  Jr i 

Gro.   B.   Carson i 

ii — Stephen  J.   Hughes i 

David    M.    Rosser i 

12 — Thomas   R.    Edwards i 

H.    D.    Lindermuth i 

13 — Fred    E.    Lewis i 

B.    Frank    Ruth i 

14 — Bradley    W.    Lewis i 

Dana    R.    Stephens i 

15 — Harry    W.    Pyles i 

Robert  K.  Young i 

1 6 — A  very    Clinton    Sickles I 

W.  H.  Unger  .   . ' i 

17 — Thomas    A.    Appleby i 

Charles     B.     Clayton i 

18 — Harry   Hertzler i 

Charles    E.    Landis i 

19 — W.   Lovell   Baldridge i 

Mahlon    H.    Myers i 


158  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 

PENNSYLVANIA.— Continued. 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates.                                                               Yea.  Nay. 

20— F.    H.    Beard i 

Grier   Hersh i 

21 — E.  G.  Boose . .  i 

Guy  B.  Mayo i 

22 — John    C.    Dight i 

William  C.  Peoples .       . .  i 

23 — Harvey  M.   Berkeley i 

Allen  F.  Cooper  (By  Geo.  W.  Newcomer,  alternate)         i 

24 — James  H.   Cunningham i 

Geerge    Davidson     i 

23— Phillip  J.    Barber i 

Manley    O.    Brown i 

26 — Leighton    C.    Scott i 

William   Tonkin i 

27 — J.    W.    Foust i 

Harry  W.   Truitt i 

28 — John    L.    Morrison i 

J.    C.    Russell i 

29 — Judd    H.    Bruff i 

Richard  R.   Quay i 

30 — William   H.   Coleman i 

Samuel  C.  Jamison i 

31 — William  Flinn i 

Charles    F.    Frazee i 

32 — David  B.  Johns i 

Louis  P.  Schneider i 

12  64 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  H.  F.  MCGREGOR,,  of  Texas  (when  Texas  was  called). — Texas 
votes  yeas,  29 ;  nays,  10 ;  not  voting,  1. 

MR.  L.  S.  MCDOWELL,  of  Texas. — I  challenge  that  roll. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  vote  of  Texas  having  been  chal- 
lenged, the  roll  of  delegates  from  Texas  will  be  called. 

The  Secretary  proceeded  to  call  the  roll  of  the  T«xas  delegation,  and 
called  the  name  of  Eugene  Greer,  of  the  Twelfth  district.  There  being 
no  response,  his  alternate,  I.  B.  Cupp,  was  called,  and  there  being  no  re- 
sponse, the  name  of  Sam  Davidson,  alternate,  was  called,  and  he  voted 
"Nay." 

MR.  H.  M.  MOORE,  of  Texas. — Mr.  Davidson  is  not  the  alternate  for 
Mr.  Greer. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  name  of  the  first  alternate  from  that 
district  having  been  called,  and  he  not  having  responded,  the  name  of  the 
second  alternate  from  that  district  has  been  called,  and  he  has  voted. 

The  Secretary,  having  resumed  and  concluded  the  calling  of  the  roll 
of  the  Texas  delegation,  the  result  was  amiounced :  Yeas,  29 ;  nays,  9 ;  not 
voting,  2,  as  follows  : 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  159 

TEXAS. 

AT     LARGE. 

Delegates.  Yea.        Nay.     Not  Voting. 

H.    F.    McGregor i 

W.     C.     Averille i 

C.    K.    McDowell i 

J.    E.    Lutz t 

J.    E.    Elgin i 

W.    H.    Love i 

W.    M.    McDonald i 

G.    W.     Burroughs i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i— Phil    E.    Baer i 

R.    B.    Harrison i 

2 — George   W.    Eason i 

C.     L.     Rutt i 

3 — F.     N.     Hopkins .  .  i 

J.    L.    Jackson i 

4 — A.    L.    Dyer i 

M.     O.     Sharp i 

5 — Eugene  Marshall i 

Harry    Beck i 

6 — J.    Allen    Myers i 

Rube    Freedman i 

7 — J.    H.    Hawley i 

H.    L.    Price i 

8— C.    A.    Warnken i 

Spencer    Graves i 

9 — C.   M.   Hughes    (By  Edward  S.   Glaze,  alternate)  ...         i 

M.    M.    Rodgers i 

10 — H.    M.    Moore i 

F.   L.   Welch i 

ii — T.    J.    Darling ..  i 

B.  G.  Ward i 

12 — Eugene  Greer   (By  Sam  Davidson,  alternate) i 

C.  C.     Littleton i 

13 — W.    H.    Featherston i 

F.   H.   Hill i 

14 — J.    M.    Oppenheimer i 

John  Hall i 

15 — J.  C.  Scott i 

T.  J.   Martin i 

16 — L.    S.   McDowell i 

U.    S.    Stewart i 

19  9  2 

The  Secretary  resumed  and  concluded  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Gentlemen,  during  the  roll  call  Gov- 
ernor Hadley  raised  a  question  of  order  upon  the  right  of  a  delegate  from 
Arkansas,  whose  name  was  upon  his  list,  to  vote  upon  this  motion  to  lay 
upon  the  table.  He  renewed  or  wished  to  have  it  understood  that  he  re- 
newed the  same  point  of  order  with  regard  to  each  one  of  the  delegates 


160  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS   OF  THE 

whose  names  were  upon  the  list,  and  it  was  understood  that  the  point  was 
to  be  reserved  until  the  conclusion  of  the  roll  call,  and  was  to  be  ruled 
upon  before  the  announcement. 

The  Chair  now  rules  upon  the  point  of  order  as  follows : 
No  man  can  be  permitted  to  vote  upon  the  question  of  his  own  right 
to  a  seat  in  the  Convention,  but  the  rule  does  not  disqualify  any  delegate 
whose  name  is  upon  the  roll  from  voting  upon  the  contest  of  any  other 
man's  right,  or  from  participating  in  the  ordinary  business  of  the  Con- 
vention so  long  as  he  holds  his  seat.  Otherwise,  any  minority  could  se- 
cure control  of  a  deliberative  body  by  grouping  a  sufficient  number  of  their 
opponents  in  one  motion,  and  by  thus  disqualifying  them  turn  the  minority 
into  a  majority  without  any  decision  upon  the  merits  of  the  motion. 

The  manual  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  whose  rules  we  follow, 
contains  a  statement  of  the  parliamentary  law  followed  in  the  House : 

"It  is  a  principle  of  'immemorial  observance'  that  a  member  should 
withdraw  when  a  question  concerning  himself  arises ;  but  it  has  been 
held  that  the  disqualifying  interest  must  be  such  as  affects  the  mem- 
ber directly  and  not  as  one  of  a  class.  In  a  case  where  questions  af- 
fected the  titles  of  several  members  to  their  seats,  each  refrained  from 
voting  in  his  own  case,  but  did  vote  on  the  identical  cases  of  his  as- 
sociates." 

The  parliamentarians,  who  are  furnished  under  the  rules  to  aid  the 
Chair,  call  attention  to  the  fact  that  in  the  National  House  of  Representa- 
tives the  Hon.  John  G.  Carlisle  not  only  exercised  all  the  functions  of  a 
member,  but  was  also  chosen  Speaker,  and  in  that  capacity  appointed  the 
committees  of  the  House  and  performed  all  other  duties  of  that  office, 
although  there  was  at  the  time  a  contest  pending  against  his  right  to  a 
seat  in  the  House. 

Neither  Thomas  B.  Reed,  nor  any  other  of  the  noted  Republicans  in 
that  House  raised  any  objection  on  that  score.  It  was  conceded  by  all 
that  until  the  contest  was  decided  Mr.  Carlisle  had  every  right  of  a  mem- 
ber, and  he  enjoyed  the  same  privileges  as  every  other  member. 

To  hold  that  a  member  whose  seat  is  contested  may  take  no  part  in 
the  proceedisgs  of  this  body  would  lead  to  the  conclusion  that  if  every 
seat  were  contested,  as  it  surely  would  be  if  such  a  rule  were  adopted, 
there  could  be  no  Convention  at  all,  as  nobody  would  be  entitled  to  par- 
ticipate. (Applause.) 

The  Chair  accordingly  overrules  the  point  of  order. 
The  Secretary  will  now  announce  the  result  of  the  roll  call  on  the 
question  of  agreeing  to  the  motion  of  the  gentleman  from  Indiana  (Mr. 
Watson)  to  lay  on  the  table  the  amendment  of  the  gentleman  from  Illi- 
nois (Mr.  Deneen)  to  the  substitute  of  the  gentleman  from  Missouri 
(Mr.  Hadley). 

The  result  was  announced :  Yeas,  567 ;  nays,  507 ;  not  voting,  4,  as 
follows : 


IIOX.   FRAXKLTX   MURPHY,  of  New  Jersey, 
Member  of.  Cgnnnittee  <jn.   Arrangements. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  161 

States,   Territories  and  Number  Not 

Delegate  Districts.                                                of  Votes.  Yeas.    Nays.  Voting. 

Alabama 24  22  2 

Arizona 6  6 

Arkansas 18  17  i 

California 26  2  24 

Colorado 12  12 

Connecticut 14  14 

Delaware 6  6 

Florida 12  12 

Georgia 28  24  4 

Idaho 8  ..  8 

Illinois 58  .       7  51 

Indiana     30  20  9             i 

Iowa 26  1 6  10 

Kansas 20  2  18 

Kentucky 26  24  2 

Louisiana 20  20 

Maine 12  . .  12 

Maryland 16  9  7 

Massachusetts 36  18  18 

Michigan      30  20  10 

Minnesota 24  . .  24 

Mississippi 20  16  4 

Missouri 36  16  20 

Montana 8  8 

Nebraska 16  .  .  16 

Nevada 6  6 

New  Hampshire 8  8 

New    Jersey 28  . .  28 

New    Mexico 8  7  i 

New  York 90  75  15 

North    Carolina 24  2  22 

North    Dakota ' 10  2  8 

Ohio 48  14  34 

Oklahoma 20  4  16 

Oregon      10  5  5 

Pennsylvania     76  12  64 

Rhode    Island 10  10 

South     Carolina 18  n  6             i 

South    Dakota. 10  . .  10 

Tennessee 34  23  j 

Texas     40  29  9             a 

Utah 8  7  i 

Vermont 8  6  * 

Virginia 34  ai  3 

Washington 14  14 

West  Virginia 16  . .  16 

Wisconsin 26  . .  26 

Wyoming 6  6 

Alaska 2  a 

District    of    Columbia 2  2 

Hawaii 6  6 

Philippine    Islands 2  2 

Porto  Rico 2  a 

1,078  567          S07              4 


162  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF  THE 

So  Mr.  DENEEN'S  amendment  was  laid  on  the  table. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  now  is  upon  the  motion 
of  the  gentleman  from  Indiana  (Mr.  Watson)  to  refer  the  amendment  of 
the  gentleman  from  Missouri  (Mr.  Hadley)  to  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials when  appointed. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  now  is  upon  the  original 
motion  of  the  gentleman  from  Indiana  (Mr.  Watson)  for  the  appointment 
of  the  four  standing  committees. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  motion  just  agreed  to  provides  that 
the  delegations  from  the  several  States  shall  now  send  up  to  the  platform 
or  announce  orally  the  names  of  the  members  from  their  respective  States 
of  the  four  standing  committees. 

The  committees  as  constituted  are  as   follows :  . 

COMMITTEE    ON    PERMANENT    ORGANIZATION. 

Alabama Alex.    C.    Birch 

Arizona Robert   E.    Morrison 

Arkansas R.    S.    Granger 

California Francis  J.    Heney 

Colorado Thomas   H.   Devine 

Connecticut John    Henry    Roraback 

Delaware Edmund    Mitchell 

Florida M.   B.  McFarlane 

Georgia Henry  Blun 

Idaho Clency    St.    Clair 

Illinois Robert    R.    McCormick 

Indiana     lames  A.   Hemenway 

Iowa Tames  A.  Devitt 

Kansas Ralph   A.   Harris 

Kentucky M.    L.    Galvin 

Louisiana Walter   L.    Cohen 

Maine Jesse    M.    Libby 

Maryland E.    C.    Carrington,  Jr. 

Massachusetts 

Michigan      T.   W.   Atwood 

Minnesota Hugh    T.    Halbert 

Mississippi L.    B.    Moseley 

Missouri Jesse   A.   Tolerton 

Montana O.    M.   Lanstrum 

Nebraska H.    R.    Sackett 

Nevada E.    E.    Roberts 

New  Hampshire Fred   W.    Estabrook 

New    Jersey John    Boyd    Avis 

New    Mexico Hugo    Seaberg 

New   York George    P.    Maltby 

North    Carolina Charles   H.    Cowles 

North    Da!:ota \V.    S.    Lander 

Ohio John    J.    Sullivan 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL  CONVENTION.  163 

COMMITTEE    ON    PERMANENT    ORGANIZATION.— Continued. 

Oklahoma Dan    Norton 

Oregon      A.  V.  Swift 

Pennsylvania     Lex   N.    Mitchell 

Rhode    Island George  R.  Lawton 

South     Carolina R.    R.   Tolbert,   Jr. 

South    Dakota S.  X.  Way 

Tennessee John    H.    Early 

Texas     C.  A.  Warnken 

Utah William    Spry 

Vermont J.    Gray    Estey 

Virginia L.    P.    Summers 

Washington W.    T.    Dovell 

West  Virginia Harry    Shaw 

Wisconsin Samuel  H.  Cady 

Wyoming     Frank    W.    Mondell 

Alaska L.     P.     Shakleford 

District    of    Columbia Aaron    Bradshaw 

Hawaii C.    A.    Rice 

Philippine    Islands Thomas   L.    Hartigan 

Porto   Rico Sosthenes   Behn 

COMMITTEE    OX    CREDENTIALS. 

Alabama James    I.    Abercrombie 

Arizona     T.    C.   Adams 

Arkansas J.   E.   Bush 

California George    C.    Pardee 

Colorado Casimcro    Barela 

Connecticut Irving    H.    Chase 

Delaware S.   S.   Pennewill 

Florida M.    Paige 

Georgia ,,  .   .  J.     \\.     Martin 

Idaho F.   E.    Fisk 

Illinois Ira    C.     Copley 

Indiana     Oscar    H.    Montgomery 

Iowa W.    S.    Lewis 

Kansas Ulysses   S.    Sartin 

Kentucky James  Breathitt 

Louisiana A.    C.    Lea 

Maine Edward    X.    Merrill 

Maryland Albert   G.   Tower 

Massachusetts 

Michigan      Leonard    Freeman 

Minnesota A.    L.    Hanson 

Mississippi Wesley    Crayton 

Missouri Charles   E.    Rendlen 

Montana Sam    Stephenson 

Xebraska Don    L.    Love 

Xevada M.    Badt 

New  Hampshire Hovey    E.    Slayton 

New    Jersey John   E.   Gill 

New    Mexico E.    A.    Cahoon 

New  York Michael  J.   Dady 

North    Carolina,.  .  .  M.    X.    Harshaw 


164  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS   OF  THE 

COMMITTEE   ON    CREDENTIALS.— Continued. 

North    Dakota A.  E.  Johnson 

Ohio Emmett   E.    Erskine 

Oklahoma G.   A.    Paul 

Oregon      Fred   S.   Bynon 

Pennsylvania     H.    H.    Gilkyson 

Rhode    Island George    B.    Waterhouse 

South     Carolina J-    H.    Goodwyn 

South    Dakota M.   G.    Carlisle 

Tennessee Xen  Hicks 

Texas     J-  E.  Elgin 

Utah Joseph    Howell 

Vermont W.   R.   Warner 

Virginia Joseph    L.    Crupper 

Washington Patrick    Halloran 

West  Virginia Charles  A.    Swcsringen 

Wisconsin Walter  S.  Goodland 

Wyoming Patrick    Sullivan 

Alaska L.    P-    Shackleford 

District    of    Columbia William     Calvin     Chase 

Hawaii John  T.   Moir 

Philippine    Islands T.    L.   Hartigan 

Porto    Rico Sosthenes    Behn 

COMMITTEE   ON    RULES    AND    ORDER    OF    BUSINESS. 

Alabama Shelby  S.  Pleasants 

Arizona F.  L.   Wright 

Arkansas H.   L.   Remmel 

California Marshall    Stimson 

Colorado Ezra   Elliott 

Connecticut Everett  J.    Lake 

Delaware R.  R.  Vale 

Florida W.    H.    Lucas 

Georgia J.    M.    Barnes 

Idaho D.    W.    Davis 

Illinois John  L.   Hamilton 

Indiana     Will  R.  Wood 

Iowa B.    F.    Carroll 

Kansas J.  S.  George 

Kentucky W.    D.    Cochran 

Louisiana Emile   Kuntz 

Maine H.   P.  Gardner 

Maryland Galen  L.  Tait 

Massachusetts 

Michigan      William    M.    Smith 

Minnesota O.   J.    Larson 

Mississippi W.   P.   Locker 

Missouri C.  A.  Denton 

Montana D.   J.    Charles 

Nebraska C.  A.  Luce 

Nevada Albert  Karge 

New  Hampshire Lyford  A.  Merrow 

New    Jersey James  G.    Blauvelt 

New    Mexico Gregory  Page 

New  York.  .  .  Ezra   P.    Prentice 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  165 

COMMITTEE   ON    RULES    AND    ORDER    OF   BUSINESS.— Continued. 

North    Carolina W.     S.    O'B.     Robinson 

North    Dakota Emil  Scow 

Ohio Sherman   H.    Eagle 

Oklahoma L.    S.    Skelton 

Oregon      J.   N.  Smith 

Pennsylvania     William   H.    Coletnan 

Rhode    Island Herbert  W.   Rice 

South     Carolina W.    T.    Andrews 

South    Dakota C.    L.    Dotson 

Tennessee W.   D.   Howser 

Texas     Phil    E.    Baer 

Utah Jacob  Johnson 

Vermont John  L.   Lewis 

Virginia R.   H.  Angell 

Washington E.    B.   Hubbard 

West  Virginia William    Seymour    Edwards 

Wisconsin Henry    F.    Cochems 

Wyoming C.    D.    Clark 

Alaska W.   H.   Hoggatt 

District    of    Columbia Aaron   Bradshaw 

Hawaii W.    F.    Frear 

Philippine    Islands J.    M.    Switzer 

Porto   Rico Mateo   Fajardo 

COMMITTEE    ON    RESOLUTIONS. 

Alabama J.   J.    Curtis 

Arizona James  T.   Williams,  Jr. 

Arkansas H.    H.    Myers 

California Chester   H.    Rowell 

Colorado A.  M.  Stevenson 

Connecticut Charles    Hopkins    Clark 

Delaware Henry    A.    Du    Pont 

Florida Joseph    E.    Lee 

Georgia H.   L.   Johnson 

Idaho F.    J.    Hagenbarth 

Illinois William    F.    Bundy 

Indiana     Charles  W.  Fairbanks 

Iowa George   D.    Perkins 

Kansas Ansel   R.  Clark 

Kentucky W.    O.    Bradley 

Louisiana H.   C.   Warmoth 

Maine Aretas    E.    Stearns 

Maryland VV.    T.    Warburton 

Massachusetts 

Michigan      William   Judson 

Minnesota Jacob   F.  Jacobson 

Mississippi L.    K.   Atwood 

Missouri Herbert   S.    Hadley 

Montana George   T.    Baggs 

Nebraska E.   L.   King 

Nevada H.   V.   Moorehouse 

New  Hampshire Fernando  W.   Hartford 

New    Jersey George  L.   Record 

New    Mexico H.    O.   Burcun 


166  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 

COMMITTEE     ON     RESOLUTIONS.— Continued. 

New  York William   Barnes,  Jr. 

North   Carolina Cyrus    Thompson 

North    Dakota P.    O.   Thorson 

Ohio Karl  T.   Webber 

Oklahoma J.    R.   Eckles 

Oregon      D.   D.   Hail 

Pennsylvania     William  Draper   Lewis 

Rhode     Island Henry   F.   Lippitt 

South     Carolina E.    F.    Cochran 

South    Dakota Alan   Bogue,  Jr. 

Tennessee H.    Clay    Evans 

Texas     W.    M.    McDonald 

Utah George    Sutherland 

Vermont J.    L.    Southwick 

Virginia D.   Lawrence   Groner 

Washington C.   C.   Gase 

West  Virginia Samuel    B.    Montgomery 

Wisconsin Walter   C.    Owen 

Wyoming William  H.  Huntley 

Alaska W.   H.   Hoggatt 

District    of    Columbia William   Calvin   Chase 

Hawaii George   F.   Renton 

Philippine    Islands John  M.   Switzer 

Porto   Rico Mateo   Fajardo 


ADJOURNMENT. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  move  that  the  Conven- 
tion adjourn  until  12  o'clock  to-morrow. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to;  and  (at  5  o'clock  and  47  minutes  p.  m.) 
the  Convention  adjourned  until  to-morrow,  Thursday,  June  20,  1912,  at  12 
o'clock  meridian. 


THIRD  DAY 


CONVENTION  HALL 

THE  COLISEUM, 

CHICAGO,    ILL.,   JUNE  20,   1912. 
The  Convention  met  at  12  o'clock  m. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  proceedings  of  this  day  will  be 
opened  with  prayer  by  the  Very  Reverend  Dean  Walter  T.  Summer,  D.D. 

PRAYER  OF  THE  VERY  REVEREND  DEAN  WALTER  T. 

SUMNER,  D.D. 

The  Very  Reverend  Walter  T.  Summer,  D.D.,  Dean  of  Cathedral 
SS.  Peter  and  Paul,  Chicago,  Illinois,  offered  the  following  prayer: 

Almighty  God,  look  down,  we  beseech  Thee,  and  bless  this  Con- 
vention here  assembled.  Grant  unto  its  members  self-restraint,  cool 
judgment,  and  all  wisdom,  that  their  deliberations  may  insure  to  the 
nation  civic  righteousness,  industrial  peace,  and  social  justice;  that  all 
men  may  have  an  abundance  of  life,  and  the  mind  to  serve  Thee  in 
Godly  living,  maintaining  the  sanctity  of  the  home  and  the  integrity  of 
the  nation.  Amen. 

COMMITTEE  ON  CREDENTIALS. 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of 
the  Convention :  The  Committee  on  Credentials  is  not  ready  to  report, 
and  as  no  business  is  in  order  until  that  Committee  shall  have  reported,  I 
move  that  the  Convention  take  a  recess  until  4  o'clock  this  afternoon. 

MR.  JOHN  FRANKLIN  FORT,  of  New  Jersey. — I  second  the  motion. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  is  on  agreeing  to  the  mo- 
tion of  the  gentleman  from  Indiana  that  the  Convention  take  a  recess 
until  4  o'clock  this  afternoon. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to;  and  (at  12  o'clock  and  5  minutes  p.  m.) 
the  Convention  took  a  recess  until  4  o'clock  p.  m. 

AFTERNOON  SESSION. 
At  the  expiration  of  the  recess  the  Convention  reassembled. 

COMMITTEE  ON  CREDENTIALS. 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman,  inasmuch  as  the 
Committee  on  Credentials  is  not  yet  ready  to  report,  and  inasmuch  as  no 
business  is  in  order  until  that  Committee  shall  have  reported,  I  move  that 
the  Convention  adjourn  until  11  o'clock  to-morrow. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to;  and  (at  4  o'clock  and  5  minutes  p.  m.) 
the  Convention  adjourned  until  to-morrow,  Thursday,  June  21,  1912,  at 
11  o'clock  a.  m. 

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FOURTH  DAY 


CONVENTION  HALL 

THE    COLISEUM, 

CHICAGO,   ILL.,  JUNE  21,   1912. 
The  Convention  met  at  11  o'clock  a.  m. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Prayer  will  be  offered  by  the  Rev.  John 
Balcom  Shaw,  D.D. 

PRAYER  OF  REV.  JOHN  BALCOM  SHAW,  D.D. 

Rev.  John  Balcom  Shaw,  D.D.,  pastor  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church,  Chicago,  Illinois,  offered  the  following  prayer : 

O  God  most  mighty,  God  most  merciful,  the  Supreme  and  Sovereign 
ruler  of  the  universe,  who  holdest  sway  alike  over  the  lives  of  men  and 
the  affairs  of  nations,  decreeing  abiding  success  unto  those  only  who 
submit  to  Thy  control  and  do  Thy  will,  we  acknowledge  and  adore  Thee 
as  the  King  eternal,  immortal,  invisible,  the  only  wise  God,  Whose  favor 
is  life  and  whose  loving  kindness  is  better  than  life ;  we  bless  Thee  for 
Thy  signal  favor  in  times  past  to  this  our  nation ;  and  profoundly  con- 
scious of  our  dependence  upon  Thee,  we  reverently  invoke  upon  the  Re- 
public Thy  gracious  presence  and  benediction.  As  here  gathered  in  na- 
tional assembly  we,  the  representatives  of  a  historic  and  honorable  organ- 
ization, the  deputies  of  the  people  and  the  servants  of  the  King  of  kings, 
shall  seek  to  conserve  the  future  good  of  our  country  and  plan  for  her 
advancing  honor  and  prosperity,  do  Thou  so  guide  our  deliberations  and 
shape  our  decisions,  so  surcharge  this  Convention  with  Thy  divine  peace, 
son  convey  to  us  the  knowledge  of  Thy  far-seeing,  all-wise  will,  and  give 
us  so  fully  of  Thy  holy  spirit,  the  wisdom  and  understanding  of  concord 
and  brotherhood,  of  unity,  purity  and  equity,  that  loyal  to  Thy  standards, 
honoring  Thy  name,  and  desirous  of  Thy  glory,  we  may  do  in  thy  pres- 
ence the  things  which  please  Thee  and  for  which  in  time  to  come  we  may 
claim  the  seal  of  Thine  approval  and  the  furtherance  of  Thy  Almighty 
help.  Grant  this  with  the  remission  and  absolution  of  all  our  sins,  na- 
tional and  personal,  through  Jesus  Christ,  Thine  only  begotten  Son  and 
our  only  Saviour,  to  Whom,  with  Thee  and  the  Holy  Ghost,  one  God, 
blessed  forevermore,  be  honor  and  glory,  majesty  and  dominion,  world 
without  end.  Amen. 

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FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  169 

REPORTS  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  CREDENTIALS. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  business  in  order  is  the  presentation 
of  reports  from  the  Committee  on  Credentials. 

NINTH    ALABAMA    DISTRICT. 

MR.  W.  T.  DOVELL,  of  Washington. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  am  directed  by 
your  Committee  on  Credentials  to  submit  a  report  relative  to  the  contest 
in  the  Ninth  Congressional  District  of  Alabama. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Secretary  will  read  the  report  of 
the  Committee  on  Credentials. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows  : 

"The  Committee  on  Credentials  respectfully  presents  to  the  Conven- 
tion this  report  and  recommends  the  seating  of  J.  Rivers  Carter,  of  Jeffer- 
son County;  James  B.  Sloane,  of  Blunt  County,  as  delegates  from  the 
Ninth  Congressional  District  of  Alabama,  and  Thomas  J.  Kennamer  and 
J.  O.  Diffay,  both  of  Jefferson  County,  State  of  Alabama,  Ninth  Congres- 
sional District,  as  alternates  from  the  said  district. 

"Your  Committee  begs  leave  to  state  that  it  heard  a  full  presentation 
of  the  evidence  and  exhaustive  arguments  of  those  representing  the  dele- 
gates and  alternates  whose  seating  we  recommend  as  well  as  the  adver- 
sary parties,  at  the  close  of  which  your  Committee  finds  the  following 
facts : 

"On  February  15,  1912,  thirty  persons,  claiming  to  be  members  of 
the  managing  or  executive  committee  of  the  Ninth  Congressional  District, 
met  for  the  purpose  of  issuing  a  call  for  a  district  convention.  The  full 
quota  of  the  Committee  was  twenty-nine.  Of  these  thirty  persons  so  as- 
sembled the  right  of  twenty-three  to  sit  upon  the  Committee  is  not  ques- 
tioned. The  right  of  seven  to  sit  upon  that  Committee  was  denied. 

"When  the  Committee  met  one  of  those,  Mr.  O.  R.  Hundley,  whose 
right  to  a  seat  upon  the  Committee  was  disputed,  attempted  to  make  a 
motion  whereupon  a  member  whose  right  to  sit  is  not  questioned,  chal- 
lenged the  right  of  Hundley  to  participate  in  the  deliberations  of  the 
Committee.  The  Chairman  of  the  Committee  being  absent,  the  Secretary 
thereof  attempted  to  preside  in  his  place,  and  denied  the  right  of  any 
member  to  question  the  right  of  said  Hundley  to  participate  and  refused 
to  hear  any  objection  to  the  roll  as  prepared  by  himself. 

"Thereupon,  no  chairman  having  been  chosen,  Mr.  A.  C.  Birch  was 
placed  in  nomination.  The  individual  who  had  usurped  the  chair  re- 
fused to  recognize  the  nomination ;  thereupon  the  member  of  the  commit- 
tee who  had  named  Mr.  Birch  presented  to  the  meeting  the  question  of 
the  election  of  Mr.  Birch.  Fifteen  of  those  present  voted  for  Mr.  Birch. 
The  remaining  fifteen,  only  fourteen  of  whom  could  possibly  have  been 
members  of  the  committee,  refused  to  recognize  Mr.  Birch,  and  there- 


170  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF  THE 

upon  the  two  parties  took  different  positions  in  the  hall  and  held  two 
meetings.  The  meeting  presided  over  by  Mr.  Birch  proceeded  in  a  regu- 
lar way  to  call  a  district  convention  for  the  purpose  of  electing  delegates 
and  alternates  to  the  National  Convention,  and  it  is  this  Convention  so 
presided  over  by  Mr.  Birch  which  sends  the  delegation  now  holding  their 
seats  in  this  Convention  under  the  approval  of  the  National  Committee. 
The  call  issued  by  this  district  convention  being  fundamental  of  subse- 
quent proceedings,  and  it  appearing  that  the  regularity  of  the  call  de- 
pended upon  the  right  of  the  different  individuals  to  a  seat  upon  the 
district  committee,  careful  inquiry  was  made  of  this  committee  into  the 
credentials  of  each  one  of  the  seven  whose  right  to  a  seat  upon  the  com- 
mittee was  disputed.  Of  those  participating  in  the  Birch  or  Taft  com- 
mittee meeting,  the  right  of  two  is  questioned,  to  wit :  \V.  M.  Latham 
and  R.  H.  Harding.  It  was  asserted  that  not  W.  M.  Latham  but  a  James 
Latham,  his  brother,  was  the  regularly  elected  member  of  the  committee. 
The  evidence,  however,  was  clear  and  vastly  preponderating  that  W.  M. 
Latham  had  not  only  been  elected  to  the  committee  but  had  repeatedly 
participated  in  person  and  by  proxy  at  meetings  thereof,  and  had  repeat- 
edly received  notices  from  the  chairman  of  its  meetings.  It  was  further 
made  to  appear  that  representatives  of  the  Roosevelt  adherents  had  so- 
licited his  proxy  for  the  committee  meeting  of  February  15,  1912.  As  to 
R.  H.  Harding,  it  was  claimed  that  he  had  resigned  from  the  committee. 
The  proof  shows  without  question  that  in  anticipation  of  his  probable 
absence  upon  the  day  of  the  committee  meeting  he  had  prepared  a  resigna- 
tion which  he  delivered  to  one  Clayton  to  be  held  by  him  and  delivered  to 
the  committee  only  in  the  event  that  he,  Harding,  should  be  absent  from 
the  committee  meeting.  Prior  to  the  day  of  the  committee  meeting,  and 
when  it  became  evident  that  he  would  be  able  to  be  present  thereat, 
Harding  requested  Clayton  to  return  to  him  the  resignation  which  he  had 
written  out.  Clayton,  however,  refused  to  do  so,  and  delivered  the  same 
to  the  chairman  of  the  committee,  who  thereupon  appointed  another  indi- 
vidual in  place  of  said  Harding.  This  was  done  before  the  committee 
to  which  the  resignation  was  addressed  had  met,  and  the  resignation  was 
recalled  before  the  committee  had  acted  upon  it.  This  committee,  there- 
fore, finds  as  a  matter  of  fact  and  as  a  conclusion  of  law  that  said  resig- 
nation having  been  recalled  before  it  was  accepted  by  the  committee,  never 
took  effect,  and  therefore,  upon  February  15,  1912,  Harding  was  unques- 
tionably entitled  to  act  as  a  member  of  the  district  committee. 

"These  two  members,  Latham  and  Harding,  gave  to  the  Birch  or  Taft 
committee  meeting  a  clear  majority  of  the  entire  committee. 

"Of  those  who  participated  in  the  Roosevelt  committee  the  right  of 
five  to  sit  as  members  of  the  committee  is  challenged,  to  wit: 

O.  R.  Hundley,  J.  F.  Shaddick, 

J.  W.  Davidson,  B.  S.  Culwell, 

J.  W.  Clayton. 


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"As  to  Clayton,  it  was  shown  by  numerous  and  unquestioned  affi- 
davits that  he  was  at  said  time  and  is  now  a  non-resident  of  the  Ninth 
District,  and  we  find,  therefore,  that  he  lost  his  membership  upon  the 
committee  upon  his  removal  from  the  district.  Culwell  is  the  individual 
who  had  been  substituted -for  Harding,  and  as  the  resignation  of  Harding 
had  not  been  accepted  by  the  committee,  and  Harding  himself  was  pres- 
ent, it  follows  that  Culwell  was  not  entitled  to  membership. 

"The  right  of  the  remaining  three,  Hundley,  Davidson  and  Shaddick, 
to  sit  upon  the  committee  is  predicated  upon  a  pretended  appointment  by 
the  absent  chairman  of  the  committee,  and  the  right  to  make  such  appoint- 
ment is  based  upon  a  pretended  resolution  claimed  to  have  been  passed  at 
the  district  convention  in  1910,  authorizing  the  chairman  of  the  committee 
to  fill  vacancies.  The  contestants  have  been  unable  to  produce  any  min- 
utes showing  the  adoption  of  such  a  resolution.  Your  committee  had 
before  it  affidavits  of  twelve  reputable  citizens  who  were  members  of 
the  convention  that  no  such  resolution  was  ever  adopted.  The  resolution 
itself  appears  written  in  pencil  upon  one  side  of  a  small  sheet  of  paper 
in  the  handwriting  of  the  secretary  of  the  committee,  who  is  the  same 
individual  who  attempted  to  preside  at  the  meeting  of  February  15,  1912. 
That  portion  of  the  resolution  which  pretends  to  give  to  the  chairman  the 
authority  to  fill  vacancies,  gives  evidence  of  having  been  written  at  a 
different  time  and  with  a  different  pencil  than  that  used  in  writing  the 
body  of  the  resolution,  and  your  committee  finds  that  there  is  plain  evi- 
dence of  the  alteration  of  said  resolution,  and  that  no  resolution  giving 
to  the  chairman  authority  to  fill  vacancies  upon  the  committee  was  ever 
passed,  as  was  claimed,  by  the  district  convention  of  1910.  Your  com- 
mittee, therefore,  finds  that  upon  February  15,  1912,  there  were  fifteen 
legal  members  of  the  committee  participating  in  the  Birch  or  Taft  meet- 
ing and  ten  legally  accredited  members  of  the  committee  participating  in 
the  Roosevelt  meeting  of  the  committee. 

"The  fifteen  members  of  the  committee  so  presided  over  by  Mr.  Birch 
proceeded  in  a  regular  and  legal  manner  to  call  a  district  convention,  to  be 
held  at  Birmingham.  Alabama,  on  March  16,  1912,  for  the  election  of  dele- 
gates and  alternates  to  this  Convention.  Due  notice  was  given,  and  all 
steps  taken  in  full  compliance  with  the  law  and  the  requirements  of  the 
National  Committee.  Four  counties  in  the  district  in  response  to  this 
call  sent  delegates  to  the  convention,  which  was  held  at  the  time  and 
place  fixed,  at  Birmingham,  and  the  delegates  now  seated  were  elected  at 
that  convention.  These  county  organizations  which  have  been  recognized 
and  unchallenged  for  twelve  years  selected  not  only  delegates  to  the  dis- 
trict convention  of  the  Ninth  District,  but  selected  in  the  same  manner 
delegates  to  a  State  Convention,  which  named  the  delegates-at-large  from 
the  State  of  Alabama  to  this  National  Convention.  A  contest  was  filed 
before  the  National  Committee  against  the  delegates-at-large  so  selected 


172  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

as  aforesaid.  The  National  Committee  having  heard  the  same,  voted 
unanimously  not  to  support  said  contest,  thus  recognizing  the  authority 
of  the  county  organizations  of  the  Ninth  District  with  regard  to  their 
action  in  selecting  delegates  to  the  State  Convention.  No  appeal  from 
that  finding  of  the  National  Committee  has  been  presented  to  this  com- 
mittee. We  accept  this,  therefore,  as  a  recognition  of  the  validity  of  the 
Republican  organizations  in  counties  of  the  Ninth  District. 

"We  therefore  find  that  J.  Rivers  Carter,  of  Jefferson  County;  James 
B.  Sloan,  of  Blunt  County,  are  the  regularly  and  duly  elected  delegates 
from  the  Ninth  Congressional  District  of  Alabama,  and  Thomas  J.  Ken- 
namer  and  J.  O.  Diffay,  both  of  Jefferson  County,  are  the  regularly  and 
duly  elected  alternates  to  this  Convention  from  the  Ninth  Congressional 
District  of  Alabama." 

MR.  HERBERT  S.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri,  obtained  the  floor. 

MR.  R.  R.  McCoRMiCK,  of  Illinois. — Mr.  Chairman 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  has  recognized  the  gentleman 
from  Missouri  (Mr.  Hadley). 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — I  yield  to  Mr.  McCormick,  of  the  State  of 
Illinois,  a  member  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  who  wishes  to  submit 
a  minority  report  on  the  contest  in  the  Ninth  District  of  Alabama. 

MR.  R.  R.  MCCORMICK,  of  Illinois. — Mr.  Chairman,  within  a  few 
moments  this  report  of  the  majority  was  sprung  upon  the  minority  mem- 
bers of  the  Committee.  We  requested  an  opportunity  to  prepare  a  minor- 
ity report.  This  opportunity  was  denied  to  us,  and  we  were  merely  given 
an  opportunity  to  register  our  dissent.  I  hold  here  the  dissent  of  the 
minority  members,  and  I  state  that  we  will  expect  ample  opportunity  at  a 
future  tim.e  to  present  the  facts  of  this  case. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  will  say  to  the  Convention 
that  while  strictly  speaking  there  can  be  no  such  thing  as  a  minority  re- 
port, an  expression  of  the  views  of  the  minority  may  always,  by  permis- 
sion of  a  deliberative  body,  be  presented  and  received.  The  Chair  will 
assume  such  permission  to  be  given  by  this  Convention  unless  overruled, 
and  accordingly  the  views  of  the  minority  of  the  Committee  on  Creden- 
tials, presented  by  the  gentleman  from  Illinois  (Mr.  McCormick)  will  now 
be  read  for  the  information  of  this  Convention. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 

"We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of 
the  National  Republican  Committee,  hereby  submit  the  following  report : 

"(1)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  members  of  the 
Committee  in  sitting  upon  and  participating  in  the  actions  of  the  Com- 
mittee :  Mr.  J.  C.  Adams,  of  Arizona ;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas, 
and  Mr.  W.  T.  Dovell,  of  Washington,  for  the  reason  that  each  of  these 
men  was  elected  by  entire  delegations  whose  seats  are  contested. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  173 

"(2)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  men:  Mr.  J.  C 
Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas,  and  Mr.  W.  T.  Dovell, 
of  Washington,  from  participating  in  and  voting  upon  the  questions  in 
any  of  the  contests  on  the  ground  that  they  are  in  effect  sitting  as  judges 
in  their  own  cases. 

"(3)  We  protest  against  Mr.  Thomas  H.  Devine,  of  Colorado;  Mr. 
Fred  W.  Estabrook,  of  New  Hampshire;  Mr.  Henry  Blun,  Jr.,  of  Georgia; 
Mr.  L.  B.  Moseley,  of  Mississippi,  and  Mr.  L.  P.  Shackleford,  of  Alaska, 
sitting  as  members  of  this  Committee,  for  the  reason  that  they  were 
members  of  the  National  Committee  and  participated  in  its  deliberations 
and  actions. 

"(4)  We  find  that  the  following  persons  reported  upon  by  the  ma 
jority  of  members  of  this  Committee  are  not  entitled  to  seats  in  this  Con^ 
vention  and  should  not  be  placed  upon  its  permanent  roll : 

ALABAMA. — Ninth  Distrct. 

DELEGATES.  ALTERNATES. 

James  B.  Sloan  Thomas  J.  Kennamer 

J.  Rivers  Carter  J.  O.  Diffay 

"(5)  And  we  further  report  that  in  place  of  the  said  persons  the 
following  persons  were  duly  elected  and  are  legally  entitled  to  seats  in 
this  Convention  and  should  be  seated  and  accredited  to  their  respective 
States  and  Districts,  as  follows: 

ALABAMA. — Ninth  Distrct. 

DELEGATES. 

Judge  Oscar  R.  Hundley  George  R.  Lewis 

"Respectfully  submitted, 

JOHN  J.  SULLIVAN,  Ohio. 
JOHN  BOYD  Avis. 
LEX  N.  MITCHELL,  Pennsylvania. 
HUGH  T.  HALBERT,  Minnesota. 

"Illinois  on  Alabama  contest,  Robert  R.  McCormick;  on  Arizona  con- 
test, proxy  for  R.  R.  McCormick. 

W.  S.  LAUDER,  North  Dakota. 
J.  M.  LANDON,  Kansas. 
CHARLES  H.  COWLES,  North  Carolina. 
FRANCIS  J.  HENEY,  California. 
HARRY  SHAW  (W.  P.  H.),  W.  Va.  (S.  X.  Way). 
H.  E.  SACKETT,  Nebraska. 
J.  M.  LIBBY,  Maine. 
DAN  NORTON,  Oklahoma. 
JESSE  A.  TOLERTON,  Missouri." 

MR.  R.  R.  MCCORMICK,  of  Illinois. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  move  that  the 
report  of  the  minority  be  substituted  for  the  report  of  the  majority. 


174  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

MR.  HUGH  T.  HALBERT,  of  Minnesota. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  second  that 
motion. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  Missouri  (Mr. 
Hadley)  has  the  floor. 

MR.  HERBERT  S.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — I  move  that  the  minority  re- 
port of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  be  substituted  for  the  majority 
report;  and  in  that  connection,  Mr.  Chairman,  I  request  that  unanimous 
consent  may  be  given  to  Mr.  McCormick,  the  representatives  of  the  minor- 
ity members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  to  read  a  brief  statement 
in  support  of  the  minority  report,  as  the  representative  of  the  majority 
members  of  the  Committee  was  permitted  to  read  a  statement  in  support 
of  the  majority  report.  This  has  been  prepared,  and  includes  only  three 
typewritten  pages. 

MR.  R.  J.  WALKER,  of  Virginia. — I  move  that  the  motion  be  laid  on 
the  table. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Will  the  gentleman  give  his  name  to  the 
Secretary. 

MR.  HERBERT  S.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — I  make  the  point  of  order  that 
the  motion  is  not  in  order,  because  unanimous  consent  has  been  given  to 
make  the  statement. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  is  of  the  opinion  that  the 
motion  of  the  gentleman  from  Missouri  (Mr.  Hadley)  to  substitute  the 
views  of  the  minority  for  the  majority  report  is  regularly  before  the 
Convention ;  and  that  the  request  for  unanimous  consent  for  the  reading 
of  the  statement  by  the  gentleman  from  Illinois  (Mr.  McCormick)  must 
first  be  passed  upon  by  the  Convention,  and  that  the  motion  of  the  gentle- 
man whose  name  the  Chair  has  not  yet  learned,  to  lay  upon  the  table 
the  motion  of  the  gentleman  from  Missouri,  will  then  be  in  order.  That 
is  to  say,  if  the  unanimous  consent  is  given,  the  statement  will  be  read  by 
Mr.  McCormick,  before  the  motion  to  lay  on  the  table  is  put. 

Unanimous  consent  is  asked  for  the  reading  of  a  statement  by  the 
gentleman  from  Illinois  (Mr.  McCormick).  Is  there  objection?  The 
Chair  hears  none.  Unanimous  consent  is  given. 

MR.  R.  R.  MCCORMICK,  of  Illinois. — I  will  explain  to  the  delegates, 
what  is  known  to  the  Chairman,  that  immediately  before  the  calling  of 
this  Convention  to  order  I  was  present  here  and  not  in  the  committee 
room.  I  will  ask  the  Secretary  to  read  the  statement. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 
"To    the    Chairman    of    the    Republican    National    Convention,    Chicago, 

Illinois. 
GENTLEMEN  : — 

"The  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  beg 
leave  to  dissent  from  the  report  of  the  majority  of  the  members  of  this 


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Committee,  and  report  in  lieu  thereof  the  following  as  to  the  delegates 
and  alternates  from  the  Ninth  Congressional  District  of  Alabama: 

"We  report  that  Oscar  R.  Hundley  and  G.  R.  Lewis,  delegates,  and 
W.  H.  Lewis  and  P.  H.  Clark,  alternates,  are  entitled  to  seats  in  this 
Convention,  and  that  J.  R.  Carter  and  J.  B.  Sloan,  who  have  been  for- 
mally seated  as  delegates,  and  T.  J.  Kennemer  and  J.  O.  Diffay,  who  have 
also  been  seated  as  alternate  delegates  in  this  Convention  from  said  Ninth 
Congressional  District  of  Alabama,  by  the  action  of  the  National  Com- 
mittee are  not  entitled  to  seats  in  this  Convention. 

"We  base  our  reasons  for  this  report  upon  the  following  facts,  amply 
sustained  by  the  official  records,  and  ample  sworn  testimony  of  witnesses 
presented  before  this  Committee : 

"The  said  Oscar  R.  Hundley  and  G.  R.  Lewis  and  W.  H.  Lewis  and 
P.  H.  Clark  were  elected  as  delegates  and  alternates  by  a  convention  held 
on  a  call  made  by  the  regular  Republican  District  Committee  of  the  Ninth 
Congressional  District  of  Alabama,  the  regularity  of  which  committee 
has  not  been  questioned  since  its  election  by  the  Republican  District  Con- 
vention of  said  Ninth  District  on  the  eleventh  day  of  July,  Nineteen  Hun- 
dred and  Ten,  until  the  bolt  therefrom  by  a  minority  of  said  committee. 

"Said  District  Committee  held  a  regular  session  in  the  city  of  Bir- 
mingham on  the  15th  day  of  February,  1912,  in  which  the  delegates  for- 
mally seated  by  this  Convention  were  present  in  person  and  participated. 
At  that  meeting  of  said  committee,  the  total  membership  of  which  was  29, 
and  including  the  chairman  and  secretary,  31  members  in  all,  there  were 
present  answering  to  the  roll  call  25  members  in  person  and  2  by  proxy, 
making  28  members  in  all.  The.  delegates  formally  seated  in  this  conven- 
tion by  the  National  Committee  were  elected  by  a  convention  called  by  a 
bolting  minority  of  said  committee,  composed  of  12  members  thereof,  who 
left  the  committee  composed  of  the  remaining  18  members,  and  held  a 
separate  convention  in  the  rear  of  the  same  hall. 

"The  18  remaining  members  of  the  committee  and  a  majority  and 
quorum  thereof,  called  a  convention,  at  which  were  elected  the  aforesaid 
delegates  and  alternates,  to  wit :  Oscar  R.  Hundley,  G.  R.  Lewis  and  W. 
H.  Lewis  and  P.  H.  Clark.  The  delegates  and  alternates  heretofore  given 
seats  in  this  convention  and  who  were  elected  as  the  result  of  the  action 
of  the  said  bolting  minority  of  said  District  Committee,  are  illegal  and 
not  entitled  to  sit  in  this  Convention  for  the  following  reasons : 

"1.  At  the  time  of  their  bolt  they  did  not  have  a  majority  or  quorum 
of  the  committee  upon  which  to  base  any  legal  or  regular  action. 

"2.  They  endeavored  after  the  bolt  to  secure  a  majority  of  the  com- 
mittee by  adding  thereto  the  name  of  one  man,  W.  M.  Latham,  who,  it 
was  shown  by  the  records  of  said  committee,  at  every  meeting  since  it 
was  formed  in  1910,  and  by  the  records  of  the  District  Convention,  when 


176  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

the  committee  was  formed  in  1910,  to  have  never  been  a  member  of  said 
committee,  and  never  to  have  participated  therein. 

"3.  They  further  endeavored  to  secure  a  quorum  of  said  committee, 
after  their  said  bolt,  by  adding  thereto  the  name  of  one  Harvey  Hardin, 
who  was  shown  to  have  resigned  from  said  committee  on  the  9th  day  of 
February,  1912,  and  whose  place  was  filled  by  the  chairman  of  said  com- 
mittee on  the  14th  day  of  February,  1912;  said  action  of  said  chairman 
being  duly  reported  to  said  committee  and  concurred  in  by  said  committee. 
The  authority  of  the  chairman  for  making  all  appointments  in  the  com- 
mittee to  fill  vacancies  was  amply  and  incontrovertibly  sustained  by  the 
records  of  the  District  Convention  of  July  11,  1910,  and  by  the  action  of 
the  committee  on  June  22,  1911.  Even  by  these  methods  they  failed  to  get 
a  majority  of  the  committee,  upon  which  to  base  their  bolt. 

"4.  The  convention  claimed  to  have  been  held  by  the  bolting  minority 
of  the  committee  was  held  without  the  notice  required  by  the  rules  of  the 
National  Committee,  when  it  called  this  Convention. 

"Based  upon  these  facts,  we  offer  as  a  substitute  for  the  majority 
report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  the  following  resolution : 

"Resolved,  That  Oscar  R.  Hundley  and  G.  R.  Lewis,  delegates,  and 
W.  H.  Lewis  and  P.  H.  Clark,  alternates,  are  entitled  to  their  seats  upon 
the  floor  of  this  Convention." 

MR.  W.  T.  DOVELL,  of  Washington. — I  desire  to  ask  unanimous  con- 
sent to  make  a  statement  for  not  to  exceed  five  minutes,  before  the  ques- 
tion is  put  on  the  motion  to  lay  on  the  table. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  Washington  asks 
unanimous  consent  to  make  a  statement,  not  exceeding  five  minutes  in 
length,  in  response'  to  the  statement  just  read  by  the  gentleman  from 
Illinois.  Is  there  objection?  The  Chair  hears  none,  and  consent  is  given. 

MR.  DOVELL,  of  Washington. — This  is  the  statement  I  desire  to  make 
in  behalf  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials : 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention  will  appreciate  the  unfortunate  treat- 
ment which  has  been  accorded  the  gentleman  from  Illinois  (Mr.  McCor- 
mick)  who  represents  the  minority.  He  was  deprived  of  an  opportunity 
of  preparing  a  minority  report,  and  yet  had  time  to  prepare  the  statement 
which  he  has  just  presented.  (Applause.) 

Your  Committee  on  Credentials,  including  myself,  have  been  in  ses- 
sion continuously,  without  intermission  to  secure  either  food  or  sleep, 
since  9  o'clock  yesterday  morning.  It  is  only  fair  to  say  that  there  are 
present  in  the  meeting  of  the  Committee  men  who,  to  say  the  least,  are 
not  assisting  the  Committee  in  concluding  its  deliberations. 

It  would  be  impossible,  gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  for  me  to  dis- 
cuss, had  I  the  floor  for  that  purpose,  the  facts  concerning  the  case  from 
Alabama.  Let  me  merely  say  to  you  that  the  report  which  I  presented  to 
you  was  supported  by  a  vote  of  34  to  13,  and  amongst  those  who  voted  for 


HON'.    DAVID    \V.    Mt'LVANK.   of   Kans 
Member  of   Committee   on   Arrangements 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  177 

the  report  of  the  majority  were  the  representative  upon  that  committee 
from  the  State  of  Wisconsin  and  the  representative  from  the  State  of 
Idaho.  (Applause.) 

The  whole  question  was  based  upon  a  conclusion  as  to  whether  or 
not  a  resolution,  under  which,  in  a  certain  district,  the  chairman  claimed 
the  right  to  fill  vacancies  upon  his  committee,  was  valid  or  was  forged; 
and  to  say  the  least  concerning  this  purported  resolution,  which  was 
presented  to  the  Committee,  written  in  lead  pencil  upon  one  side  of  a 
sheet  of  paper,  it  was  the  conclusion  of  a  majority  of  the  members  of  that 
Committee  that  the  resolution  had  been  penciled  at  two  different  times, 
with  two  different  pencils ;  and  I  desire  to  read  to  you  the  statement  which 
was  made  by  the  gentleman  from  Idaho  (Mr.  St.  Clair)  in  explanation  of 
his  vote.  He  said: 

"I  regard  the  fact  that  the  County  Chairman  did  not  know  that 
he  had  authority  to  fill  vacancies  and  that  that  split  division  confirmed 
the  appointment  and  the  fact  of  there  being  a  period  before  the  word 
'and'  at  the  end  of  that  notation  'and  to  fill  vacancies  that  may  occur,' 
makes  me  believe  that  it  is  doubtful  as  to  whether  that  was  not  added 
afterwards,  and,  in  view  of  the  fact  that  they  did  not  know  that  they 
had  the  authority  and  confirmed  it,  I  take  that  position  and  therefore 
vote  no." 

MR.  R.  R.  McCoRMiCK,  of  Illinois. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  rise  to  a  ques- 
tion of  personal  privilege. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  will  state  the  question  of 
privilege. 

MR.  McCoRMiCK,  of  Illinois. — I  ask  to  be  permitted  to  explain  to  this 
Convention  that  I  had  been  with  the  Chairman  of  this  Convention,  trying 
to  ascertain  the  procedure,  and  was  not  present  in  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials, and  knew  nothing  about  the  minority  report.  I  was  not  given 
permission  to  make  that  explanation  before  reading  the  minority  report 
which  was  handed  to  me.  That  is  all. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  will  state  that  the  gentleman 
from  Virginia  (Mr.  Robert  J.  Walker)  has  withdrawn  for  the  present  his 
motion  to  lay  upon  the  table,  at  the  request  of  the  Virginia  delegation,  in 
order  to  give  to  the  gentleman  from  Missouri  (Governor  Hadley)  an  op- 
portunity to  make  a  motion,  notice  of  which  motion  had  already  been 
given  to  the  Chair.  The  Chair  now  recognizes  the  gentleman  from  Mis- 
souri (Mr.  Hadley). 

MR.  HERBERT  S.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — Mr.  Chairman,  the  resolution 
which  I  now  offer  relates  to  the  question  as  to  who  shall  vote  upon  the 
minority  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials.  It  is  as  follows : 

"Resolved,  That  in  the  vote  upon  the  adoption  of  the  minority 
report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  the  delegates  named  in  the 
list  attached  hereto,  and  whose  names  are  upon  the  temporary  roll  of 


178  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

this  Convention,  and  whose  seats  are  contested,  shall  not  vote  upon 

said  report  until  the  right  of  any  delegate  named  therein  to  a  seat 

in  this  Convention  has  been  determined  in  his  favor  by  a  majority  of 

the  delegates  entitled  to  vote  upon  said  question,  under  the  terms  of 

this  resolution."     (Applause.) 

I  will  state  that  the  list  to  which  I  refer  is  the  list  in  the  Hands  of 
the  Secretary,  of  the  72  delegates  whose  seats  were  protested  by  fourteen 
members  of  the  National  Committee,  and  whose  right  to  vote  has  previ- 
ously furnished  a  subject-matter  of  controversy  in  the  Convention. 

MR.  WADSWORTH,  of  New  York. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  rise  to  a  point  of 
order. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  will  state  his  point  of 
order. 

MR.  \VADSWORTH,  of  New  York. — Mr.  Chairman,  the  resolution  of- 
fered by  the  gentleman  from  Missouri  (Mr.  Hadley)  relates  to  a  subject 
upon  which  the  Chair  ruled  in  reply  to  a  point  of  order  raised  day  before 
yesterday,  if  my  recollection  is  correct.  It  is  now  attempted,  by  the  intro- 
duction of  such  a  resolution  at  this  time,  to  reverse  the  ruling  of  the 
Chair  in  an  indirect  manner,  and  in  effect  to  amend,  or  establish  a  rule 
or  rules  of  this  Convention  at  this  time,  before  the  Committee  on  Rules 
has  had  an  opportunity  to  present  a  report.  For  that  reason  I  contend 
that  the  motion  of  the  Governor  of  Missouri  is  out  of  order. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  was  notified  some  little  time 
ago  of  the  intention  to  offer  this  resolution,  and  the  Chair  has  been  in 
grave  doubt  as  to  its  right  to  entertain  the  motion,  for  substantially  the 
reasons  stated  by  the  gentleman  from  New  York  (Mr.  Wadsworth). 

The  effect  of  the  resolution  would  be  to  reverse  the  ruling  of  the 
Chair  of  day  before  yesterday,  which  was  accepted  by  the  Convention 
without  appeal ;  and  it  would  have  the  effect  of  doing  what  is  practically 
conceded  to  be  in  violation  of  the  rules  of  parliamentary  law — to  deprive 
delegates  upon  the  temporary  roll  of  the  Convention  of  their  right  to  vote 
upon  cases  other  than  their  own,  presented  by  contests  in  which  they  are 
not  involved.  The  Chair  has  grave  doubt  of  the  right  of  the  Convention 
to  disfranchise  any  delegate  in  that  way.  Nevertheless,  it  seems  so  plainly 
for  the  general  interest  of  the  Republican  party  which  we  are  met  here 
to  promote,  that  a  question  of  that  kind  shall  be  passed  upon  by  the  Con- 
vention, when  presented,  that  the  Chair  has  determined  to  entertain  the 
motion,  and  to  overrule  the  point  of  order.  (Applause.) 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen: 
I  move  to  lay  on  the  table  the  resolution  offered  by  Governor  Hadley. 
(Applause.) 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  Indiana  (Mr.  Wat- 
son) moves  to  lay  upon  the  table  the  resolution  offered  by  the  gentleman 
from  Missouri  (Mr.  Hadley).  Are  you  ready  for  the  question? 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  179 

Several  delegates  demanded  a  roll  call. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — A  roll  call  is  demanded.  Is  the  call 
seconded  by  delegations  from  two  States? 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Pennsylvania  seconds  the  call. 

MR.  JOHN  FRANKLIN  FORT,  of  New  Jersey. — New  Jersey  seconds  the 
demand. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  demand  for  a  roll  call  is  seconded 
by  two  States,  and  the  Secretary  will  call  the  roll.  The  question  before 
the  Convention  is  on  the  motion  of  the  gentleman  from  Indiana  (Mr. 
Watson)  to  lay  on  the  table  the  motion  of  the  gentleman  from  Missouri 
(Mr.  Hadley). 

MR.  FRANCIS  J.  HENEY,  of  California. — Mr.  Chairman,  a  question  of 
information. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  will  state  the  question. 

MR.  HENEY,  of  California. — I  should  like  to  ask  whether  these  72  dele- 
gates are  to  vote  upon  this  motion  or  not. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — For  the  information  of  the  gentleman 
from  California  the  Chair  will  restate  the  effect  of  the  ruling  already 
made.  The  gentlemen  from  the  Ninth  District  of  Alabama,  whose  seats 
are  contested,  and  whose  right  to  sit  in  involved  in  this  report,  will  not 
be  permitted  to  vote.  (Applause.)  All  other  delegates  upon  the  tem- 
porary roll,  their  rights  not  being  involved  in  this  report,  will  be  per- 
mitted to  vote.  (Applause.) 

The  Secretary  proceeded  to  call  the  roll. 

The  vote  of  Alabama  was  announced :  20  yeas.  2  nays,  2  contested 
delegates  not  voting. 

MR.  JOHNSON,  of  California.' — Mr.  Chairman,  I  rise  to  a  point  of 
order. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  will  state  his  point  of 
order. 

MR.  JOHNSON,  of  California. — My  point  of  order  is  that  the  question 
on  which  we  are  to  vote  affects  the  seating  of  72  delegates,  and  not  of 
two  delegates  alone. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  point  of  order  is  not  well  taken. 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

The  State  of  Arizona  was  called,  and  the  vote  announced :    6  yeas. 

MR.  JOHNSON,  of  California. — What  was  the  ruling  on  my  point  of 
order  ? 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  point  of  order  is  overruled. 

MR.  JOHNSON,  of  California. — I  expected  it. 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  JOHNSON,  of  California  (when  the  State  of  California  was 
called). — Inasmuch  as  there  are  two  contested  delegates  from  California, 
we  vote  only  24  votes  nay. 


180 


OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 


The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Call  the  names  of  the  other  two  dele- 
gates. 

MR.  E.  H.  TRYON,  of  California. — Two  votes  "Yea." 

The  vote  of  California  was  announced:  2  yeas,  24  nayo. 

MR.  MEYER  LISSNER,  of  California. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  challenge  the 
vote  of  California. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  statement  of  the  vote  of  California 
is  challenged,  and  the  Secretary  will  call  the  names  of  the  members  of 
that  delegation. 

MR.  HENEY,  of  California. — I  challenge  the  right  of  the  two  men 
from  California  who  are  contested  to  vote  upon  this  question. 

The  Secretary  called  the  roll  of  the  California  delegation,  and  it 
resulted  as  follows : 


CALIFORNIA. 

AT    LARGE. 

Delegates.  Yea.  Nay 

Hiram     W.     Johnson 

Chester     H.     Rowfell 

Meyer    Lissner 

Francis  J.    Heney 

William    Kent     

Mrs.    Florence  C.    Porter 

Marshall    Stimson     

Frank     S.     Wallace 

George     C.     Pardee 

Lee    C.    Gates 

Clinton    L.    White 

John    M.    Eshleman 

C.     H.     Windham 

William    H.    Sloane 

C.     C.    Young 

Ralph    W.    Bull 

S.    C.    Beach 

John   H.    McCallum 

Truxton   Beale 

\V.     G.     Tillotson 

Sumner     Crosby 

Charles     E.     Snook 

Mrs.    Isabella   W.    Blaney 

Jesse     L.     Hurlburt 

DISTRICTS.— Delegates. 

4 — E.    H.    Tryon I 

Morris    Meyerfeld,    Jr i 


a  »4 

MR.  JOHNSON,  of  California. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  challenge  the  right  of 
those  two  members  in  the  California  delegation  whose  seats  are  contested 
to  vote  upon  that  question. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  181 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

The  vote  of  Indiana  was  announced :    Yeas,  20 ;  nays,  9 ;  not  voting,  1. 

MR.  WILLIAM  HOLTON  DYE,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman,  inasmuch  as 
there  are  two  delegates  in  this  delegation  whose  seats  are  contested,  I 
protest  against  the  vote  as  announced,  and  challenge  it.  I  ask  for  a  poll 
of  the  delegation. 

The  State  of  Maryland  was  called,  and  the  result  was  announced : 
Yeas,  8;  nays,  7;  not  voting,  1. 

MR.  GALEN  L.  TAIT,  of  Maryland. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  call  for  a  poll  of 
the  State  of  Maryland. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Does  the  gentleman  challenge  the  an- 
nouncement of  the  vote? 

MR.  TAIT,  of  Maryland. — I  do. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  announcement  of  the  vote  of  Mary- 
land is  challenged,  and  the  delegates  will  be  called  by  name. 

The  Secretary  called  the  roll  of  the  Maryland  delegation,  and  the 
result  was  announced  as  follows : 

MARYLAND. 

AT    LARGE. 

Delegates.  Yea.  Nay. 

Phillips   Lee    Goldsborough i 

William   T.    Warburton I 

Edw.  C.  Carrington,    Jr.    (By  C.  Ross  Mace,  alternate')      . .  i 

George   L,   Wellington    (By   Gist   Blair,    alternate)  ....  i 

DISTRI  CTS. — Delegates. 

i — Albert  G.    Tower i 

William    B.    Tilghman i 

2 — Robert    Garrett     i 

John    H.    Cunningham i 

3— Alfred    R.    Moreland i 

Louis  E.   Melis i 

4 — Theodore    P.    Weis i 

Joseph    P.    Evans i 

5 — Adrian    Posey i 

R.    N.     Ryan i 

6 — S.    K.    Jones i 

Galen    L.    Tait i 


The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  JAMES  W.  WADSWORTH,  JR.,  of  New  York  (when  the  State  of 
New  York  was  called).— Mr.  Chairman,  I  desire  to  say  that  I  think  the 
New  York  delegation  would  prefer  a  roll  call,  but  that  cannot  be  obtained 
without  the  result  of  the  vote  being  challenged.  After  as  good  a  poll  as 
can  be  made  under  existing  circumstances,  New  York  reports  76  yeas,  13 
nays,  1  not  voting. 


182  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

MR.  JACOB  L.  HOLTZMAN,  of  New  York. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  make  a 
formal  objection,  and  ask  for  a  roll  call. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Does  the  gentleman  challenge  the  an- 
nouncement ? 

MR.  JOSIAH  T.  NEWCOMB,  of  New  York. — I  make  a  formal  challenge 
of  the  vote  and  ask  for  a  roll  call. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  vote  of  New  York  being  challenged, 
the  Secretary  will  call  the  roll  of  that  delegation. 

The  Secretary  called  the  roll  of  the  New  York  delegation,  and  the 
result  was  announced :  Yeas,  76 ;  nays,  13  ;  not  voting,  1,  as  follows : 

NEW  YORK. 

AT    LARGE. 

Delegates.  Yea.        Nay.     Not  Voting. 

Elihu  Root   (By   B.   W.   B.    Brown,  alternate) i 

William    Barnes,    Jr i 

Edwin    A.    Merritt,    Jr i 

William     Berri      i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — William   Carr i 

Smith    Cox     i 

2 — Theron   H.    Burden i 

Frank    E.    Losee i 

3 — David    Towle i 

Alfred    E.    Vass i 

4 — Timothy     L.     Woodruff i 

Wm.    A.    Prendergast i 

5 — William   Berri    (By  Robt.    Wellwood,   alternate) i 

Alfred   T.    Hobley i 

6— William    M.    Calder i 

Lewis   M.    Swasey i 

7 — Michael    J.     Dady i 

Jacob    Brenner     i 

8 — Marcus    B.     Campbell i 

Frederick    Linde     i 

9— Thomas     B.     Lineburgh i 

Rhinehard    H.     Pforr i 

10 — Clarence    B.     Smith i 

Jacob    L.     Holtzmann i 

ii — George  Cromwell i 

Chauncey    M.     Depew i 

12 — J.    Van  Vechten    Olcott i 

Alexander    Wolf     i 

13 — James     E.     March i 

Charles    H.    Murray i 

14 — Samuel     S.     Koenig i 

Frederick    C.    Tanner i 

15— Job  E.   Hedges  (By  Courtlandt  Nicoll,  alternate).  .  .  'i 

Fira    P.     Prentice i 

1 6 — Oxlo    T.     Bannard i 

Martin    Steinthal i 

17 — Nicholas    Murray    Butler i 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION. 


183 


NEW    YORK.— Continued. 
DISTRICTS. — Delegates.  Yea.        Nay.     Not  Voting. 

William    H.    Douglas i 

18 — Ogden    L.    Mills i 

Charles    L.    Bernheimer i 

19 — Samuel     Strasbourger      i 

Louis    N.     Hammerling i 

20 — Herbert    Parsons i 

Samuel  Krulewitch i 

21 — Lloyd    C.    Griscom j 

Frank    K.    Bowers i 

*2-«-James    L.    Wells i 

Ernest     F.     Eilert i 

33 — Josiah     T.     Xewcomb i 

Herman     T.      Redin i 

*4 — Alexander   S.    Cochran    (By  John   H.    Nichols,   Alt.)  .        \ 

William    Archer     i 

25 — William    L.    Ward i 

John    J.     Brown i 

»6 — Joseph     M.     Dickey i 

Samuel    K.    Phillips i 

27 — Louis  F.  Payn i 

Martin     Cantine      i 

28 — James   H.    Perkins i 

Alba     M.     Ide i 

*9 — Louis    W.    Emerson i 

Cornelius    V.     Collins i 

30 — Lucius    N.    Littauer i 

J.     Ledlie    Hees i 

31 — George  R.   Malby   (By  Harvey  C.   Carter,  alternate)  .         : 

John    H.    Moffitt i 

32 — Francis    M.    Hugo i 

Perry    G.     Williams .- . .  i 

43 — Judson     J.      Gilbert i 

William    S.     Doolittle i 

34 — George    W.     Fairchild i 

Lafayette   B.   Gleason    (By  Howard   D.   Newton,  Alt.)        i 
35 — Francis    Hendricks i 

James    M.    Gilbert i 

36 — Sereno    E.    Payne i 

Albert    M.     Patterson i 

37 — Andrew   D.   White    (By   Elmer   Sherwood,  alternate)  .         i 

Alanson     B.     Houghton i 

38 — George  W.  Aldridge   (By  P.  V.  Crirtenden,  Alt.) i 

James   L.    Hotchkiss i 

39 — James    W.     Wadsworth i 

Frederick    C.    Stevens i 

40 — William     H.     Daniels i 

James    S.    Simmons i 

41— Charles    P.    Woltz i 

Nathan  Wolff   (By  John  H.   Clogston,  alternate)  ...        i 
44 — John    Grimm     J 

Simon   Seibert   (By  Charles  H.    Brown,  alternate)  .   .        i 
43 — Frank     Sullivan     Smith i 

Frank     O.     Anderson i 


Total 


r6 


184  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

The  State  of  North  Carolina  was  called,  and  the  vote  was  announced: 
Yeas,  3;  nays,  21. 

MR.  ISAAC  M.  MEEKINS,  of  North  Carolina. — Mr.  Chairman,  North 
Carolina  wants  a  poll  of  its  vote.  There  are  recorded  here  delegates  who 
are  not  in  their  seats,  and  whose  alternates  are  absent. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Does  the  gentleman  challenge  the  an- 
nouncement? The  gentleman's  statement  amounts  to  a  challenge  of  the 
announcement,  and  the  roll  of  the  North  Carolina  delegation  will  be  called. 

The  Secretary  called  the  roll  of  the  North  Carolina  delegation,  and 
the  result  was  announced :  Yeas,  3 ;  nays,  19 ;  not  voting,  2,  as  follows : 

NORTH    CAROLINA. 

AT    LAEGK. 

Delegates.                                                                        Yta.  Nay.     Not  Voting. 

Zeb    V.     Walser i 

Richmond    Pearson     I 

Thomas    E.     Owen i 

Cyrus    Thompson i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Isaac   M.    Meekins i 

Wheeler    Martin     i 

j — Daniel    W.     Patrick i 

George   W.    Stanton i 

3 — Marion    Butler i 

W.  S.   O'B.   Robinson i 

4— J.  C.  L.  Harris   (By  Charles  D.  Wildes,  alternate)  .   .        i 

John  C.   Matthews i 

5 — James   N.    Williasison i 

Jno.    T.    Benbow i 

6—  R.    S.    White i 

D.    H.     Senter i 

7— C.    H.    Cowles i 

J.    T.    Hedrick i 

8 — Moses    N.    Hmrshaw i 

W.    Henry    Hobson i 

9 — S.    S.    McNinch . .                i 

Charles    E.    Green i 

10 — A.    T.    Pritchard i 

R.    H.     Staton i 

Total 3  20               i 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

The  State  of  Oregon  was  called,  and  the  vote  was  announced :  Yeas, 
5;  nays,  5. 

MR.  CHARLES  W.  ACKERSON,  of  Oregon. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  challenge 
the  vote  of  Oregon  and  demand  a  roll  call. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  challenges  the  announce- 
ment of  the  vote  of  Oregon.  The  Secretary  will  call  the  roll. 

The  Secretary  called  the  roll  of  the  Oregon  delegation,  and  the  result 
was  announced  :  Yeas,  5 ;  nays,  5,  as  follows  : 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  185 


OREGON. 

AT    LARGE. 

Delegates.  Yea.  Nay. 

Charles    W.    Ackerson I 

Daniel   Boyd i 

Fred    S.    Bynon i 

Homer    C.    Campbell i 

Charles    H.    Carey i 

Henry    Waldo    Coe i 

D.    D:    Hail i 

Thomas     McCusker i 

J.   N.   Smith i 

A.  V.   Swift i 


The  Secretary  having  resumed  and  concluded  the  calling  of  the  roll 
of  States,  the  result  was  announced :  Yeas,  569 ;  nays,  499 ;  not  voting,  10, 
as  follows : 

States,  Territories,  and                                          Number  Not 
Delegate   Districts.                                                of  Votes.     Yeas.    Nays.  Voting. 

Alabama 24  20  2            * 

Arizona 6  6 

Arkansas 18  17  i 

California 26  2  24 

Colorado    .  .  .' 12  12 

Connecticut 14  14 

Delaware 6  6 

Florida 12  12 

Georgia 28  28 

Idaho 8  ..  8 

Illinois 58  7  51 

Indiana     30  20  9             i 

Iowa 26  16  to 

Kansas 20  2  18 

Kentucky 26  24  2 

Louisiana 20  20 

Maine 12  . .  12 

Maryland 16  8  8 

Massachusetts 36  18  18 

Michigan      30  20  10 

Minnesota 24  . .  24 

Mississippi ao  .16  4 

Missouri 36  16  20 

Montana 8  8 

Nebraska 16  . .  16 

Nevada 6  6 

New  Hampshire 8  8 

New    Jersey 28  38  28 

New    Mexico 8  7  i 

New  York go  76  13             i 

North   Carolina 24  3  20             i 


186  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

States,  Territories,  and  Number  Not 

Delegate  Ditsricts.  of  Votes.     Yeas.    Nays.  Voting. 

North    Dakota 10                        10 

Ohio 48  14           34 

Oklahoma 2°  4           16 

Oregon      10  5             5 

Pennsylvania     76  *a           64 

Rhode    Island 10  10 

South     Carolina 18  12             5              I 

South    Dakota 10                          10 

Tennessee 24  23              i 

Texas     40  29              9              2 

Utah 8             7             i 

Vermont 8  6             2 

Virginia 24  21             2             i 

Washington 14  14 

West  Virginia 16  . .            16 

Wisconsin 26                         25              i 

Wyoming     6             6 

Alaska 2             2 

District    of    Colv.mbia 2             2 

Hawaii 6             6 

Philippine    Islands 2             2 

Porto    Rico a              J 

Totals 1078         569         499  10 

So  Mr.  Watson's  motion  to  lay  on  the  table  Mr.  Hadley's  resolution 
was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  motion  of  the  gentleman  from  Vir- 
ginia (Mr.  Walker)  is  now  in  order.  That  motion  is  to  lay  on  the 
table  the  motion  to  substitute  the  views  of  the  minority  for  the  majority 
report. 

MR.  R.  J.  WALKER,  of  Virginia. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  yield  to  the  gen- 
tleman from  Indiana  (Mr.  Watson). 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  renew  the  mo- 
tion of  the  gentleman  from  Virginia  (Mr.  Walker)  to  lay  on  the  table 
the  motion  to  substitute  the  views  of  the  minority  for  the  majority  report. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  Virginia  having 
yielded  to  the  gentleman  from  Indiana  (Mr.  Watson),  the  latter  moves 
to  lay  on  the  table  the  motion  of  the  gentleman  from  Missouri  (Mr.  Had- 
ley)  to  substitute  the  views  of  the  minority  for  the  majority  report  upon 
the  contest  in  the  Ninth  Alabama  District. 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — I  rise  to  a  parliamentary  inquiry. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  will  state  his  parliamen- 
tary inquiry. 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — As  I  understand,  a  vote  "Yea"  upon  this 
motion  is  a  vote  to  defeat  the  motion  made  by  myself  to  substitute  the 
views  of  the  minority  for  the  report  of  the  majority? 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — It  is. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  187 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — But  it  does  not  carry  the  majority  report 
with  it? 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — It  does  not.  Are  you  ready  for  the 
question?  The  question  is  on  agreeing  to  the  motion  to  table  the  motion 
of  the  gentleman  from  Missouri  (Mr.  Hadley)  to  substitute  the  views  of 
the  minority  for  the  majority  report. 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — On  that  I  ask  the  yeas  and  nays. 

MR.  FORT,  of  New  Jersey. — On  behalf  of  New  Jersey  I  second  the 
demand. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania. — Pennsylvania  likewise  sec- 
onds the  demand. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — A  roll-call  having  been  demanded,  and 
the  demand  having  been  seconded  by  two  States,  the  Secretary  will  call  the 
roll. 

The  question  is  on  agreeing  to  the  motion  to  lay  on  the  table  the  mo- 
tion to  substitute  the  views  of  the  minority  for  the  majority  report.  A 
vote  "yea"  is  a  vote  in  favor  of  the  majority  report;  a  vote  "nay"  is  in 
favor  of  the  views  of  the  minority. 

The  Secretary  proceeded  to  call  the  roll  of  States. 

The  State  of  Maryland  was  called,  and  the  result  was  announced : 
Yeas,  8 ;  nays,  8. 

MR.  GALEN  L.  TAIT,  of  Maryland. — I  challenge  the  vote  of  Maryland. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  vote  of  Maryland  being  challenged, 
the  roll  of  delegates  from  that  State  will  be  called. 

The  Secretary  having  called  the  roll  of  the  Maryland  delegation,  the 
result  was  announced :  Yeas,  8  ;  nays,  8,  as  follows  : 

MARYLAND. 

AT     LARGE. 

Delegates.  Yea.  Nay. 

Phillips    Lee    Goldsborough i 

Wm.     T.     Warburton i 

Edw.    C.    Carrington,    Jr i 

George  L.  Wellington   (By  Gist  Blair,  alternate) i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Albert    G.    Tower i 

William    B.    Tighman i 

2 — Robert   Garrett i 

John  H.   Cunningham i 

3 — Alfred    A.     Moreland i 

Louis    E.     Melis i 

4— Theodore  P.  Weis  (By  Wm.  G.  Albrecht,  Alt.)  ....  i 

Joseph     P.     Evans i 

5 — Adrian     Posey      * 

R.    N.    Ryan i 

6— S.    K.    Jones i 

Galen    L.    Tail i 


188  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS   OF  THE 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 
The  vote  of  Massachusetts  was  announced :   Yeas,  18 ;  nays,  18. 
MR.  GEORGE  L.  BARNES,  of  Massachusetts. — I  challenge  the  vote  of 
Massachusetts  and  demand  a  roll  call. 

The  Massachusetts  delegation  was  called,  and  resulted  as  follows: 

MASSACHUSETTS. 

AT    LARGE. 

Delegates.  Yea.  Nay. 

Charles    S.     Baxter i 

George    W.    Coleman i 

Frederick    Fosdick i 

Albert  Bushnell  Hart i 

Octave    A.    LaRiviere i 

James    P.    Magenis i 

Arthur   L.    Nason i 

Alvin    G.    Weeks i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Cummings   C.   Chesney i 

Eugene    B.     Blake i 

a — Embury    P.     Clark i 

William    H.     Feiker i 

3— Matthew     J.     Whittall i 

Lawrence     F.     Kilty i 

4 — John     M.    Keyes i 

Frederick   P.   Glazier i 

S — Herbert    L.     Chapman i 

Smith  M.  Decker   (By  James  R.  Berwick,  Alt.)  ...  i 

6 — James    F.    Ingraham,  Jr i 

Isaac  Patch   (By  Alfred  E.   Lunt,  alternate)  ...        i 

7 — Charles    M.    Cox i 

Lynn  M.  Ranger i 

8 — John    Read     i 

George     S.     Lovejoy i 

9 — Alfred    Tewksbury     i 

Loyal  L.   Jenkins    (By  Daniel   T.   Callahan,  Alt.)      ..  i 

10 — H.    Clifford    Gallagher i 

Guy  A.   Ham i 

ii — Grafton    D.    Gushing i 

W.     Prentiss     Parker I 

12 — J.    Stearns    Gushing X 

George    L.    Barnes i 

13 — John    Westall     i 

Abbott   P.    Smith i 

14 — Eldon    B.     Keith i 

Warren    A.    Swift i 

18  18 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

The  vote  of  Oregon  was  announced — Yeas,  6 ;  Nays,  4. 

Ma.  CHARLES  W.  ACKERSON,  of  Oregon. — I  challenge  the  vote. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  189 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  roll  of  Oregon  being  challenged,  the 
roll  of  the  delegation  from  that  State  will  be  called. 

The  Secretary  called  the  roll  of  Oregon,  which  resulted : 

OREGON. 

AT     LARGE. 

'  Delegates.  Yea.  Nay. 

Charles    W.     Ackerson I 

Daniel   Boyd i 

Fred    S.    Bynon i 

Homer     C.     Campbell i 

Charles  H.   Carey i 

Henry    Waldo    Coe i 

D.    D.    Hall i 

Thomas  McCusker i 

J.   N.   Smith i 

A.  V.   Swift i 


The  Secretary  having  resumed  and  concluded  the  calling  of  the  roll 
of  States,  the  result  was  announced — Yeas,  605;  Nays,  464;  not  voting,  9, 
as  follows : 

Not 

Yeas.  Nays.  Voting. 
20     2     a 
6 

17      i 


14 
6 

13 
28 

8 
7     5* 

20       IO 

16     10 

2       18 


8     8 
18     18 

20       IO 
23 

16      4 
16    20 

8 

16 

6 

8 


States,    Territories,   and 

Number 

Delegate   Districts. 

of  Votes. 

Alabama    

24 

Arizona     

6 

18 

26 

Colorado    

12 

Connecticut     ,  

14 

6 

Florida    

12 

Georgia  

28 

Idaho  

8 

Illinois    

58 

Indiana     

30 

26 

26 

Maine    

12 

Maryland  

16 

Massachusetts    

36 

Michigan     

30 

Minnesota    

24 

Mississippi    

Missouri  

36 

Montana  

8 

Nebraska  

16 

Nevada  

6 

New  Hampshire  

8 

190  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

States,  Territories,  and                                             Number  Not 
Delegate  Ditsricts.                                                  of  Votes.     Yeas.    Nays.  Voting. 

New    Jersey 28  . .  28 

New    Mexico 8  7  i 

New  York 90  77  12              i 

North    Carolina 24  3  20              i 

North    Dakota 10  ..  10 

Ohio 48  14  34 

Oklahoma 4  16 

Oregon      10  6  4 

Pennsylvania     76  12  64 

Rhode    Island 10  10 

South     Carolina 18  12  5              i 

South    Dakota 10  . .  10 

Tennessee 24  23  i 

Texas 40  29  10             i 

Utah 8  7  i 

Vermont 8  6  2 

Virginia 24  22  i              i 

Washington 14  14 

West  Virginia t6  ..  16 

Wisconsin 26  25  . .              i 

Wyoming 6  6 

Alaska 2  2 

District    of    Columbia 2  2 

Hawaii 6  6 

Philippine    Islands 2  2 

Porto   Rico 2  2 

Totals 1078         605         464  9 

So  the  motion  of  Mr.  Watson,  of  Indiana,  to  lay  on  the  table  the  mo- 
tion of  Mr.  Hadley,  of  Missouri,  to  substitute  the  views  of  the  minority 
for  the  majority  report,  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  now  is  upon  the  adoption 
of  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  on  the  9th  Alabama  contest. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

ARIZONA  CONTESTS. 

MR.  W.  T.  DOVELL.  of  \Yashington. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  present  the  re- 
port of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  relating  to  the  contests  in  Arizona. 
I  ask  the  Secretary  to  read  the  same,  after  which  I  shall  move  its  adop- 
tion. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Secretary  will  read  the  report  for 
the  information  of  the  Convention. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 

DELEGATES  AT  LARGE  FROM  ARIZONA. 

The  executive  committee  of  the  Arizona  State  Committee  on  May  1st 
issued  a  call  for  a  state  convention,  to  be  held  at  Tucson  on  the  3rd  day 
of  June.  By  the  terms  of  the  call,  there  being  no  state  presidential  primary 
law,  the  various  county  committees  were  authorized  to  determine  in  what 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  191 

manner  the  delegates  to  the  state  convention  should  be  elected,  namely, 
whether  by  appointment  by  the  county  committees,  or  by  direct  primary 
election,  or  by  a  primary  election  of  delegates  to  a  county  convention, 
which  should  select  delegates  to  the  state  convention.  The  county  com- 
mittees were  required  to  meet  on  the  15th  day  of  May,  to  make  this  de- 
termination, and  the  appointment  or  election  of  delegates  was  to  be  made 
on  the  25th  day  of  May,  nearly  all  of  the  counties  determined  according 
to  former  practice,  upon  the  appointment  of  delegates  by  the  county  com- 
mittee. Two  counties,  Kinal  and  Graham,  held  primaries  and  elected  dele- 
gates to  county  conventions.  It  was  in  dispute  whether  the  majority  of 
the  committee  in  Maricopa  County  determined  upon  one  course  or  the 
other.  At  the  assembling  of  the  county  committee  in  that  county  on  the 
15th  day  of  May,  the  chairman,  a  Roosevelt  man,  without  waiting  for  a  roll 
call,  or  for  any  motion,  appointed  three  Roosevelt  men  to  constitute  a 
committee  on  credentials.  A  dispute  arose  as  to  whether  or  not  proxies 
from  absent  committeemen  should  be  received.  If  they  were  received, 
those  favoring  appointment  of  delegates  to  the  state  convention  would 
be  in  the  majority,  and  if  proxies  were  rejected,  those  favoring  a  primary 
would  be  in  a  majority. 

It  had  been  the  uniform  practice  to  receive  proxies  of  committee- 
men  who  were  unable  to  attend,  but  in  this  instance  it  was  sought  to  reject 
proxies,  on  the  ground  which  we  deem  wholly  untenable,  that  a  proxy  to 
be  valid  must  be  certified  by  the  county  chairman  and  secretary.  The  re- 
sult in  effect  was  that  two  meetings  were  held  on  May  15th,  the  one  fol- 
lowing the  other,  by  one  of  which  a  call  was  issued  signed  by  the  chair- 
man for  a  primary  to  elect  delegates  to  a  county  convention,  which  should 
select  delegates  to  the  state  cpnvention ;  and  by  the  other  a  call  was  issued 
signed  by  the  secretary  of  the  county  committee,  and  a  pro-tempore  chair- 
man for  a  meeting  of  the  county  committee  to  select  delegates  to  the  state 
convention.  Two  sets  of  delegates  to  the  state  convention  were  thus  elect- 
ed. A  variety  of  contests  was  set  up  in  other  counties,  to  such  an  extent 
that  a  minority  only  of  the  delegates  entitled  to  sit  in  the  convention  was 
uncontested.  The  chairman  of  the  state  central  committee,  learning  of  this 
situation,  instead  of  personally  making  up  the  temporary  roll  of  the  con- 
vention, as  had  been  the  practice,  called  a  meeting  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee to  be  held  at  Tucson  on  the  morning  of  June  1st,  two  days  before 
the  date  set  for  holding  the  convention.  Notice  was  given  by  mail  and 
wire  to  all  county  chairmen,  and  all  persons  claiming  to  have  been  elected 
delegates,  to  present  credentials  to  the  state  executive  committee  at  that 
time  and  place.  The  notice  was  also  given  through  the  newspapers,  and 
the  contestants  here  admitted  full  knowledge  of  the  meeting  of  the  com- 
mittee to  make  up  the  temporary  roll.  The  committee  was  in  attendance 
and  prepared  to  receive  credentials  and  hear  contests  from  June  1st,  10 
o'clock,  to  the  assembling  of  the  convention  on  June  3rd.  Two  sets  of  ere- 


192  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF  THE 

dentials  were  received  from  Cochise  county,  and  both  delegations  were 
seated,  with  one-half  vote  each.  No  other  contests  were  presented,  and 
it  was  conceded  that  the  contests  in  other  counties  except  Maricopa  were 
without  merit.  Credentials  were  presented  to  the  state  executive  com- 
mittee from  all  the  counties,  and  the  temporary  roll  of  delegates  was  made 
up  from  the  credentials  as  presented. 

The  state  convention  assembled  on  June  3rd  at  the  place  designated 
in  the  original  call,  and  was  called  to  order  by  the  chairman  of  the  state 
central  committee.  The  call  was  read  by  the  Secretary,  and  the  Chairman 
made  a  full  statement  of  the  circumstances  under  which  the  temporary  roll 
had  been  made  up.  The  Secretary  then  read  the  temporary  roll.  The 
Chairman  then  called  for  nominations  for  temporary  chairman,  and  J.  J. 
Reddick,  whose  seat  was  not  in  contest,  was  nominated  by  an  uncontested 
delegate.  At  this  point  objection  was  made  by  a  person  whose  name  was 
not  on  the  temporary  roll,  who  stated  that  he  did  not  recognize  the  validity 
of  the  roll.  A  point  of  order  was  raised  and  sustained,  that  this  person 
was  not  a  member  of  the  convention.  The  chairman  then  asked  if  there 
were  any  other  nominations,  and  none  other  being  made,  he  put  the 
question,  and  declared  J.  J.  Reddick  elected,  and  Mr.  Reddick  took  his 
position  as  Chairman. 

At  about  this  time  a  number  of  persons,  including  about  17  whose 
names  were  on  the  temporary  roll,  rushed  to  the  right-hand  side  of  the 
hall,  one  of  their  number  mounted  the  platform,  and  after  fifteen  or  twenty 
minutes  of  noise  and  confusion  they  left  the  hall  and  did  not  return.  This 
contest  is  the  result  of  the  proceedings  so  conducted  during  that  space  of 
time.  It  is  contended  that  a  valid  convention  was  held  in  this  man- 
ner, and  that  the  delegation  headed  by  Dwight  B.  Heard  was  elected.  A 
record  of  this  so-called  convention  was  presented  to  us,  showing  the  ap- 
pointment and  report  of  committees,  and  the  election  of  delegates  to  this 
convention.  It  was  conceded  that  these  reports,  including  that  of  the 
committee  on  credentials,  were  prepared  in  advance,  that  the  committees 
did  not  retire,  and  that  the  reports  were  signed  without  change. 

It  was  conceded  that  the  credentials  of  the  contesting  delegates  from 
Maricopa  county  were  not  presented  to  the  convention  presided  over  by 
Mr.  Reddick,  or  to  the  committee  on  credentials  appointed  by  that  conven- 
tion. 

The  convention  presided  over  by  Mr.  J.  J.  Reddick  remained  in  the 
hall  and  in  session  for  at  least  two  hours  and  a  half.  Out  of  the  ninety- 
three  delegates  entitled  to  sit  in  the  convention,  as  shown  upon  the  tem- 
porary roll,  sixty  remained  in  the  convention,  after  the  bolt,  and  also  the 
sixteen  from  Cochise  county,  entitled  to  a  half  vote  each.  The  usual  com- 
mittees were  appointed,  and  a  recess  taken  to  await  their  reports,  which 
were  received  and  adopted  by  the  convention.  The  temporary  roll  was 
accepted  and  made  the  permanent  roll  of  the  convention.  The  temporary 


MK.    JOHN    C.    ROTH,    of   Illinois, 
Treasurer  of  the   Local  Committee. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  193 

organization  of  the  convention  was  made  the  permanent  organization, 
a  number  of  speeches  were  made  by  delegates,  a  vote  of  thanks  passed  to 
the  citizens  of  Tucson,  who  had  arranged  for  the  entertainment  and  re- 
ception of  this  first  Republican  convention  in  the  new  State,  and  adjourn- 
ment had  in  regular  order. 

We  are  of  opinion,  and  report  that  the  convention  so  held  was  the 
only  regular  and  legal  convention  held  within  the  State  of  Arizona,  and 
that  the  delegates  and  alternates  elected  by  it  are  entitled  to  seats  in  this 
National  Convention,  namely : 

J.  L.  Hubbell,  Robert  E.  Morrison,  James  T.  Williams,  Jr.,  Ph.  Freu- 
denthal,  Dr.  F.  T.  Wright,  J.  C.  Adams. 

ALTERNATES. 

W.  H.  Clark,  alternate  for  J.  L,  Hubbell. 

J.  J.  Reddick,  alternate  for  Robert  E.  Morrison. 

J.  Vance  Clymer,  alternate  for  James  T.  Williams,  Jr. 

W.  D.  Fiske,  alternate  for  Ph.  Freudenthal. 

Allen  T.  Bird,  alternate  for  Dr.  F.  T.  Wright.  '  j 

Isaac  T.  Stoddard,  alternate  for  J.  C.  Adams. 

MR.  JOHN  J.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  I  am 
authorized  by  the  fifteen  members  of  the  minority  of  the  Credentials  Com- 
mittee to  submit  the  following  minority  report,  and  I  shall  move  its 
adoption  as  a  substitute  for  the  majority  report.  It  will  take  but  a  mo- 
ment to  read  it. 

"We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Commiteee  on  Credentials  of 
the  National  Republican  Committee,  hereby  submit  the  following  report: 

"(1)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  members  of 
*he  committee  in  sitting  upon  and  participating  in  the  actions  of  the  com- 
mittee. Mr.  J.  C.  Adams  of  Arizona.  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken  of  Texas  and  Mr. 
W.  T.  Dovell  of  Washington,  for  the  reason  that  each  of  these  men  wis 
elected  by  entire  delegations  whose  seats  are  contested. 

"(2)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  men,  Mr.  J.  C. 
Adams  of  Arizona,  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken  of  Texas  and  Mr.  W.  T.  Dovell  of 
of  Washington,  from  participating  in  and  voting  upon  the  questions  in  any 
of  the  contests  on  the  ground  that  they  are  in  effect  sitting  as  judges  in 
their  own  cases. 

"(3)  We  protest  against  Mr.  Thomas  H.  Devine  of  Colorado.  Mr. 
Fred  W.  Estabrook  of  New  Hampshire,  Mr.  Henry  Blun,  Jr.,  of  Georgia; 
Mr.  L.  B.  Moseley  of  Mississippi,  and  Mr.  L.  P.  Shackelford  of  Alaska, 
sitting  as  members  of  this  committee,  for  the  reasons  that  they  were 
members  of  the  National  Committee  and  participated  in  its  deliberations 
and  actions. 

"(4)  We  find  that  the  following  persons  reported  upon  by  the  ma- 
jority of  members  of  this  committee  are  not  entitled  to  seats  in  this  con- 
vention and  should  not  be  placed  upon  its  permanent  roll : 


194  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

ARIZONA. 

AT     LARGE. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

J.    L.   Hubbell,  \V-    H.   Clark, 

J.  T.  Williams,  Jr.,  J.  J.   Reddick, 

R.   H.    Friedenthal,  Allen   T.   Bird, 

Robert  E.    Morrison,  W.   D.    Fisk, 

F.   L.   Wright,  I.    L.    Stoddard, 

J.   C.  Adams,  H.  V.   Clymer. 

"(3)  And  we  further  report  that  in  place  of  the  said  persons  the  fol- 
lowing persons  were  duly  elected  and  are  legally  entitled  to  seats  in  this 
convention  and  should  be  seated  and  accredited  to  their  respective  states 
and  districts  as  follows : 

ARIZONA. 

AT    LARGE. 

Delegates. 
Dwight  B.   Heard, 
E.  S.  Clark, 

John  C.  Greenway,  .ind   Their  Alternates. 

Ben  F.  Daniels, 
Thomas   D.   Molloy, 
John    McK.    Redmond, 

Signed: 

W.    S.    LADDER,  JOHN    BOYD    AVIS, 

ROBERT  R.  McCORMICK,  D.  J.   NORTON, 

CLENCY  ST.   CLAIR,  HARRY    SHAW,    West    Virginia; 

HUGH    T.    HALBERT,    Minnesota; 

J.    M.    LIBBY,   Maine; 

JOHN  J.   SULLIVAN.  Ohio. 

T  move  the  adoption  of  this  report  as  a  substitute  for  the  majority  re- 
port. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  on  the  table  the  motion  of 
the  gentleman  from  Ohio. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  is  on  agreeing  to  the  mo- 
tion of  the  gentleman  from  Indiana,  to  lay  on  the  table  the  motion  of 
the  gentleman  from  Ohio  (Mr.  Sullivan)  to  substitute  the  views  of  the 
minority  for  the  report  of  the  majority. 

MR.  HENEY,  of  California. — On  that  question  I  demand  a  roll  call. 

The  demand  for  the  yeas  and  nays  was  seconded  by  Mr.  William  P. 
Hubbard,  of  West  Virginia,  on  behalf  of  that  State,  and  by  Mr.  William 
Flinn,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  behalf  of  that  State. 

The  yeas  and  nays  were  ordered. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  is  on  the  motion  of  the 
gentleman  from  Indiana  (Mr.  Watson)  to  lay  on  the  table  the  motion  of 
the  gentleman  from  Ohio  (Mr.  Sullivan)  to  substitute  the  views  of  the 
minority  for  the  majority  report.  The  Secretary  will  call  the  roll. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  195 

The  Secretary  proceeded  to  call  the  roll. 

The  vote  of  Maryland  was  announced — Yeas,  7;  Nays,  7;  2  not  vot- 
ing. 

MR.  JOSEPH  P.  EVANS,  of  Maryland.— I  challenge  the  vote  and  ask  for 
a  roll  call. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  vote  of  Maryland  having  been  chal- 
lenged, the  Secretary  will  call  the  roll. 

The  Secretary  called  the  roll  of  the  Maryland  delegation,  and  the 
result  was  announced — Yeas,  9;  Nays,  7 — as  follows: 

MARYLAND. 

AT     LARGE. 

Delegates.  Yea.  Nay. 

Phillips    Lee    Goldsborough I 

William    T.    Warburton I 

Edw.   C.   Carrington,  Jr i 

George  L.   Wellington    (By  Gist   Blair,  alternate) I 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i  —  Albert     G.     Tower i 

William    B.    Tilghman i 

2 — Robert    Garrett i 

John    H.    Cunningham i 

3--  Alfred  A.   Moreland i 

Louis    E.     Melis i 

4— Theodore   P.   Weis i 

Joseph     P.     Evans i 

5 — Adrian   Posey i 

R.    N.    Ryan i 

6— S.    K.    Jones i 

Galen    L.    Tait i 


The  Secretary  having  resumed  and  concluded  the  calling  of  the  roll, 

the  result  was  announced,  yeas  564,  nays  497,  not  voting  17,  as  follows : 

States,    Territories,   and                                            Number  Not 

Delegate   Districts.                                                   of  Votes.  Yeas.     Nays.  Voting. 

Alabama 24  22             2 

Arizona 6  •  •                             6 

Arkansas :  8  17              » 

California z6  2           2* 

Colorado I2  I2 

Connecticut !4  '4 

Delaware 6  6 

Florida I2  I2 

Georgia 28  zS 

Idaho  

Illinois Si 

Indiana     3°  20           10 

Iowa    .                       26  l6           I0 


196  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

States,  Territories,  and                                             Number  Not 

Delegate  Ditsricts.                                                  of  Votes.  Yeas.    Nays,  looting. 

Kansas 2°  2            J8 

Kentucky 26  24              2 

Louisiana 20  20 

Maine 12  ••            12 

Maryland 16  9              7 

Massachusetts 36  18            18 

Michigan      30  20            10 

Minnesota 24  jj             2 

Mississippi 20  16              4 

Missouri 36  16            20 

Montana 8  8 

Nebraska 16  .  .             16 

Nevada 6  6 

New    Jersey 8 

New  Hampshire 28  . .            28 

New    Mexico 8  8 

New  York 90  76           14 

North   Carolina 24  3           20              i 

North    Dakota 10  . .            10 

Ohio 48  14           34 

Oklahoma 20  4           16 

Oregon      10  5              i             4. 

Pennsylvania     76  12           64 

Rhode    Island 10  10 

South     Carolina 18  12             5              i 

South    Dakota 10  . .            10 

Tennessee 24  23             i 

Texas     49  29           10              i 

Utah 8  7              i 

Vermont 8  6              2 

Virginia 24  19              4              i 

Washington 14  14 

West  Virginia 16  ..             16 

Wisconsin 26  .  .            26 

Wyoming 6  6 

Alaska 2  2 

District    of    Columbia 2  2 

Hawaii 6  5             ..               i 

Philippine    Islands 2  2 

Porto    Rico 2  2 

Totals 1078  564          497            17 

So  Mr.  Watson's  motion  to  lay  on  the  table  the  motion  of  Mr.  Sulli- 
van, that  the  views  of  the  minority  be  substituted  for  the  majority  report, 
was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  now  is  on  the  adoption 

of  the  report  of  the  majority  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Convention  will  receive  a  further  re- 
port from  the  Committee  on  Credentials. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  197 

FIFTH  ARKANSAS  DISTRICT. 

MR.  O.  M.  LANSTRUM,  of  Montana. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  am  directed  by 
the  Committee  on  Credentials  to  submit  the  following  report  upon  the 
Fifth  Arkansas  district,  and  to  move  its  adoption. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  Montana  moves  the 
adoption  of  a  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  which  the  Secre- 
tary will  now  read  for  the  information  of  the  Convention. 

The  report  was  read  as  follows : 

The  Committee  on  Credentials  votes  to  seat  N.  V.  Burrow  and  S.  A. 
Jones  and  their  alternates  from  the  Fifth  Congressional  District  of  Ar- 
kansas. When  the  contest  from  the  Fifth  Arkansas  Congressional  District 
was  heard  before  the  National  Committee,  the  proposition  to  give  the  two 
contestants  of  each  party  a  half  of  a  vote  each  received  the  support  of 
only  ten  committeemen.  After  that  proposition  was  defeated,  there  was  a 
unanimous  vote  to  place  N.  V.  Burrow  and  S.  A.  Jones  on  the  Temporary 
Roll  of  the  Convention. 

This  contest  was  appealed  to  the  Committee,  and  N.  V.  Burrow  and 
S.  A.  Jones,  whose  seats  were  contested,  appeared  in  person  and  by  attor- 
ney before  the  Credentials  Committee  and  by  witnesses,  affidavits  and 
documents  established  the  following  facts : 

In  1908  a  contest  between  two  divisions  of  the  Republicans  of  the 
Fifth  Arkansas  Congressional  District  was  carried  before  the  Republican 
National  Committee.  These  factions  were  named  after  their  leaders,  "The 
Bratton  Faction"  and  "The  Redding  Faction."  The  National  Committee, 
after  hearing  the  testimony  in  this  contest,  seated  the  Bratton  Faction  by 
a  unanimous  vote.  The  other  faction  dropped  their  contest.  Accepting  the 
finality  of  this  decision  by  the  National  Committee,  the  Redding  Faction 
practically  ceased  to  perform  any  of  its  regular  functions,  and  did  not  hold 
an>r  other  meeting. 

The  Bratton  Faction,  after  this  decision,  became  the  undisputed  Repub- 
lican organization  in  the  Fifth  District  and  is  now  maintaining  an  active 
and  continuous  organization.  It  nominated  a  candidate  for  Congress  in 
1908  who  received  a  largely  increased  vote;  it  held  a  convention  in  1910 
and  nominated  a  candidate  for  Congress  and  elected  a  new  Congressional 
Committee.  This  Committee  in  1912  issued  a  call  for  a  Congressional 
Convention  to  be  held  in  Little  Rock  on  May  the  6th,  in  strict  conformity 
with  the  requirements  of  the  call  of  the  National  Republican  Committee. 
The  evidence  shows  that  of  57  delegates  entitled  under  this  call  to  sit  in 
this  District  or  Congressional  Convention,  53  delegates  were  present,  and 
that  S.  A.  Jones  and  N.  V.  Burrow  were  elected  as  delegates  to  the  Na- 
tional Republican  Convention,  with  instructions  to  vote  for  President  Taft. 
This  Convention  also  nominated  a  candidate  for  Congress  and  selected  a 
new  Congressional  Committee  to  serve  for  the  next  two  years. 

Evidence  was  introduced  conclusively  establishing  the   fact   that  the 


198  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 

delegates  composing  this  Congressional  Convention  were  fairly  elected  and 
duly  accredited  by  the  regular  and  lawful  Conventions  in  the  several  coun- 
ties of  the  district  and  that  these  delegates  sat  in  the  convention  through- 
out the  entire  proceedings. 

Further  evidence  introduced  on  both  sides  showed  that  the  Roose- 
velt men,  Holt  and  Cochran,  based  their  claims  to  seats  in  this  Conven- 
tion in  Chicago  upon  a  so-called  election  by  a  rump  convention  held  under 
the  direction  of  Sid  B.  Redding,  Clerk  of  the  Federal  Court  at  Little 
Rock,  and  that  Mr.  Redding,  who  was  the  unsuccessful  contestant  before 
the  National  Committee  four  years  ago,  and  whose  case  appears  to  be  no 
better  now,  held  this  rump  convention  under  no  authority  whatsoever. 
There  was  not  the  required  notice  of  publication,  and  the  only  claim  to 
existence  of  this  rump  convention  is  based  upon  a  four-day  notice  issued 
by  the  man  who  had  been  chairman  of  the  Congressional  Committee  that 
was  refused  recognition  by  the  National  Committee  in  1908.  And  further 
evidence  was  adduced  to  show  that  this  Congressional  Committee  since 
1908  had  no  existence.  Consequently  the  evidence  produced  by  Messrs. 
Holt  and  Cochran  as  to  fraud  and  violence,  which  they  allege  that  their 
opponents  used  in  order  to  control  the  county  conventions,  was  absolutely 
refuted  and  disproven.  Upon  these  facts  the  Committee  recommended  the 
seating  of  the  delegates  and  alternates  now  representing  the  Fifth  District 
of  Arkansas  upon  the  temporary  roll  of  this  Convention. 

MR.  HERBERT  S.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — At  the  request  of  the  minority 
members  of  the  Committee,  who  are  attending  to  other  duties,  I  present  a 
substitute  for  the  majority  report,  and  I  move  its  adoption. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  Missouri  (Mr.  Had- 
ley),  by  request  of  the  minority  members  of  the  Committee  on  Creden- 
tials, presents  the  views  of  the  minority,  which  will  now  be  read  by  the 
Secretary. 

The  views  of  the  minority  were  read  as  follows : 

"We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of  the 
National  Republican  Committee,  hereby  submit  the  following  report: 

"(1)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  members  of  the 
Committee  in  sitting  upon  and  participating  in  the  actions  of  the  Com- 
mittee, Mr.  J.  C.  Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas,  and 
Mr.  W.  T.  Dovell,  of  Washington,  for  the  reason  that  each  of  these  men 
was  elected  by  entire  delegations  whose  seats  are  contested. 

"(2)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  men,  Mr.  J.  C. 
Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas,  and  Mr.  W.  T.  Dovell, 
of  Washington,  from  participating  in  and  voting  upon  the  questions  in  any 
of  the  contests,  on  the  ground  that  they  are  in  effect  sitting  as  judges  in 
their  own  cases. 

"(3)  We  protest  against  Mr.  Thomas  H.  Devine,  of  Colorado;  Mr. 
Fred  W.  Estabrook,  of  New  Hampshire;  Mr.  Henry  Blun,  Jr..  of  Georgia; 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  199 

Mr.  L.  B.  Moseley,  of  Mississippi,  and  Mr.  L.  P.  Shackleford,  of  Alaska, 
sitting  as  members  of  this  committee,  for  the  reason  that  they  were  mem- 
bers of  the  National  Committee  and  participated  in  its  deliberations  and 
actions. 

"(4)  We  find  that  the  following  persons  reported  upon  by  the 
majority  of  members  of  this  Committee  are  not  entitled  to  seats  in  this 
Convention  and  should  not  be  placed  upon  its  permanent  roll : 

ARKANSAS. — FIFTH    DISTRICT. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

N.   B.   Burro,  O.    N.    Harkey, 

S.    A.   Jones.  S.   A.   Williams. 

"And  we  further  report  that  in  place  of  the  said  persons  the  following 
persons  were  duly  elected  and  are  legally  entitled  to  seats  in  this  Conven- 
tion and  should  be  seated  and  accredited  to  their  respective  states  and  dis- 
tricts, as  follows : 

ARKANSAS.— FIFTH    DISTRICT. 
Delegates. 

W.   S.   Holt,  And   Their  Alternates. 

H.    K.    Cochran, 

JOHN  BYRD  AVIS, 

HUGH    T.   HALBERT, 

HARRY    SHAW, 

JESSE  A.   TOLERTON,   Missouri; 

JESSE   M.   LIBBY,  Maine; 

CHARLES  H.   COWLES,  North   Carolina; 

CLENCY  ST.  CLAIR,  Idaho. 

W.   S.   LAUDER,   North   Dakota; 

D.  J.   MORTON,   Oklahoma. 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  move  to  lay  on 
the  table  the  motion  to  substitute  the  minority  for  the  majority  report. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  now  is  on  agreeing  to  the 
majority  report. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

FOURTH   CALIFORNIA  DISTRICT. 

MR.  W.  T.  DOVELL,  of  Washington. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  have  a  report 
from  the  Committee  on  Credentials  relative  to  the  contest  in  the  Fourth 
California  District,  and  I  will  ask  the  Secretary  to  read  it,  and  then  move 
its  adoption. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Secretary  will  read  the  report. 

The  Secretary  read  the  report  as  follows : 


200  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

The  committee  recommends  that  E.  H.  Tryon  and  Morris  Meyerfeld, 
Jr.,  of  the  Fourth  Congressional  District  of  California,  and  their  alternates 
be  transferred  from  the  temporary  roll  of  this  Convention  to  the  perma- 
nent roll.  The  following  facts  were  established : 

The  call  for  the  National  Republican  Convention  contained  the  fol- 
lowing clause : 

"Provided  that  delegates  and  alternates  both  from  the  state  at  large 
and  from  each  Congressional  District  may  be  elected  in  conformity  with 
the  laws  of  the  state  in  which  the  election  occurs  if  the  State  Committee 
or  any  such  Congressional  Committee  so  direct." 

The  section  closed  with  the  following  important  provision : 

"But,  provided  further  that  in  no  state  can  an  election  be  so  held  as  to 
prevent  the  delegates  from  any  Congressional  District  and  their  alternates 
being  selected  by  the  Republican  electors  of  that  district." 

The  primary  vote  in  this  Fourth  California  District  was  as  follows : 
E.  H.  Tryon,  10,570 ;  Morris  Meyerfeld,  Jr.,  10,531.  These  men  represented 
the  Taft  ticket.  Charles  S.  Wheeler  received  10,240  votes  and  Philip  Ban- 
croft 10,209,  representing  the  Roosevelt  ticket. 

On  the  direct  presidential  preference  vote  Taft  had  9,622  and  Roosevelt 
9,445. 

In  spite  of  the  fact  that  the  Taft  ticket  received  more  votes  in  the 
Fourth  District  than  the  Roosevelt  ticket,  the  Secretary  of  State  ignored 
the  rule  of  the  Republican  National  Committee,  recognizing  the  right  of 
Congressional  districts  to  be  represented  by  their  own  delegate,  and  is- 
sued certificates  of  election  to  the  twenty-six  Roosevelt  delegates  receiving 
the  highest  number  of  votes  in  the  state  at  large.  The  California  presi- 
dential election  law  provides  that  a  candidate  for  delegate  for  the  Na- 
tional Convention  may  sign  a  statement  binding  him  to  support  a  candi- 
date receiving  the  highest  number  of  votes  cast  throughout  the  State.  The 
Taft  delegates  did  not  sign  any  such  statement,  and  are  therefore  not 
bound  in  any  way  to  abide  by  the  state-wide  vote  of  California.  The  law 
itself  was  not  passed  until  after  the  meeting  of  the  National  Republican 
Committee.  It  was  approved  December  24,  1911. 

The  Republican  electors  in  the  Fourth  California  District  having  cast 
a  majority  of  their  votes  in  favor  of  the  Taft  delegates,  the  square  issue 
was  raised  in  the  case  as  to  the  right  of  the  state  to  pass  a  primary  law, 
which  would  in  effect  enforce  the  unit  rule.  The  committee  held  that  a 
state  law  could  not  supersede  the  call  of  the  National  Committee  as  di- 
rected by  the  Republican  National  Convention,  the  supreme  source  of  party 
regularity. 

MR.  HUGH  T.  HALBERT,  of  Minnesota. — Mr.  Chairman,  in  behalf  of  the 
minority  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  we  submit  the  following  report : 

"We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  of 
the  National  Republican  Committee,  hereby  submit  the  following  report : 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  201 

"We  protest  emphatically  against  the  tyrannical  overthrow  of  the  will 
of  the  people  of  California,  as  expressed  by  a  plurality  of  77,000  voters  at 
the  presidential  primary,  in  the  action  of  the  majority  of  the  members  of 
this  Credentials  Committee  in  placing  upon  the  permanent  roll  of  this 
Convention  the  names  of  : 

"E.  H.  Tyron  and  Maurice  Meyerfeld,  Jr.,  Fourth  District,  as  dele- 
gates from  California,  and  their  alternates. 

"We  further  report  that  in  place  of  the  said  persons  the  following 
persons  were  duly  elected  and  are  legally  entitled  to  seats  in  this  conven- 
tion and  should  be  seated  and  accredited  to  their  respective  States  and 
Districts,  as  follows: 

"California,  Fourth  District — Charles  S.  Wheeler,  Philip  Bancroft  and 
their  alternates. 

"Respectfully  submitted, 
"S.  X.  WAY,  South  Dakota. 
JESSE  M.  LJBBY,  Maine. 
D.  J.  MORTON,  Oklahoma. 

L.  H.  MITCHELL,  by  WM.  P.  YOUNG,  Pennsylvania. 
JOHN  J.  SULLIVAN,  Ohio. 
A.  V.  SWIFT. 
HUGH  T.  HATTORT. 

R.  R.  McCoRMiCK,  by  JOHN  E.  WILDER,  Illinois. 
R.  A.  HARRIS,  Kansas. 
JOHN  BOYD  OTIS. 
HARRY  SHAW,  West  Virginia. 
N.  S.  LANDER,  North  Dakota. 
FRANCIS  J.  HENEY." 

Men  of  this  National  Convention,  in  the  judgment  of  a  minority  of 
the  Credentials  Committee,  a  more  flagrant  denial  of  justice  has  never 
been  perpetrated.  It  is  a  deliberate  attempt  to  thwart  the  will  of  the 
people. 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of 
the  Convention,  I  desire  to  make  a  motion  in  regard  to  this  contest, 
coupled  with  a  request.  You  have  heard  the  majority  and  minority  reports 
from  the  Committee  on  Credentials.  I  now  move  to  lay  on  the  table  the 
motion  of  the  minority,  to  substitute  the  minority  report  for  the  majority 
report,  but  pending  that,  on  account  of  the  principle  involved  in  this  con- 
test, ask  that  before  my  motion  is  put  twenty  minutes  on  each  side  be 
given  for  discussion. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  the  gen- 
tleman from  Indiana  asks  unanimous  consent  that  before  putting  his  mo- 
tion to  table  an  opportunity  be  allowed  for  debate ;  and  by  an  understand- 
ing which  had  been  reached  by  the  floor  leaders  on  both  sides,  subject 


202  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

to  the  action  of  the  Convention,  it  is  agreed  that  there  be  twenty  min- 
utes on  each  side  for  debate  on  this  question.  Is  there  objection? 

MR.  JAMES  W.  MERCUR,  of  Pennsylvania. — I  object. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Objection  is  made,  and  consent  is  not 
given. 

MR.  MERCUR,  of  Pennsylvania. — Mr.  Chairman,  at  the  request  of  some 
members  of  my  delegation  I  withdraw  the  objection. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  objection  is  withdrawn,  and  con- 
sent is  given.  The  debate  will  now  proceed.  The  time  in  behalf  of  the 
majority  report  will  be  controlled  by  the  gentleman  from  New  York 
(Mr.  Payne),  and  the  time  on  behalf  of  the  minority  will  be  controlled 
by  the  gentleman  from  Missouri  (Mr.  Hadley). 

MR.  HERBERT  S.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — Mr.  Chairman,  it  has  been  the 
intention  of  Governor  Johnson,  of  California,  and  Mr.  Francis  J.  Heney, 
of  that  State,  to  present  the  argument  in  support  of  the  minority  report 
of  the  Committee  on  Credentials.  Governor  Johnson  is  unavoidably 
sent  from  the  hall,  and  I  now  yield  to  Mr.  Francis  J.  Heney,  of  the  State 
of  California,  who  will  open  the  argument  on  behalf  of  the  minority  re- 
port. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  recognizes  the  gentleman 
from  California  (Mr.  Heney). 

MR.  FRANCIS  J.  HENEY,  of  California. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen 
of  the  Convention,  the  question  involved  in  this  case  is  one  which  goes  to 
the  very  root  of  self-government.  It  involves  directly  the  question  whether 
or  not  the  people  of  a  sovereign  State  of  this  nation  are  entitled  to  decide 
for  themselves  how  they  shall  select  their  delegates  to  a  National  Con- 
vention. On  top  of  that  is  the  further  proposition  that  if  the  State  has 
passed  a  law  under  which  it  has  directed  how  delegates  to  a  National 
Convention  from  that  State  shall  be  selected,  and  if  each  one  of  the  fac- 
tions of  a  political  party  submits  to  the  State  law  and  puts  to  the  test 
the  question  whether  or  not  that  particular  faction  is  entitled  to  represent 
the  Republicans  of  the  State  in  the  National  Convention;  and  if  in  sub- 
mitting to  that  test  these  gentlemen  have  made  affidavits  that  they  do  so 
submit  themselves  to  that  test;  and  if  in  order  to  submit  themselves  to  the 
test  of  that  State-wide  vote  it  is  necessary  for  them  under  this  affidavit 
to  declare  that  they  prefer  a  certain  man  for  candidate  for  President ;  and 
if  otherwise  it  is  impossible  under  the  State  law  to  get  upon  the  ticket; 
and  if  the  State  law  further  provides  that  it  is  necessary  for  the  man 
for  whom  they  have  expressed  their  preference  himself  to  go  on  record 
as  endorsing  their  application  to  be  candidates  as  a  group  for  him,  and 
submit  themselves  to  a  State-wide  vote,  and  if  the  man  who  has  done 
that  is  already  the  President  of  the  United  States,  and  if  after  doing 
that  the  State-wide  vote  is  77,000  majority  against  him,  can  he  crawl  out 
of  that  public  pledge  and  agreement  by  which  he  has  submitted  himself 


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to  the  people,  and  that  sovereign  State  be  robbed  of  its  right  of  represen- 
tation. (Applause.) 

For  forty  years  the  State  of  California  was  governed  absolutely,  just 
like  Pennsylvania  and  Colorado,  by  corrupt  political  machines,  owned  and 
operated  by  railroads.  (Applause.)  Two  years  ago  the  people  of  Cali- 
fornia achieved  their  independence,  and  they  wrote  their  declaration  of  in- 
dependence into  the  State  Constitution  with  the  initiative,  the  referendum 
and  the  recall.  Such  things  as  those  startle  distinguished  gentlemen  like 
the  one  who  presides  over  this  Convention,  and  strike  them  as  being  revo- 
lutionary. Such  legislation  as  that  startles  men  like  Big  Steve,  of  Colo- 
rado " ." 

MR.  WILLIAM  S.  VARE,  of  Pennsylvania. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  rise  to  a 
point  of  order. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  will  state  his  point  of 
order. 

MR.  VARE,  of  Pennsylvania. — As  a  delegate  from  Pennsylvania  I  wish 
to  ask  that  the  gentleman  confine  himself  to  the  question. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  is  of  the  opinion  that  the 
speaker  has  not  yet  overstepped  the  line,  where  he  can  be  called  to  order. 

MR.  HENEY,  of  California. — The  pretense  upon  which  this  action  is 
sought  to  be  justified  is  stated  in  the  majority  report  to  be  that  the  Cali- 
fornia presidential  election  law  has  an  optional  provision  in  it  that  the 
delegates  may  pledge  themselves  or  not,  as  they  see  fit,  to  vote  for  the 
candidate  who  receives  the  majority  of  the  votes  of  the  State  in  the  pref- 
erential vote,  and  that  these  men  did  not  sign  such  an  affidavit.  That  is 
true,  but  that  does  not  meet  the  question  involved.  The  proposition  is 
this :  Those  men  under  the  law  of  California  could  not  have  been  placed 
upon  the  ticket  at  all  for  the  purpose  of  being  balloted  for  except 
they  made  affidavits  that  they  submitted  themselves  in  accordance  with 
the  law  of  the  State  of  California,  and  each  and  every  one  of  them,  in- 
cluding Mr.  Tryon  and  Mr.  Meyerfeld— who  have  not  dared  to  sit  in  their 
seats  with  the  California  delegation,  but  have  been  up  here  in  the  vest- 
pocket  of  somebody  upon  this  platform — made  affidavits  that  they  sub- 
mitted themselves  to  the  State-wide  vote,  and  they  could  only  get  on 
the  ticket  by  doing  that.  Then  they  could  not  get  on  the  ticket,  mark 
you,  until  after  President  Taft  had  endorsed  that  affidavit,  had  endorsed 
their  application  to  go  on  the  ticket,  and  if  President  Taft  now  accepts  the 
vote  of  those  two  men  (Tryon  and  Meyerfeld)  in  this  Convention  he  will 
be  guilty  of  high  treason.  (Applause.) 

But  it  is  claimed  that,  after  having  submitted  to  a  State-wide  vote, 
after  having  been  defeated  as  a  group  by  77,000  majority,  yet  notwith- 
standing these  facts,  these  two  men  in  the  Fourth  District  received  a  higher 
vote  than  the  Roosevelt  delegates. 

I  filed  here  with  the  National  Committee  the  certificates  of  the  Secre- 


204  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

tary  of  State,  and  of  the  Registrar  of  the  City  of  San  Francisco,  stating 
that  no  man  on  earth  can  tell  who  did  receive  the  highest  vote  in  the 
Fourth  District,  because  the  new  law,  creating  the  new  district,  had  pro- 
vided that  the  election  should  be  held  under  the  old  precinct  registers, 
and  consequently  fourteen  precincts,  involving  1,685  votes,  in  which  the 
Roosevelt  delegates  received  a  majority  of  more  than  100  votes,  are  so 
located  on  both  sides  of  that  line  that  it  is  impossible  to  tell  what  part 
of  the  1,685  votes  were  cast  for  Taft  delegates  and  what  part  were 
cast  for  Roosevelt  delegates  within  the  Fourth  District.  But  there  were 
about  20,000  votes  cast  in  that  district,  and  take  the  two  districts,  the 
Fourth  and  Fifth  Congressional  districts  together,  and  the  Roosevelt  dele- 
gates had  a  majority  of  more  than  3,000  votes  over  the  Taft  delegates. 
(Applause.) 

Gentlemen,  that  is  absolutely  all  there  is  to  this  case.  That  is  abso- 
lutely all  that  is  claimed  here  as  a  reason  for  seating  these  delegates. 
These  certificates  are  here,  ready  for  every  man's  inspection,  showing  that 
it  is  absolutely  impossible  for  any  man  on  earth,  with  the  exception  of  the 
38  members  who  constitute  the  majority  of  the  National  Committee,  and 
the  34  or  33  members  who  constitute  the  majority  of  the  present  Creden- 
tials Committee,  made  up  in  part  of  men  whose  seats  have  likewise  been 
stolen — I  say  with  the  exception  of  those  few  men,  the  certificates  of  the 
Secretary  of  State  of  California  and  the  Registrar  of  San  Francisco 
are  to  the  effect,  and  their  affidavits  are  to  the  effect  that  no  man  on  earth 
(other  than  those  men,  of  course,  was  implied  in  the  certificate,  and  the 
Secretary  of  State  and  the  Registrar  did  not  know  that  those  men 
knew)  can  tell  who  had  a  majority,  but  if  anybody  had,  it  is  not  Mr; 
Tryon,  because  there  is  also  the  affidavit  of  the  Registrar  and  of  the  Secre- 
tary of  State  that  fourteen  other  men  on  the  Taft  ticket  had  higher  votes 
than  Mr.  Tryon  had.  (Applause.) 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  New  York  (Mr. 
Payne)  is  recognized. 

MR.  SERENO  E.  PAYNE,  of  New  York. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen 
of  the  Convention,  I  desire  a  patient  hearing  of  what  I  have  to  say  upon 
this  case,  and  I  shall  try  not  to  travel  out  of  the  record,  even  to  follow 
the  gentleman  from  California  (Mr.  Heney),  except  in  one  single  instance. 
He  asks  why  these  two  gentlemen  are  not  sitting  among  the  California 
delegates.  I  am  informed  that  the  chairman  of  the  California  delegation, 
Governor  Johnson,  took  the  tickets  for  those  delegates  and  deposited  them, 
not  in  his  own  pocket,  but  in  the  pockets  of  the  two  gentlemen  who  have 
no  right  to  a  seat  here  under  the  report  of  the  Committee. 

The  gentleman  tried  to  befog  this  question  by  the  assertion,  entirely 
out  of  the  record,  that  those  two  gentlemen  who  claim  these  seats,  and 
were  seated  by  the  National  Committee,  have  no  right  here  because  they 
did  not  receive  a  majority  of  the  votes  in  that  district. 


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I  have  here  a  copy  of  the  report  made  by  the  majority  of  that  com- 
mittee, and  signed  by  the  majority  members,  in  which  the  fact  is  stated 
that  the  Taft  delegates  received  respectively  10,507  votes  and  10,531  votes 
in  this  district,  while  the  Roosevelt  delegates  received  10,240  and  10,209. 

MR.  HIRAM  W.  JOHNSON,  of  California. — There  is  absolutely  no  evi- 
dence of  that. 

MR.  PAYNE,  of  New  York. — There  was  evidence  of  it,  gentlemen.  The 
evidence  was  filed,  and  no  pretended  evidence  to  the  contrary  ever  came 
into  the  newspapers  even,  until  these  gentlemen  saw  that  they  were  de- 
feated by  the  law  of  National  Republican  conventions.  (Noise  and  dis- 
order.) 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  the  dele- 
gates who  are  refusing  to  this  speaker  the  same  courtesy  that  was  shown 
to  Mr.  Heney  may  rest  assured  that  no  Republican  National  Convention 
was  ever  won  to  a  cause  by  drowning  either  side  of  a  question.  (Ap- 
plause.) 

MR.  PAYNE,  of  New  York. — Gentlemen,  I  propose  to  occupy  twenty 
minutes  on  this  question,  even  if  you  take  four  hours  trying  to  drown 
my  voice.  (Applause.)  The  question  here  is  whether  the  law  of  the  sov- 
ereign State  of  California  shall  control  the  national  law  of  Republican 
conventions,  and  that  is  the  only  question  in  this  case. 

When  the  first  Republican  convention  was  called  in  1856,  the  call  was 
for  six  delegates  at  large  from  each  State  and  three  from  each  Congres- 
sional district,  recognizing  the  right  of  a  district  to  be  represented,  not 
only  by  the  votes  in  that  district,  but  by  gentlemen  living  in  the  district, 
selected  by  the  district  as  their  representatives  in  the  Republican  conven- 
tion. The  Republican  party  vyas  not  founded  on  the  idea  of  States  rights 
overriding  every  other  right  in  this  country.  (Applause.) 

The  call  of  1860  followed,  and  finally,  in  1880,  the  Republican  conven- 
tion took  up  this  question,  and  after  full  and  long  debate  they  settled  it, 
and  settled  it  forever. 

The  State  of  Illinois  sent  here  a  delegation  selected  by  the  conven- 
tion of  the  State  of  Illinois.  Some  half  dozen  of  the  districts  met  and 
selected  delegates  from  their  own  districts.  There  was  a  contest  before 
the  Committee  on  Contested  Seats,  as  there  was  a  contest  preliminary 
before  the  National  Committee,  and  there  was  a  report  upon  it.  The 
precedents  were  given  at  great  length.  The  debate  was  full  and  able, 
from  the  beginning  to  the  end,  nnd  they  finally  reported,  seating  every 
delegate  from  a  Congressional  district  as  against  the  delegates  elected 
by  a  State  convention.  (Applause.) 

But  they  went  further  than  that.     They  had  a  report  on  rules.     They 
brought  in  a   rule  to  which  Mr.   Boutwell,  of  Massachusetts,  offered  an 
amendment,  which  provided  : 
"Said  committee 


206  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

"The  National  Committee 

"Shall,  within  the  next  twelve  months,  prescribe  a  method  or  methods 
for  the  election  of  delegates  to  the  National  Convention  to  be  held  in 
1884;  announce  the  same  to  the  country,  and  issue  a  call  for  that  Conven- 
vention  in  conformity  therewith." 

MR.  BUTTERWORTH,  of  Ohio,  then  moved  an  amendment : 

"I  move  to  amend  the  amendment  of  the  gentleman  from  Massachu- 
setts by  adding  the  following  words : 

"  'Provided  that  nothing  in  the  method  or  rule  so  prescribed  shall  be 
so  construed  as  to  prevent  the  several  districts  of  the  United  States 
from  selecting  their  own  delegates  to  the  National  Convention.' " 

"\Yhat  was  done  with  this  rule?     Mr.  Boutwell  said: 

"I  accept  that  amendment. 

''The  PRESIDENT. — The  gentleman  from  Massachusetts  accepts  the 
modification  of  his  amendment,  and  now  moves  to  amend  by  adding  to  the 
tenth  rule  as  the  Secretary  will  read. 

"The  Secretary  then  read  as   follows : 

"  'Said  Committee  shall,  within  the  next  twelve  months,  prescribe 
a  method  or  methods  for  the  election  of  delegates  to  the  National  Con- 
vention to  be  held  in  1884;  announce  the  same  to  the  country,  and  issue 
a  call  for  that  Convention  in  conformity  therewith :  Provided,  that  such 
methods  or  rules  shall  include  and  secure  to  the  several  Congressional 
districts  in  the  United  States  the  right  to  elect  their  own  delegates  to 
the  National  Convention.' 

"The  PRESIDENT. — The  question  is  upon  the  amendment  moved  by 
the  gentleman  from  Massachusetts,  which  has  been  read. 

"MR.  GARFIELD  (of  Ohio,  Chairman  of  the  Ccmmittee). — Of  course  I 
have  no  authority  on  behalf  of  my  committee  to  accept  this  amendment. 
For  myself  I  cheerfully  accept  it,  and  I  hope  it  will  be  adopted  without 
dissent. 

"The   amendment   was   agreed   to." 

And  the  report  was  adopted  without  a  roll  call  on  a  viva  voce  vote, 
no  one  voting  against  it.  The  Convention  afterward  nominated  Garfield 
for  President  of  the  United  States.  Thus  the  rule  was  enacted  into  the 
written  law  for  a  National  Republican  convention,  that  the  Congressional 
districts  should  be  represented  and  represented  by  delegates  of  their  own 
choosing.  Such  has  been  the  law  of  Republican  conventions  from  that 
day  to  this.  Where  a  district  has  not  elected  delegates  and  the  Conven- 
tion of  the  State  has  elected  delegates  for  that  district  those  delegates 
have  been  accepted.  But  the  exception  only  proves  the  rule. 

The  rule  of  the  National  Convention  of  the  Republican  party  differs, 
I  wish  to  say  to  the  gentleman  from  California,  from  the  rule  prevail- 
ing in  the  Democratic  Convention.  Not  only  in  California,  but  in  my 
own  State  the  Democratic  State  Convention  selects  all  the  delegates 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  207 

from  that  State,  and  selects  them  in  a  peculiar  way,  by  a  peculiar  method, 
so  that  they  shall  either  voluntarily  vote  uniformly,  or  by  the  invocation 
of  the  unit  rule  all  the  delegates  elected  from  that  State  shall  be  com- 
pelled to  vote  as  a  unit.  That  is  the  difference  in  this  particular  between 
Republicanism  and  Democracy.  (Applause.)  We  say  the  district  shall 
be  allowed  to  choose  its  own  delegates  and  send  them  here. 

Why  was  this  California  law  passed,  gentlemen  of  the  Convention? 
They  were  afraid  Taft  would  get  a  certain  number  of  districts  and  La 
Follette  would  get  a  certain  number  of  districts,  and  this  law  was 
forced  through  the  legislature  to  prevent  that.  The  facts  were  stated 
in  the  public  prints  in  California  and  not  contradicted,  not  even  by  the 
Governor,  and  so  this  law  was  passed. 

They  talk  about  77,000  majority  in  the  State.  The  State  of  Pennsyl- 
vania sometimes  gives  500,000  majority  for  the  Republican  party,  and  yet 
with  this  majority  of  a  half  a  million  there  are  some  Congressional  dis- 
tricts in  that  State  represented  in  the  House  of  Representatives  by  Demo- 
cratic representatives,  in  accordance  with  the  will  of  the  majority  of  the 
people  of  those  several  districts.  (Applause.) 

The  Republican  law  in  regard  to  representation  in  convention  corre- 
sponds with  the  National  law  in  regard  to  representation  in  Congress. 
Why  should  not  the  districts  be  represented  in  National  convention? 

MR.  MEYER  LISNER,  of  California. — Why  do  you  not  elect  your  presi- 
dential electors  that  way? 

MR.  PAYNE,  of  New  York. — The  Republican  Convention  cannot  con- 
trol the  election  of  electors  of  a  President  of  the  United  States. 

Following  that  custom  and  that  precedent  the  last  National  Con- 
vention issued  its  call  for  the  convention,  a  copy  of  which  I  have  here: 
"The  Congressional  district  delegates  shall  be  elected  by  con- 
ventions called  by  the  Republican  Congressional  Committee  of  each 
district,  of  which  at  least  thirty  days'  notice  shall  have  been  pub- 
lished in  some  newspaper  or  newspapers  of  general  circulation  in  the 
district;  provided  that  in  any  Congressional  district  where  there  is 
no  Republican  Congressional  Committee,  the  Republican  State  Com- 
mittee shall  be  substituted  for  and  represent  the  Congressional  Com- 
mittee in  issuing  said  call  and  making  said  publication ;  and,  provided 
that  delegates  or  their  alternates  shall  be  deemed  ineligible  to  partici- 
pate in  State  or  District  or  Territorial  convention  who  were  elected 
prior  to  the  date  of  the  adoption  of  this  call ;  and,  provided  that  dele- 
gates and  alternates,  both  from  the  State  at  large  and  from  each 
Congressional  district,  may  be  elected  in  conformity  with  the  laws  of 
the  State  in  which  the  election  occurs  if  the  State  Committee  or  any 
such  Congressional  Committee  so  direct ;  but,  provided  further  that  in 
no  State  shall  an  election  be  so  held  as  to  prevent  the  delegates  from 
any  Congressional  district  and  their  alternates  being  selected  by  the 


208  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

Republican  electors  of  that   district." 

That  is  the  call  under  which  this  Convention  has  assembled.  That 
call  is  in  conformity  with  all  the  precedents  since  1880.  It  is  the  same  as 
that  at  the  birth  of  the  Republican  party.  That  is  National  Republican 
law,  and  no  State  can  interfere  with  it  or  in  any  way  infringe  upon  it. 
And  so  when  you  vote  to  seat  these  two  gentlemen  from  the  Fourth  Dis- 
trict of  California  you  are  giving  that  district  the  right  to  be  represented, 
and  it  is  not  affected  by  the  size  of  the  majority  in  the  State  at  large. 
You  give  it  to  the  district  where  it  belongs. 

I  appeal  to  you  gentlemen  to  recognize  Republican  law,  to  recognize 
Republicanism,  the  Republicanism  of  the  best  period  of  America  and  of 
American  history.  I  appeal  to  you  to  stand  by  the  time-honored  doc- 
trine for  which  Republicans  have  fought  against  the  principles  of  the 
Democratic  party;  that  is,  that  the  Congressional  districts  shall  be  repre- 
sented by  two  delegates  and  the  State  at  large  by  the  other  four. 

Gentlemen,  if  you  do  that  you  will  be  recognizing  Republicanism. 
You  will  be  dealing  out  justice  to  the  Fourth  District  of  California, 
which  demands  to  be  heard  and  has  a  right  to  be  heard  here  by  two  dele- 
gates elected  by  a  majority  of  the  people  of  that  district.  (Applause.) 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — Gentlemen  of  the  Convention, 
the  question  before  us  is  one  that  affects  a  principle ;  and  be- 
cause of  that  fact,  in  the  few  moments  I  have,  I  want  to  state  the) 
proposition  as  briefly  as  I  may : 

"In  California  at  a  preferential  primary  a  majority  of  the  Republicans 
of  that  State  voted  for  Roosevelt  delegates.  In  the  Fourth  Congressional 
district  of  that  State  at  the  same  preferential  primary  a  majority  of  the 
Republican  voters  of  that  district  voted  for  Taft  delegates  to  this  Con- 
vention." 

A  DELEGATE. — There  is  absolutely  no  evidence  of  it. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — Does  the  gentleman  deny  that  general  prop- 
osition? All  I  have  as  authority  for  my  statement  is  the  certificate  of  the 
Registrar,  giving  the  vote,  which  was  filed  as  evidence  before  the  National 
Committee,  and  which  has  not  been  disputed  in  the  Convention  up  to  this 
time. 

MR.  CLINTON  L.  WHITE,  of  California. — It  was  withdrawn  by  him.  He 
revoked  that. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  take  the  evidence  that  was  submitted  to 
the  National  Committee.  I  have  no  other  evidence  on  which  to  base 
my  assertion.  If  the  Registrar  did  not  understand  his  business,  or  if  he 
made  a  false  certificate,  I  am  not  to  blame.  But  I  do  know  that  before 
the  National  Committee  it  was  never  denied  that  the  Taft  delegates  re- 
ceived a  majority  in  the  Fourth  Congressional  district.  (Applause.) 

Gentlemen,  the  question  is  this :  Shall  the  vote  of  the  State  con- 
trol the  election  of  the  delegates  in  the  district,  or  shall  the  vote  in  the 


HOX.    FRED   \V.    UPHAM,   of   Chicago. 
Chairman    of    the    Local    Committee    on    Arrangements. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  209 

district  control?  Shall  the  majority  down  at  Los  Angeles,  however  great 
it  may  be,  determine  the  character  of  the  delegates  in  San  Francisco 
elected  by  a  majority  the  other  way?  (Cries  of.  "No,  no!") 

Now,  gentlemen,  that  is  the  question. 

"And,  provided  that  delegates  and  alternates,  both  from  the  State 
at  large  and  from  each  Congressional  District,  may  be  elected  in  con- 
formity with  the  laws  of  the  State  in  which  the  election  occurs,  if  the 
State  Committee  or  any  such  Congressional  Committee  so  direct;  but, 
provided  further,  that  in  no  State  shall  an  election  be  so  held  as  to  pre- 
vent the  delegates  from  any  Congressional  district  and  their  alternates 
being  selected  by  the  Republican  electors  of  that  district." 

That  is  fundamental  law.  The  unit  rule  has  not  obtained  in  Republi- 
can conventions  in  the  past,  and  the  unit  rule  ought  not  to  obtain  in  the 
Republican  conventions  of  the  future.  (Applause.)  I  plead  for  the  right 
of  every  district  to  name  its  own  delegates  in  accordance  with  the  will 
of  the  people  of  that  district. 

Our  friends  held  a  primary.  They  wanted  to  get  near  the  people,  and 
in  coming  near  the  people  it  was  the  people  of  the  Congressional  district 
concerned  who  should  have  the  right  to  determine  who  should  represent 
them  in  a  national  convention,  and  it  was  not  the  people  in  the  other  dis- 
tricts of  the  State,  who  should  determine  upon  the  delegates  to  represent 
the  people  of  the  Fourth  Congressional  district. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  this  contention  of  Mr.  Heney  is  but 
another  manner  of  saying  that  the  unit  rule  shall  prevail,  and  a  unit  rule 
by  primaries  is  no  better  than  a  unit  rule  by  a  convention  or  in  any  other 
method.  It  is  the  right  of  the  people,  a  sovereign  right,  to  say  how  their 
own  delegates  shall  be  elected. 

We  do  not  believe  in  the  doctrine  of  State  sovereignty. 

My  friend  calls  the  State  a  sovereign  State.  In  a  Republican  conven- 
tion a  State  is  not  sovereign  in  the  matter  of  Congressional  districts  in 
the  selection  of  delegates  to  that  convention.  (Applause.) 

Mr.  HIRAM  W.  JOHNSON,  of  California. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentle- 
men of  the  Convention,  the  question  involved  in  this  particular  contest 
far  transcends  in  importance  the  seating  of  two  particular  men,  and  is 
far  greater  in  its  consequences  than  the  mere  determination  by  a  Com- 
mittee on  Credentials,  on  even  by  this  Convention,  of  a  contest  over  two 
particular  seats.  The  question  at  issue  here  strikes  at  the  very  funda- 
mental right  of  a  sovereign  State;  and  it  strikes,  my  friends,  too,  at  the 
very  rock  upon  which  Republican  progressivism  is  founded  in  the  United 
States.  (Applause.)  This  question  now  before  you  is  a  question,  in 
short,  the  question  that  is  ours  in  the  battle  to-day  and  in  the  days  to 
come  till  November — shall  the  people  rule?  (Applause.)  That  is  the 
question.  While  my  friends  from  New  York  may  deride  the  present  pro- 
gressive policies  tliat  have  come  like  a  giant  out  of  the  west,  every  man 


210  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

who  thinks  to-day  recognizes  that  the  revolution  is  on  in  this  country 
and  progressivism  is  sure  to  triumph.  (Applause.)  The  struggle  for  a 
direct  primary  is  abroad  on  the  part  of  all  who  believe  in  political  free- 
dom, east  and  west,  north  and  south,  in  order  that  the  people  may 
choose  their  delegates  rather  than  that  those  delegates  be  chosen  by 
the  bosses  in  any  political  convention.  (Applause.)  And  that  question, 
that  struggle,  must  not  be  lightly  determined  by  any  body  of  men  or  by 
any  political  convention  that  sits  in  any  partisanship  name  in  this  country 
to-day. 

Direct  primaries,  the  people's  rule,  the  fundamental  idea  of  progres- 
sivism in  those  matters  which  are  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  people 
themselves,  and  which  mean  for  their  political  advancement  or  their 
political  welfare,  are  all  involved  in  the  California  contest  as  presented  to 
yon  for  determination  now.  Their  triumph,  and  that  within  a  brief  period, 
is  as  certain  as  that  night  follows  day.  Nothing  better  demonstrates  the 
absolute  necessity  for  primaries  of  that  character  than  the  scenes  you 
have  witnessed — the  criminations  and  recriminations  to  which  you  have 
listened  in  this  Convention  within  the  last  three  days. 

In  California  in  1910  we  had  a  political  revolution.  We  had  a  revo- 
lution that  determined  that  the  people  there  should  for  themselves,  by 
the  initiative  and  the  referendum  and  the  direct  primary,  decide  exactly 
what  they  wished  to  determine  in  matters  within  their  province;  and 
when  that  revolution  occurred  there  was  a  particular  part  of  the  Republi- 
can party  in  charge  of  the  organization  in  that  State.  By  that  revolu- 
tion the  progressive  wing  of  the  Republican  party  obtained  an  organiza- 
tion within  the  State  of  California.  In  1911 — and  I  impress  this  upon  you 
gentlemen  from  New  York — this  progressive  wing  of  the  Republican 
party  had  the  right  and  the  power,  under  the  law  that  had  become  its 
by  inheritance  from  the  old  machine,  to  send  26  delegates  to  this  Conven- 
tion, chosen  as  they  desired,  and  to  vote  just  as  the  progressive  wing  of 
the  Republican  party  desired  them  to  vote.  But  in  December,  1911,  a  spe- 
cial session  of  the  legislature  of  the  State  of  California  was  called,  for 
the  purpose  of  enacting  a  presidential  primary  bill,  because  the  pro- 
gressives of  California,  just  like  the  progressives  elsewhere  in  the  Union, 
are  big  enough  to  be  just  and  big  enough  to  do  to  their  political  opponents 
as  you  are  not  big  enough  and  just  enough  to  do  towards  the  progressives. 
(Applause.) 

In  December,  1911,  at  that  special  session  of  the  legislature,  and  with- 
out its  being  included  in  the  call — as  those  who  are  familiar  with  the  mat- 
ter may  know,  the  subject  could  not  have  been  considered — the  progressive 
legislature  of  California  passed  its  presidential  primary  law  at  the  behest 
and  entreaty  and  prayer  of  the  reactionary  Republicans  of  our  State. 
They  passed  it  unanimously,  every  man  in  the  legislature,  whether  he  was 
a  Democrat,  Republican,  progressive  or  a  reactionary,  voted  for  it,  all 


'FIFTEENTH  REPUBLICAN  NATIONAL  CONVENTION.         211 

agreeing  upon  the  terms  of  the  law,  and  all  agreeing  upon  every  pro- 
vision that  is  in  controversy  to-day.  Thereafter,  without  question,  the 
machinery  of  that  law  was  put  into  effect  in  the  State  of  California, 
and  we  went  forward  to  our  presidential  primary.  When  we  met 
afterward  in  that  presidential  preference  primary  every  candidate  for 
President  subscribed  to  it,  and  filed  with  the  Secretary  of  State  of  Cali- 
fornia notice  of  his  desire  to  proceed  under  that  law  and  to  do  exactly 
as  that  law  provides,  absolutely  and  unequivocally.  The  statement  of  the 
present  President  of  the  United  States  is  on  file  in  the  office  of  the  Secre- 
tary of  State  of  California,  accepting  the  26  delegates,  as  the  delegates 
are  voted  for  in  a  group  under  the  law  of  the  State  of  California. 

The  representatives  of  the  various  candidates  went  directly  before 
the  people  and  presented  to  the  people  of  our  State  pleas  in  behalf  of 
their  respective  presidential  candidates.  No  man  objected,  no  matter  what 
he  was  or  to  what  faction  he  belonged ;  all  acquiesced,  and  if  there  be 
any  such  thing  as  the  principle  of  estoppel,  the  President  of  the  United 
States  is  estopped  to  contest  a  single  delegate  from  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia. (Applause.  )  As  you  learned,  subsequently  in  the  election  the  re- 
sult was  a  victory  for  the  progressive  wing  of  the  party  there  by  77,000 
majority. 

These  gentlemen  contend  that  in  a  certain  district  in  San  Francisco 
there  were  more  votes  cast  for  Taft  delegates  than  for  Roosevelt  dele- 
gates. It  was  not  so.  It  is  absolutely  and  unqualifiedly  untrue,  and  there  is 
the  affidavit  of  the  Registrar  of  voters  in  San  Francisco  declaring  it  is  an 
absolute  impossibility  for  any  statement  of  that  sort  to  be  made,  and  that 
it  cannot  be  made,  because  there  were  16  precincts  in  two  districts  where 
the  boundary  lines  had  been  changed,  and  the  poll  was  held  under  the 
old  voting  lists,  rendering  it  impossible  to  determine  the  vote  in  each  par- 
ticular district. 

On  the  question  of  fact  there  is  no  dispute.  On  the  question  of  law 
there  can  be  no  dispute. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  time  of  the  gentleman  has  expired. 

MR.  PARSONS,  of  New  York. — I  ask  unanimous  consent  that  Governor 
Johnson  be  allowed  to  conclude  his  remarks. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Unanimous  consent  is  asked  that  the 
Governor  of  California  be  allowed  to  proceed  with  his  remarks.  For 
how  long? 

MR.  JOHNSON,  of  California. — Five  minutes. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Governor  says  five  minutes. 

MR.  Louis  N.  HAMMERLING.  of  New  York. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  have  a 
statement  which  is  most  important  to  my  people.  The  Governor  of  Cali- 
fornia has  included  "revolution"  in  his  speech,  and  we  do  not  want  that. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Is  there  objection  to  the  Governor  pro- 
ceeding for  five  minutes  further?  The  Chair  hears  none. 


212  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE 

MR.  JOHNSON,  of  California. — The  credentials  of  the  delegates  from 
California  to  this  Convention  are  issued  by  the  Secretary  of  State  of  Cali- 
fornia. The  Secretary  of  State  in  a  statement  to  the  National  Commit- 
tee, which  I  assume  was  filed  with  that  committee,  but  which  is  at  hand, 
if  you  require  it,  states,  just  as  the  Registrar  of  San  Francisco  says,  that 
it  is  by  no  means  a  fact  that  a  majority  or  plurality  of  the  vote  in  the 
Fourth  Congressional  District  was  received  by  the  gentlemen  who  are 
contesting  on  this  particular  motion. 

I  wish  that  time  permitted  me  to  elaborate  that,  but  before  you  is  the 
question  of  fact.  There  is  the  evidence,  and  the  facts,  too,  are  there. 
There  is  a  question  of  law,  and  there  is  a  question  of  good  faith.  The 
question  is,  when  a  man  submits  himself  to  the  arbitrament  of  a  cer- 
tain tribunal,  shall  he  abide  by  the  decision  of  that  particular  tribunal? 
In  this  instance  the  President  of  the  United  States  submitted  himself,  over 
his  own  signature,  to  the  determination  under  this  law  by  that  tribunal. 
But  above  and  beyond  all  that  is  the  sovereign  right  which  a  great 
State  has,  to  pass  laws  upon  a  specific  and  particular  subject,  a  right  that 
every  court  in  the  United  States  now  decides  is  within  the  province  and 
power  of  a  State,  and  a  right  which  no  mere  moribund  committee  can 
take  from  it  under  any  circumstances. 

And  beyond  all  that  is  the  basic  principle  of  the  direct  primary,  an 
assault  upon  which  is  made  in  this  contest.  That  principle  of  popular 
rule  has  been  discussed  all  up  and  do\Vn  this  country  during  the  past  two 
months  of  the  campaign  for  the  presidential  nomination — a  principle  that 
has  been  accomplished  to  the  extent  that  never  again  will  you  see  a  con- 
vention sit  in  national  matters  as  this  Convention  has  been  sitting,  or 
listen  as  this  Convention  has  been  listening,  but  four  years  from  now  in 
every  convention  that  sits  in  this  land  you  will  find  delegates  selected 
by  States  just  exactly  as  California  has  selected  hers.  If  nothing  else 
has  been  achieved  in  this  campaign,  that  achievement  is  worthy  of  the 
great  two-handed  fighter  who  has  gone  up  and  down  this  land,  and  who 
has  gone  into  every  State  where  the  people  rule,  and,  thank  God,  has 
won  every  State  where  the  people  do  rule.  (Applause.)  If  there  were 
nothing  else  that  could  be  left  as  his  monument,  there  will  be  left  the 
fact  that  in  this  campaign  he  demonstrated  to  the  people  of  all  this  coun- 
try that  all  people,  and  not  a  part  of  them  only,  in  any  State  or  in  any 
place,  have  the  right  to  rule  in  this  nation,  and  that  is  the  debt  as  well 
as  others  that  we  to-day  owe  to  Theodore  Roosevelt.  (Applause.) 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  is  on  agreeing  to  the  mo- 
tion of  the  gentleman  from  Indiana  (Mr.  Watson)  to  lay  on  the  table 
the  motion  of  the  gentleman  from  Missouri  (Mr.  Hadley)  to  substitute 
the  views  of  the  minority  for  the  report  of  the  majority  of  the  Committee 
on  Credentials  in  the  matter  of  the  contest  in  the  Fourth  California  dis- 
trict. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  213 

MR.  HADLEY,  of  Missouri. — On  that  I  ask  for  a  roll  call. 

MR.  WILLIAM  FLINN,  of  Pennsylvania,  and  MR.  A.  L.  GARFORD,  of 
Ohio,  seconded  the  demand,  and  the  yeas  and  nays  were  ordered. 

The   Secretary  proceeded  to   call  the  roll  of   States. 

The  STATE  OF  MASSACHUSETTS  was  called,  and  the  vote  was  an- 
nounced :  18  yeas,  18  nays. 

MR.  CHARLES  S.  BAXTER,  of  Massachusetts,  and  MR.  LYNN  M.  RANGER, 
of  Massachusetts,  challenged  the  vote  and  demanded  a  roll  call. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  vote  of  Massachusetts  is  challenged. 
The  Secretary  will  call  the  roll  of  the  Massachusetts  delegation. 

The  Secretary  having  called  the  roll  of  the  Massachusetts  delegation, 
the  result  was  announced,  yeas  18,  nays  18,  as  follows : 

MASSACHUSETTS. 

AT     LARGE. 

Delegates.  Yea.  Nay. 

Charles     S.     Baxter i 

George    W.    Coleman i 

Frederick    Fosdick i 

Albert     Bushnell     Hart i 

Octave  A.   La  Riviere i 

James    P.    Magenis i 

Arthur    L.    Nason .  .  i 

Alvin  G.  Weeks i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Cummings     C.     Chesney i 

Eugene  B.   Blake i 

2 — Embury  P.   Clark i 

William   H.    Feiker i 

3— Matthew  J.    WhittaT  (By   T.    F.    McGauley,   Alt.)        i 
Lawrence  F.  Kilty  (By  Wm.  A.  L.  Bazeley,  Alt.)        i 

4 — John   M.   Keyes 

Frederick   P.   Glazier i 

5 — Herbert   L.   Chapman i 

Smith   M.   Decker    (By   Tames   R.    Berwick,  Alt.)  ...  i 

6 — James    F.    Ingraham,   Jr i 

Isaac   Patch    (By  A.   E.    Lunt.  alternate) i 

7 — Charles   M.    Cox    (By    Phillip   V.    Mingo,   Alt.).   ...  i 

Lynn   M.    Ranger l 

8— John  Read J 

George   S.   Lovejoy T 

9 — Alfred     Tewksbury      l 

Loyal   L.   Jenkins ' 

10— H.     Clifford    Gallagher i 

Guy   A.    Ham i 

ii— Graf  ton   D.   Cushing    (By   Martin   Hays,   alternate)        i 

W.     Prentiss    Parker i 

12 — J.    Stearns   Cushing    (By   Wendell   Williams.    Alt.)        i 

George    L.    Barnes l 

1 3 — John    Westall     ' 

Abbott  P.   Smith   (By  Charles  T.   Smith,  Alt.)  .   .        i 


214  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE 

MASSACHUSETTS.— Continued. 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates.  Yea.  Nay. 

14 — Eldon  B.  Keith i 

Warren  A.  Swift i 

18  18 

The   Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll  of   States. 

MR.  JAMES  W.  WADSWORTH,  JR.,  of  New  York  (when  New  York 
was  called). — With  the  understanding  that  the  announcement  will  be 
challenged,  the  vote  of  New  York  is  announced :  75  yeas,  15  nays. 

MR.  JACOB  L.  HOLTZMANN,  of  New  York. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  challenge 
the  vote  and  demand  a  roll  call. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  vote  of  New  York  being  chal- 
lenged, the  Secretary  will  call  the  roll  of  the  delegation  of  that  State. 

The  Secretary  called  the  roll  of  the  New  York  delegation,  and  the 
result  was  announced,  yeas  75,  nays,  15,  as  follows : 

NEW  YORK. 

AT    LARGE. 

Delegates.  Yea.  Nay. 

Elihu  Root   (By  D.  W.  B.  Brown,  alternate) i 

William     Barnes,    Jr i 

Edwin    A.    Merritt,    Jr i 

William    Berri     i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — William    Carr     i 

Smith   Cox i 

2 — Theron   H.    Burden i 

Frank  E.  Losee i 

3 — David    Towle      i 

Alfred  E.   Vass i 

4— Timothy    L.    Woodruff i 

William    A.    Prendergast i 

5 — William   Berri   (By  Robert   \Vellwood,   alternate).       ..  i 

Alfred    T.    Hobley i 

6— William   M.    Calder i 

Lewis  M.  Swasey i 

7 — Michael   J.    Dady i 

Jacob  Brenner i 

8 — Marcus   B.    Campbell i 

Frederick  Linde i 

9 — Thomas  B.  Lineburgh i 

Rhinehard    H.    Pforr i 

10 — Clarence    B.    Smith i 

Jacob   L.   Holtzman I 

1 i — George    Cromwell     I 

Chauncey  M.   Depew i 

12 — J.   Van  Vechten  Olcott i 

Alexander  Wolf I 

13 — James    E.    March I 

Charles  H.   Murray I 

14 — Samuel    S.    Koenig i 

Frederick  C.  Tanner  (By  W.  H.  Wadhams,  Alt.)        i 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL  CONVENTION.  215 

NEW  YORK.— Continued. 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates.  Yea.  Nay. 

15— Job  E.  Hedges  (By  Courtlandt  Nkoll,  Alt.)  .  .  .  i 

Ezra  P.   Prentice  (By  Robt  McC.  Marsh,  Alt.)  i 

16 — Otto  T.    Bannard I 

Martin  Steinthal i 

17 — Nicholas   Murray   Butler i 

William    H.    Douglas i 

,8 — Ogden  L.  Mills i 

Charles  L.   Bernheimer I 

19 — Samuel    Strasbourger     I 

Louis   N.    Hammerling i 

30 — Herbert  Parsons I 

Samuel  Krule witch   (By  Nathan  Liberman,  Alt.)  .  i 

3i — Lloyd    C.    Griscom i 

Frank  K.  Bowers i 

23 — Tames  L.  Wells i 

Ernest    F.    Eilert i 

33 — Josiah    T.    Newcomb i 

Herman    T.    Redin i 

34 — Alexander  S.  Cochran  (J'.y  John  H.  Nichols,  Alt.)  i 

William  Archer 

35— William  L.  Ward 

John   J.    Brown i 

36 — Joseph   M.    Dickey    (By   Geo.    Overrocker,   Alt.)  .  i 

Samuel  K.   Phillips i 

37 — Louis    F.    Payn i 

Martin    Cantine     I 

38 — James    H.    Perkins i 

Alba    M.    Ide i 

30— Louis  W.   Emerson 1 

Cornelius  V.    Collins i 

jo— Lucius  N.   Littauer I 

J.    Ledlie    Hees  .   .   .- i 

31 — George  R.  Malby  (By  Harvey  C.  Carter,  Alt.)  .  .  I 

John  H.  Moffitt i 

33 — Francis  M.  Hugo i 

Perry   G.    Williams i 

33 — Judson  J.  Gilbert i 

William   S.    Doolittle I 

34 — George  W.   Fairchild i 

Lafayette  B.  Gleason   (By  H.   D.  Newton,  Alt.)  .  i 

35 — Francis  Hendricks i 

James  M.  Gilbert J 

36 — Sereno     E.     Payne i 

Albert   M.    Patterson I 

37 — Andrew   D.   White    (By   Elmer  Sherwood,  Alt.)  .  i 

Alanson    B.    Houghton i 

38— George  W.    Aldridge i 

James    L.    Hotchkiss ' 

39 — James   W.    Wadsworth i 

Frederick  C.  Stevens i 

40 — William    H.    Daniels i 

James  S.   Simmons * 


216 


OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 


NEW    YORK.— Continued. 
DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

41 — Charles  P.  Woltz  (By  George  P.  Urban,  Alt.)  .   . 
Nathan  Wolff   (By  John  H.    Clogston,   Alternate) 

42 — John   Grimm 

Simon  Seibert   (By  Charles  H.   Brown,  Alternate) 

43 — Frank    Sullivan    Smith 

Frank    O.    Anderson 


Yea. 


Nay. 


75  IS 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  roll  call  of  States. 

The  State  of  Pennsylvania  was  called,  and  the  vote  announced — 12 
yeas,  64  nays. 

MR.  RICHARD  R.  QUAY,  of  Pennsylvania. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  desire 
to  challenge  the  correctness  of  that  vote  and  ask  for  a  poll  of  the 
delegation. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  roll  of  Pennsylvania  will  be  called. 

The  Secretary  called  the  roll  of  the  Pennsylvania  delegation,  and  the 
result  was  announced,  yeas  12,  nays  64,  as  follows : 

PENNSYLVANIA. 

AT     LARGE. 

Delegates.                                                                                Yea.  Nay. 

Ziba     T.     Moore i 

H.    H.    Gilkyson i 

William   P.    Young    (By   Harry   B.   Myers,   alternate)  ...  I 

Robert    D.    Towne i 

John   E.    Schiefley i 

William  H.   Hackenberg i 

George     R.     Scull i 

Owen    C.    Underwood i 

William    W.     Kincaid i 

Lex    N.    Mitchell    (.By    Charles    C.    McClain,    Alt.).   ...  i 

Fred     W.     Brown i 

George    H.    Flinn i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i— Hugh    Black i 

William    S.    Vare i 

2 — E.   T.    Stotesbury   (By  Howard   B.   French,  Alt.)  .         i 

John    Wanamaker i 

3 — J.    H.    Bromley i 

Harry    C.     Ransley i 

4 — H.   Horace  Dawson    (By  Geo.    Bradford  Carr,  A.)      .  .  i 

Charles     F.     Freihofer i 

5 — William     Disston      i 

John    T.    Murphy i 

6 — Samuel     Crothers     i 

William    Draper   Lewis i 

7 — John     ,J.     Gheen i 

James    W.    Mercur i 

8— B.    C.    Foster i 

C.    Tyson    Kratz i 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  217 

PENNSYLVANIA.— Continued. 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates.  Yea  Nay 

9—  Wm.  W.  Griest l  ' 

William   H.    Keller l 

10 — John    Von    Bergen,    Jr t 

George    B.    Carson , 

II — Stephen  J.   Hughes t 

David   M.    Rosser t 

12 — Thomas    R.    Edwards x 

H.    D.    Lindermuth , 

13 — Fred    E.    Lewis ! 

B.      Frank     Ruth , 

14 — Bradley   \V.    Lewis i 

Dana    R.    Stephens ! 

15 — Harry    VV.    Pyles i 

Robert  K.  Young i 

1 6 — A  very    Clinton    Sickles i 

W.  H.  Unger , 

1 7 — Thomas    A.    Appleby i 

Charles  B.   Clayton i 

1 8 — Harry    Hertzler I 

Charles    E.    Landis i 

19— VV.    LoveU    Baldrige i 

Mahlon    H.    Myers i 

20 — F.    H.    Beard i 

Grier  Hersh I 

21 — E.    G.    Boose i 

Guy  B.  Mayo i 

22 — John    C.    Dight i 

William    C.     Peoples i 

23 — Harvey    M.    Berkeley i 

Allen  F.  Cooper   (By  Geo.  W.  Newcomer,  Alt.)  .        i 

24 — James  H.  Cunningham i 

George    Davidson     i 

25 — Philip    J.    Barber i 

Manley    O.    Brown i 

26 — Leighton    C.    Scott i 

William  Tonkin i 

27— J.    W.    Foust i 

Harry   W.    Truitt i 

28 — John    L.    Morrison i 

J.    C.    Russell i 

29 — Judd  H.   Bruff   (By  Herman   W.   Stratman,   Alt.)      ..  i 

Richard  R.   Quay i 

30 — William  H.   Coleman i 

Samuel  C.  Jamison . .  I 

31 — William  Flinn J 

Charles  F.  Frazee  (By  Mich'l  J.  Ehrenfeld,  Alt.)      ..  i 

32 — David    B.    Johns i 

Louis  P.  Schneider i 


218  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

The  Secretary  having  resumed  and  concluded  the  calling  of  the  roll 
of  States,  the  result  was  announced — yeas  542,  nays  529,  not  voting  7,  as 
follows : 


States,   Territories,  and 

Number 

Not 

Delegate   Districts. 

of  Votes. 

Yeas. 

Nays. 

Voting 

Alabama    

24 

22 

2 

Arizona     

6 

6 

Arkansas    

18 

17 

I 

California    

26 

24 

a 

12 

Connecticut     

14 

14 

Delaware   

6 

6 

Florida    

12 

12 

Georgia  

28 

28 

Idaho  

8 

8 

Illinois    

58 

8 

so 

Indiana     

30 

20 

IO 

Iowa     

26 

IS 

II 

Kansas    

20 

2 

18 

Kentucky  

26 

23 

3 

Louisiana  

20 

20 

Maine     

12 

12 

16 

I 

14 

i 

36 

18 

18 

Michigan      

3° 

20 

IO 

Minnesota    

24 

24 

Mississippi    

20 

16 

4 

Missouri    

36 

16 

20 

Montana   

8 

8 

Nebraska    

16 

16 

6 

6 

New  Hampshire  

8 

8 

28 

28 

New    Mexico  

8 

6 

2 

New  York  

90 

75 

15 

North    Carolina  

24 

3 

21 

North    Dakota  

10 

10 

.  . 

Ohio    

48 

14 

34 

.. 

Oklahoma     

20 

4 

16 

Oregon      

10 

10 

76 

12 

64 

Rhode    Island  

10 

10 

18 

ii 

6 

i 

South    Dakota.  

10 

10 

Tennessee    

24 

22 

2 

Texas     

40 

«9 

10 

j 

Utah    

8 

7 

I 

Vermont    

8 

5 

3 

Virginia    

24 

18 

4 

* 

Washington    

14 

14 

West  Virginia  

16 

16 

Wisconsin    

26 

26 

.  . 

Wyoming     

6 

t 

FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  219 

States,  Territories,  and  Number  Not 


Delegate  Ditsricts.  of  Votes.     Yea 

Alaska 2 

District    of    Columbia 2 

Hawaii 6 

Philippine    Islands 2 

Porto   Rico 2 


Nays.  Voting. 


Totals 1,078         542         529  7 

So  Mr.  Watson's  motion  to  lay  on  the  table  Mr.  Hadley's  motion  that 
the  views  of  the  minority  be  substituted  for  the  report  of  the  majority 
in  the  Fourth  California  district  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  is  on  the  motion  to  adopt 
the  majority  report. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  delegates  will  be 
placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

DELEGATES  AT  LARGE  FROM  GEORGIA. 

MR.  JOHN  H.  EARLY,  of  Tennessee. — Mr.  Chairman,  by  request  of 
the  Committee  on  Credentials  I  present  its  report  on  the  contest  on  the 
delegates  at  large  from  the  State  of  Georgia,  and  move  the  adoption  of 
the  report  when  read  by  the  Secretary. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Secretary  will  read  the  report  for 
the  information  of  the  Convention. 

The  Secretary  read  the  report  as  follows : 

The  Committee  decided  by  unanimous  vote  to  seat  the  delegates  at 
large  from  the  State  of  Georgia  with  their  alternates,  consisting  of 
H.  S.  Jackson,  Henry  L.  Johnson,  B.  J.  Davis  and  C.  P.  Goree. 

It  was  admitted  by  the  contestants  that  these  delegates  were  regu- 
larly elected  at  a  State  Convention  called  by  the  regular  State  organiza- 
tion after  due  notice  given,  and  that  the  county  conventions  which  sent 
delegates  to  the  State  convention  were  called  by  the  regular  county  Re- 
publican organizations  throughout  the  State.  It  further  appeared  that 
the  contesting  delegation  was  elected  by  a  convention  which  \\ns  not 
called  together  by  any  regular  party  organization  in  the  State,  and  that 
the  persons  who  called  the  same  had  no  connection  whatever  with  the 
regular  State  Executive  Committee. 

The  contention  of  the  contesting  delegation  was  that  at  the  time 
the  regular  State  convention  was  held  there  were  no  persons  qualified  to 
vote  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  Georgia,  and  that  there  were  no 
qualified  voters  in  the  State  between  the  31st  day  of  December,  1911,  and 
the  20th  day  of  April,  1912. 

The  State  of  Georgia  has  a  registration  law  under  which  every  per- 


220  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 

son  claiming  the  right  of  suffrage  must  qualify  by  having  his  name  placed 
upon  the  registration  list.  These  registration  lists  are  prepared  in  years 
in  which  a  general  election  is  held  and  are  compiled  between  the  20th 
day  of  April  and  the  1st  day  of  June.  It  was  the  contention  of  the  con- 
testants that  the  registration  list  for  the  year  1912  was  first  available 
on  April  20th.  The  Jackson  delegation  was  elected  at  a  State  convention 
held  before  this  date,  while  the  contesting  delegation  was  elected  at  a 
convention  held  May  21st.  It  was  clearly  shown,  however,  that  the  work 
of  preparing  the  new  list  of  registered  voters  was  not  completed  by 
May  21st;  and  that  they  were  not  required  to  be  deposited  with  the  proper 
county  officer  until  the  5th  day  of  June. 

In  further  answer  to  the  claim  that  there  were  no  registered  voters 
in  the  State  of  Georgia  between  December  31st,  1911,  and  April  2l)th, 
1912,  it  was  shown  that  within  these  dates  a  Governor  of  the  State  had 
been  elected  at  a  general  election,  that  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  had  been 
elected  in  one  of  the  counties,  and  that  the  entire  delegation  to  the 
Democratic  National  Convention  had  been  elected  under  the  old  registra- 
tion lists.  The  same  registration  lists  were  used  at  these  elections  as  were 
used  in  the  elections  which  selected  delegates  to  the  county  conventions 
and  the  state  conventions  which  elected  this  Jackson  delegation  to  the  Re- 
publican National  Convention,  which  was  placed  on  the  temporary  roll. 

Under  the  laws  of  Georgia  the  tax  collectors  turn  over  to  the  county 
registrars  the  list  of  voters  prepared  by  them,  and  the  county  regis- 
trars have  until  the  1st  day  of  June  to  purge  these  "voters'  lists"  and  pre- 
pare a  list  of  qualified  voters,  and  that  on  or  before  the  5th  day  of  June 
this  new  list  of  qualified  voters  must  be  deposited  with  the  clerk  of  the 
Superior  court  in  the  several  counties  of  the  State.  It  followed,  therefore, 
that  if  the  claim  of  the  contestants  was  correct  no  delegates  to  the  Re- 
publican National  Convention  could  have  been  elected  from  the  State 
of  Georgia. 

On  the  showing  thus  made,  the  Taft  delegation  was  seated  by  unani- 
mous vote. 

The  district  contests  which  were  based  on  the  same  grounds  were 
abandoned. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — There  being  no  minority  report,  the 
question  is  on  the  adoption  of  the  unanimous  report  of  the  Committee 
on  Credentials.  The  delegates  whose  seats  are  contested  will  not  vote. 

The  motion  to  adopt  the  majority  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  delegates  will  be 
placed  on  the  permanent  roll.  The  Convention  will  receive  a  report  from 
the  Committee  on  Credentials  on  the  contest  in  Indiana.  The  Chair  rec- 
ognizes Mr.  John  H.  Early,  of  Tennessee. 

INDIANA  DELEGATES  AT  LARGE. 

MR.  JOHN  H.  EARLY,  of  Tennessee. — Mr.  Chairman,  at  the  request  of 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  221 

the  Commiteee  on  Credentials  I  present  the  report  on  the  contest  as  to  the 
delegates  at  large  from  the  State  of  Indiana,  and  move  the  adoption  of 
the  report  when  read  by  the  Secretary. 

The  Secretary  read  the  report  as  follows : 

The  Committee  voted  to  seat  Charles  W.  Fairbanks,  Harry  S.  New, 
Joseph  D.  Oliver  and  James  E.  Watson  as  the  delegates  at  large  and 
their  alternates  from  the  State  of  Indiana  upon  the  permanent  roll  of  this 
Convention. 

The  following  facts  were  established  as  evidence  in  support  of  their 
claim  to  be  seated  as  delegates  in  this  Convention : 

The  contestants'  claim  was  based  almost  wholly  on  the  claim  that 
the  Indianapolis  primaries  were  fraudulent.  Indianapolis  is  in  Marion 
County,  which  constitutes  the  Seventh  Congressional  district.  The  dele- 
gates from  Marion  County,  elected  at  the  primaries  to  the  State  conven- 
tion, consisted  of  128,  who  were  for  Taft,  and  6  who  were  for  Roosevelt. 
Originally  one  hundred  of  these  delegates  were  contested.  The  delegates 
were  elected  by  fifteen  wards  in  Indianapolis  and  in  townships  outside, 
direct  to  the  State  convention.  The  largest  ward  had  fourteen  delegates, 
and  the  average  was  eight  to  a  ward.  Under  the  call  of  the  State  Com- 
mittee, the  delegates  to  the  State  convention  met  by  districts  the  night 
before  the  convention  and  each  district  was  required  to  elect  one  mem- 
ber of  a  Committee  on  Credentials,  which  committee  was  to  sit  as 
soon  as  its  members  were  elected.  Ten  members  of  this  committee  of 
thirteen  were  elected  without  contest,  and  immediately  organized  by  elect- 
ing a  chairman  and  secretary.  From  each  of  the  third,  sixth,  and  eleventh 
districts  two  delegates  appeared,  claiming  to  have  been  elected  members 
of  the  Committee  on  Credentials.  The  Committee  on  Credentials,  as  or- 
ganized, heard  the  evidence,  and  in  the  cases  of  the  Third  and  Sixth 
districts  seated  a  Taft  delegate,  and  from  the  eleventh  seated  the  Roose- 
velt delegate.  In  the  City  of  Indianapolis  the  total  vote  at  the  primaries 
of  March  22nd  was  Taft,  6,163;  Roosevelt,  1,480. 

The  committee  then  proceeded  to  hear  evidence  on  the  various  con- 
tests. It  reported  to  the  Convention  that  the  106  delegates  from  Marion 
County,  who  had  proper  credentials,  but  whose  seats  were  contested,  were 
entitled  to  sit  in  the  Convention.  As  to  the  other  contests,  some  were 
decided  for  the  Taft  and  some  for  the  Roosevelt  delegates.  These  other 
contests,  however,  were  so  few  and  the  number  of  delegates  involved  so 
small  as  not  to  affect  the  result. 

Eight  of  the  committee  reported  in  favor  of  recognizing  the  Taft 
delegates  from  Marion  County,  whose  seats  were  contested,  and  five  pre- 
sented a  minority  report  in  favor  of  the  Roosevelt  contestants.  The 
minority  report  of  the  committee  was  laid  upon  the  table,  and  the  major- 
ity report  adopted  by  a  majority  of  105.  Complaint  was  made  that  the 
sitting  delegates  from  Marion  County  were  permitted  to  vote  on  adopt- 


222  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

ing  the  majority  report,  but  no  appeal  was  taken  from  the  ruling  of  the 
Chair,  that  they  were  entitled  to  vote,  and  no  appeal  was  taken  to  the 
State  Committee,  as  required  by  the  rules  of  the  party  organization  in  the 
State. 

The  bolting  convention  was  held  in  a  corner  of  the  hall  and  was  at- 
tended by  not  more  than  one  hundred  of  the  delegates,  of  whom  not  more 
than  fifty  participated  in  the  proceedings.  These  fifty  delegates  at- 
tempted to  elect  the  contestants  who  are  now  claiming  to  be  the  regularly 
elected  delegates  at  large  from  Indiana  instructed  for  Colonel  Roosevelt. 
The  Fairbanks  delegation  is  clearly  entitled  to  be  seated. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Mr.  Sullivan,  of  Ohio,  is  recognized  to 
present  a  statement  of  the  views  of  the  minority. 

MR.  JOHN  J.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  on 
behalf  of  13  members  of  the  Credentials  Committee,  I  move  as  a  substi- 
tute for  the  report  just  read  the  following,  which  I  will  ask  the  Secre- 
tary to  read. 

The  Secretary  read  the  views  of  the  minority  as  follows: 

We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of  the 
National  Republican  Committee,  hereby  submit  the  following  report : 

(1)  We   protest   against   the   action    of    the    following    members   of 
the  committee  in  sitting  upon  and  participating  in  the  actions  of  the  com- 
mittee, Mr.  J.  C.  Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas,  and 
Mr.   W.   T.   Dovell,   of   Washington,   for  the   reason  that  each   of  these 
men  was  elected  by  entire  delegations  whose  seats  are  contested. 

(2)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  men,  Mr.  J.  C. 
Adams,    of    Arizona;    Mr.    C.    A.    Warnken,    of    Texas,    and    Mr.    W.   T. 
Dovell,  of  Washington,  from  participating  in  and  voting  upon  the  ques- 
tions in  any  of  the  contests  on  the  ground  that  they  are  in  effect  sitting 
as  judges  in  their  own  cases. 

(3)  We  protest  against  Mr.  Thomas  H.  Devine,  of  Colorado;   Mr. 
Fred    W.    Estabrook,    of    New    Hampshire ;    Mr.    Henry    Blun,    Jr.,    of 
Georgia;  Mr.  L.  B.  Moseley,  of  Mississippi,  and  Mr.  L.  P.  Shackleford,  of 
Alaska,  sitting  as  members  of  this  committee,  for  the  reasons  that  they 
were  members  of  the  National  Committee  and  participated  in  its  delibera- 
tions and  actions. 

(4)  We  find  that  the  following  persons  reported  upon  by  the  major- 
ity of  members  of  this  committee  are  not  entitled  to  seats  in  this  con- 
vention and  should  not  be  placed  upon  its  permanent  roll : 

INDIANA. 

DELEGATES  AT  LARGE.  ALTERNATES. 

Harry  S.  New.  W.   H.   McCurdy. 

Charles  W.  Fairbanks.  William   E.   Eppert. 

James  E.  Watson.  Summer  A.  Furniss. 

Joseph  D.  Oliver.  Virgie  Reiter. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  223 

(5)  And  we  further  report  that  in  place  of  the  said  persons  the  fol- 
lowing persons  were  duly  elected  and  are  legally  entitled  to  seats  in  this 
Convention  and  should  be  seated  and  accredited  to  their  respective  states- 
.and  districts,  as  follows : 

INDIANA. — At  Large. 

DELEGATES. 

Albert  J.  Beveridge  Fred  K.  Landis 

Edwin  M.  Lee  Charles  H.  Campbell 

And  their  Alternates. 

R.  R.  Me  CORMICK,  Illinois. 

(By  John  E.  Wilder.) 
JOHN  J.  SULLIVAN,  Ohio. 
HUGH  T.  H  ALBERT. 
JESSE  M.  LIBBY,  Maine. 
JESSE  A.  TOLERTON,  Missouri. 
JOHN  BOYD  Avis,  New  Jersey. 
CHARLES  H.  COWLES,   North  Carolina. 
W.  S.  LAUDER,  North  Dakota. 
D.  J.  NORTON,  Oklahoma. 
HARRY  SHAW,  West  Virginia. 
A.  V.  SWIFT,  Oregon. 
L.  H.  MITCHELL,  Pennsylvania. 

(By  William  P.  Young.) 
R.  A.  HARRIS,  Kansas. 

MR.  HARRY  M.  DAUGHERTY,  of  Ohio. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  move  that 
'the  motion  to  substitute  the  views  of  the  minority  for  the  majority  report 
be  laid  upon  the  table. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  now  is  upon  the  adoption 
of  the  report  of  the  Committee. 
The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  State  delegates-at- 
large  of  Indiana  will  be  placed  on  the  roll.  The  Convention  will  receive 
a  report  from  the  Committee  on  Credentials  upon  the  contest  in  the  Thir- 
teenth District  of  Indiana. 

THIRTEENTH  INDIANA  DISTRICT. 

MR.  JOHN  H.  EARLY,  of  Tennessee,  submitted  the  following  report: 
"The  committee  voted  to  seat  Clement  W.  Studebaker  and  Maurice 

Fox,  delegates,  and  their  alternates,  from  the  Thirteenth  Congressional 

District  of  Indiana. 

"The  convention  for  this  district  met  at  the  proper  time  and  place 

yprovided  for  in  the  call,  and  in  strict  conformity  with  the  national  call. 


224  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

The  convention  was  organized  by  electing  the  Taft  candidate,  A.  G.  Gra- 
ham, as  chairman.  He  received  71 J4  votes,  as  against  70^4  votes  cast  for 
Mr.  Jones,  his  opponent.  The  Committee  on  Credentials  was  appointed, 
and  six  Taft  contests  and  two  Roosevelt  contests  were  submitted  to  the 
Committee  on  Credentials,  all  of  which  were  overruled.  The  report  deny- 
ing the  claim  of  the  eight  contestants  was  signed  by  four  members  of 
this  committee,  a  majority,  and  no  minority  report  was  presented.  There 
was  much  disorder  in  the  convention,  and  the  Taft  delegates  who  hold  the 
credentials  were  elected  by  a  viva  voce  vote,  as  were  their  alternates. 
No  other  nominations  were  made." 

MR.  JOHN  J.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  submit  the  views  of  the  minority 
in  the  case  of  the  contest  from  the  Thirteenth  District  of  Indiana,  and 
ask  that  it  be  read. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 

"We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of 
the  National  Republican  Convention,  hereby  submit  the  following  report : 

"(1)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  members  of 
the  Committee  in  sitting  upon  and  participating  in  the  actions  of  the 
Committee,  Mr.  J.  C.  Adams,  of  Arizona,  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas, 
and  Mr.  W.  T.  Dovell,  of  Washington,  for  the  reason  that  each  of  these 
men  was  elected  by  entire  delegations  whose  seats  are  contested. 

"(2)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  men:  Mr.  J.  C. 
Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas,  and  Mr.  W.  T.  Do- 
vell, of  Washington,  from  participating  in  and  voting  upon  the  questions 
in  any  of  the  contests  on  the  ground  that  they  are  in  effect  sitting  as 
judges  in  their  own  cases. 

"(3)  We  protest  against  Mr.  Thomas  H.  Devine,  of  Colorado;  Mr. 
Fred  W.  Estabrook,  of  New  Hampshire;  Mr.  Henry  Blun,  Jr.,  of  Geor- 
gia; Mr.  L.  B.  Moseley,  of  Mississippi,  and  Mr.  L.  P.  Shackleford,  of 
Alaska,  sitting  as  members  of  this  committee,  for  the  reason  that  they 
were  members  of  the  National  Committee  and  participated  in  its  delib- 
erations and  actions. 

"(4)  We  find  that  the  following  persons  reported  upon  by  the 
majority  of  members  of  this  Committee  are  not  entitled  to  seats  in  this 
Convention  and  should  not  be  placed  upon  its  permanent  roll : 

DELEGATES. 

Clement  W.  Studebaker.  Maurice  Fox. 

-  "(5)  And  we  further  report  that  in  place  of  the  said  persons  the 
following  persons  were  duly  elected  and  are  legally  entitled  to  seats  in 
this  Convention,  and  should  be  seated  and  accredited  to  their  respective 
States  and  Districts,  as  follows : 

Putnam  R.  Judkins.  Frederick  W.  Keller. 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  move  that  the  views  of  the  minority  be 
substituted  for  the  majority  report. 


HON.   ARTHUR   I.    YORYS,   of   Ohio, 
Member   of   the    Committee    on    Arrangements. 


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MR.  HARRY  M.  DAUGHERTY,  of  Ohio. — I  move  to  lay  on  the  table  Mr. 
Sullivan's  motion. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  recurs  on  agreeing  to  the 
report  of  the  majority. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY   CHAIRMAN. — The   names   of   the   delegates   now   on 
the  temporary  roll  will  be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 
ELEVENTH  KENTUCKY  DISTRICT. 

MR.  EARLY,  of  Tennessee,  from  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  sub- 
mitted the  following  report : 

"After  a  thorough  investigation  of  the  facts  concerning  the  contest 
in  the  Eleventh  Congressional  District  of  Kentucky,  the  Committee  rec- 
ommends that  the  delegates  and  the  alternates  from  this  district  now 
upon  the  temporary  roll  of  this  Convention  be  transferred  to  the  per- 
manent roll.  Because  of  the  conflicting  testimony  and  the  variance  of 
facts  in  this  case,  the  Committee  believes  that  in  the  selection  of  one  Taft 
delegate,  Mr.  O.  H.  Waddle,  and  his  alternate,  and  of  one  Roosevelt 
delegate,  Mr.  D.  C.  Edwards,  and  his  alternate,  that  complete  justice  is 
being  exercised  and  that  the  respective  claims  of  both  parties  to  repre- 
sent this  district  in  the  National  Convention  are  being  fairly  and  equit- 
ably settled." 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  move,  as  a  substitute  for  the  names  re 
ported  by  the  majority  of  the  Committee,  the  names  of  D.  C.  Edwards 
and  O.  H.  Waddle,  and  their  alternates. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  on  the  table  Mr.  Sullivan's 
motion. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  report  of  the  majority  of  the  Committee  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  members  will 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

SEVENTH  KENTUCKY  DISTRICT. 

MR.  MAURICE  L.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — By  direction  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Credentials,  I  present  this  report  on  the  contest  in  the  Seventh 
Kentucky  District,  and  ask  that  it  be  read. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows: 

"The  committee  respectfully  recommends  the  seating  of  Richard  il 
Stoll,  of  Lexington,  Kentucky,  Fayette  County  and  James  Cureton,  of 
Henry  County,  as  delegates  from  the  Seventh  Congressional  District  of 
Kentucky,  and  George  R.  Armstrong,  of  Owen  County,  and  E.  W. 
Schenault,  of  Fayette  County,  as  alternate  delegates  from  said  Seventh 
Congressional  District  of  Kentucky. 


226  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

"Your  committee  begs  leave  to  state  that  it  has  heard  a  full  presen- 
tation of  the  evidence  and  an  exhaustive  argument  of  those  representing 
the  delegates  and  alternates,  whose  seating  they  recommend,  as  well  as 
the  adverse  parties,  at  the  close  of  which  your  committee  find  the  fol- 
lowing facts : 

'The  call  for  the  Seventh  Congressional  District  Convention  of  Ken- 
tucky was  properly  made  by  the  Congressional  District  Committee,  and 
the  convention  was  regularly  called  and  held  in  accordance  with  the  call. 
There  were  four  contested  counties  in  the  Seventh  Congressional  Dis- 
trict, and  four  counties  in  said  district  which  were  uncontested,  the  four 
uncontested  counties  being  for  Taft. 

"According  to  the  rule  of  the  Republican  organization  of  the  State 
of  Kentucky,  where  two  sets  of  credentials  are  presented,  those  delegates 
whose  credentials  are  approved  by  the  county  chairman,  calling  the  county 
convention  to  order,  are  entitled  to  participate  in  the  temporary  organiza- 
tion of  the  convention.  This  rule  was  followed,  and  there  was  no  ob- 
jection thereto,  and  on  the  vote  for  a  temporary  chairman,  Wiard,  the 
Taft  candidate,  received  98  votes,  and  Throcmorton,  the  Roosevelt  candi- 
date, received  47  votes  in  the  district  convention. 

"A  Committee  on  Credentials  was  appointed,  each  county  in  the  dis- 
trict selecting  one  member  of  the  committee  as  is  required  by  the  rules 
of  the  Republican  organization  of  Kentucky,  no  objection  being  made 
thereto.  This  committee  met  and  was  in  session  several  hours,  and  every 
one  had  an  abundant  opportunity  to  be  heard  and  to  present  his  cause 
before  said  committee. 

"The  majority  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  and  this 
report  was  signed  by  every  member  of  the  committee  except  Henry  T. 
Duncan,  Jr.,  who  was  a  candidate  before  said  convention,  recommended 
the  seating  of  the  Taft  contested  delegation  in  Fayette  County,  the  seat- 
ing of  the  regular  delegations  in  Scott  and  Franklin  counties,  and  the 
unseating  of  the  regular  Taft  delegation  in  Woodford  County,  Mr.  Dun- 
can signing  the  report  as  to  Woodford  County,  and  the  seating  of  the 
Roosevelt  delegation.  Mr.  Duncan  presented  a  minority  report. 

"Under  the  rules  of  the  Republican  party  in  Kentucky,  a  county  in 
contest  is  not  permitted  to  vote  on  its  own  case,  and  the  majority  report 
of  the  committee  was  adopted  unanimously  in  the  case  of  each  contested 
county,  the  votes  ranging  from  ninety-eight  to  nothing  to  one  hundred 
and  thirty-one  to  nothing. 

"Mr.  Stoll  and  Mr.  Cureton  were  elected  delegates  to  this  convention 
unanimously,  as  were  Mr.  Armstrong  and  Mr.  Chenault,  who  were 
elected  alternates.  It  was  contended  before  the  committee  that  the  Roose- 
velt delegation  should  have  been  seated  in  the  counties  of  Fayette,  Scott 
and  Franklin. 

"The  committee  find  the  facts  to  be  as  follows:     In  Fayette  County, 


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the  testimony  shows  that  the  legal  voters  on  the  Taft  side  were  largely 
in  the  majority,  but  that  the  Roosevelt  chairman  of  the  convention  failed 
and  refused  upon  demand  properly  made  to  count  the  votes  in  the  con- 
vention, and  the  committee  is  of  the  opinion  that  the  Roosevelt  delegates 
should  have  been  unseated  in  the  convention  and  the  Taft  delegates  in 
Fayette  County  should  have  been  seated,  for  the  reason  that  had  a  count 
been  had  of  the  legal  voters  when  demanded,  a  large  majority  would 
have  been  found  in  favor  of  the  Taft  delegates  to  the  district  convention. 

"In  the  county  of  Franklin,  the  convention  was  called  to  order  at 
the  time  and  place  set  forth  in  the  call;  the  Roosevelt  people  did  not 
nominate  any  one  for  temporary  chairman  of  the  convention. 

"We  find  that  the  Taft  people  were  largely  in  the  majority,  and  that 
the  Roosevelt  people  did  not  attempt  to  organize  or  hold  any  convention 
in  Franklin  County  at  the  place  and  time  at  which  the  convention  was 
called,  although  given  abundant  opportunity  to  nominate  a  chairman  of 
the  convention,  and,  upon  being  assured  by  the  Chair  that  they  would  be 
accorded  fair  treatment,  the  Roosevelt  people  refused  to  nominate  any 
chairman  of  the  convention,  and  left  the  hall  before  any  ruling  whatever 
had  been  made  against  them;  and  the  committee  is  of  the  opinion  that 
the  regular  delegation  in  the  County  of  Scott  should  have  been  seated  by 
the  district  convention  as  was  done. 

"In  the  County  of  Scott,  the  Taft  people  were  largely  in  the  major- 
ity, and  upon  nominations  being  asked  for  temporary  chairman,  both  '.he 
Roosevelt  and  the  Taft  people  nominated  persons  for  chairman.  Fellers 
were  appointed,  and  while  the  count  was  in  progress,  and  when  it  h*d 
become  apparent  that  the  Taft  people  were  in  the  majority,  the  Roosevelt 

"In  the  County  of  Scott,  the  Taft  people  were  largely  in  the  major- 
ity, and  upon  nominations  being  asked  for  temporary  chairman,  both  the 
Roosevelt  and  the  Taft  people  nominated  persons  for  chairman.  Tellers 
were  appointed,  and  while  the  count  was  in  progress,  and  when  it  had 
become  apparent  that  the  Taft  people  were  in  the  majority,  the  Roosevelt 
people,  without  cause,  left  the  hall  before  any  ruling  was  made  against 
them  whatsoever;  and  the  committee  is  of  the  opinion  that  the  district 
convention  should  have  seated  the  regular  Taft  delegation,  which  they  did. 

"In  the  County  of  Woodford,  the  evidence  shows  that  there  were 
about  as  many  Roosevelt  people  as  there  were  Taft  people  at  the  con- 
vention, but  the  chairman  of  the  convention  refused  to  permit  a  count  of 
the  votes,  upon  request  of  the  Roosevelt  people,  and  the  district  conven- 
tion unseated  the  regular  Taft  delegation  and  seated  the  contesting 
Roosevelt  delegation.  The  committee  is  of  the  opinion  that  this  action 
was  correct. 

"The  committee  further  finds  that  the  four  counties  in  the  district 
which  were  uncontested  were  instructed  for  Taft  delegates,  and  the  com- 


228  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

mittee  therefore  finds  that  Richard  C.  Stoll,  of  Lexington.  Fayette 
County,  and  James  Curteton,  of  Henry  County,  Kentucky,  are  the  regular 
and  duly  elected  delegates  from  the  Seventh  Congressional  District  of 
Kentucky  and  that  George  R.  Armstrong  and  E.  W.  Chenault  were  regu 
larly  and  duly  elected  alternate  delegates  from  said  district." 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio,  submitted  the  views  of  the  minority,  as  fol- 
lows : 

"We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of 
the  National  Republican  Committee,  hereby  submit  the  following  report : 

"(1)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  members  of  the 
committee  in  sitting  upon  and  participating  in  the  actions  of  the  com- 
mittee :  Mr.  J.  C.  Adams,  of  Arizona ;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas, 
and  Mr.  W.  T.  Dovell,  of  Washington,  for  the  reason  that  each  of  these 
men  was  elected  by  entire  delegations  whose  seats  are  contested. 

"(2)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  men:  Mr.  J.  C. 
Adams,  of  Arizona ;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas,  and  Mr.  W.  T.  Do- 
vell, of  Washington,  from  participating  in  and  voting  upon  the  questions 
in  any  of  the  contests  on  the  ground  that  they  are  in  effect  sitting  as 
judges  in  their  own  cases. 

"(3)  We  protest  against  Mr.  Thomas  H.  Devine,  of  Colorado;  Mr. 
Fred  W.  Estabrook,  of  New  Hampshire ;  Mr.  Henry  Blun,  Jr.,  of  Geor- 
gia; Mr.  L.  B.  Moseley,  of  Mississippi,  and  Mr.  L.  P.  Shackleford,  of 
Alaska,  sitting  as  members  of  this  committee,  for  the  reason  that  they 
were  members  of  the  National  Committee  and  participated  in  its  delib- 
erations and  actions. 

"(4)  We  find  that  the  following  persons  reported  upon  by  the  ma- 
jority of  members  of  this  committee  are  not  entitled  to  seats  in  this  Con- 
vention, and  should  not  be  placed  upon  its  permanent  roll: 

DELEGATES.  ALTERNATES. 

Richard  C.  Stoll  George  R.  Armstrong 

James  Cureton  Edward  Chenault." 

"(5)  And  we  further  report  that  in  place  of  the  said  persons  the 
following  persons  were  duly  elected  and  are  legally  entitled  to  seats  in 
this  Convention,  and  should  be  seated  and  accredited  to  their  respective 
States  and  districts,  as  follows : 

DELEGATES. 

Henry  T.  Duncan  M.  C.  Rankin 

And  their  Alternates. 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  move  that  the  views  of  the  minority  be 
substituted  for  the  majority  report. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  on  the  table  the  motion  of 
Mr.  Sullivan. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  was  agreed  to. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  229 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  members  will 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

EIGHTH  KENTUCKY  DISTRICT. 

MR.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — From  the  Committee  on  Credentials  I  sub- 
mit the  following  report : 

"The  committee  recommends  the  seating  of  L.  W.  Bethurem,  of 
Mount  Vernon,  Rock  Castle  County,  Kentucky,  and  C.  C.  Wallace,  of 
Richmond,  Madison  County,  Kentucky,  as  delegates  from  the  Eighth 
Congressional  District  of  Kentucky,  and  J.  B.  Kinchelo,  of  Shelbyville, 
Shelby  County,  Kentucky,  and  George  W.  Gentry,  Stanford,  Lincoln 
County,  Kentucky,  as  alternate  delegates  from  said  Eighth  Congressional 
District  of  Kentucky. 

"Your  committee  begs  leave  to  report  that  it  has  heard  a  full  presen- 
tation of  the  evidence  and  an  exhaustive  argument  from  those  represent- 
ing the  delegates  and  alternates,  whose  seating  they  recommend,  as  well 
as  the  adverse  parties,  at  the  close  of  which  your  committee  finds  the 
following  facts : 

"The  call  for  the  Eighth  Congressional  District  Convention  of  Ken- 
tucky was  properly  made  by  the  Congressional  District  Committee,  and 
the  convention  was  regularly  called  and  held  in  accordance  with  the  call. 
There  were  three  contested  counties  in  the  Eighth  Congressional  District, 
and  six  counties  in  said  district  which  were  uncontested,  the  six  uncon- 
tested  counties  being  for  Taft. 

"According  to  the  rules  of  the  Republican  organization  of  the  State 
of  Kentucky,  where  two  sets  of  credentials  are  presented,  those  delegates 
whose  credentials  are  approved  by  the  county  chairman,  calling  the 
county  convention  to  order,  are  entitled  to  participate  in  a  temporary 
organization  of  the  convention.  This  rule  was  followed,  and  there  was 
no  objection  thereto,  and  on  the  vote  for  a  temporary  chairman,  Leonard 
W.  Bethurem,  the  Taft  candidate,  received  a  hundred  and  forty  two  votes, 
and  A.  R.  Burnham,  Jr.,  the  Roosevelt  candidate,  received  twenty-one 
votes. 

"A  Committee  on  Credentials  was  appointed,  each  county  in  the  dis- 
trict selecting  one  member  of  the  committee,  as  is  required  by  the  rules 
of  the  Republican  organization  of  Kentucky,  no  objection  being  made 
thereto.  This  committee  met  and  was  in  session  for  a  sufficient  period  of 
time  to  hear,  and  every  one  had  an  opportunity  to  be  heard  and  to  pre- 
sent his  case  before  said  committee.  The  report  of  the  Committee  on 
Credentials  was  unanimous,  and  recommended  that  each  delegation  from 
the  county  of  Boyle  be  seated,  with  half  a  vote  each,  and  that  the  dele- 
gation from  Garrard  and  Madison  counties,  certified  to  by  the  regular 
county  chairman,  were  entitled  to  be  seated.  These  delegations  were  for 


230  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF  THE 

Taft.  The  report  of  this  committee  was  unanimously  adopted,  the  coun- 
ties contested  not  voting  in  their  cases.  Mr.  Bethurem  and  Mr.  Wallace 
were  elected  delegates  to  this  convention  by  the  unanimous  vote  of  the 
district  convention,  as  were  the  alternates,  Mr.  Kinchelo  and  Mr.  Gentry. 
As  to  the  facts  in  each  of  the  contested  counties,  the  committee  finds 
that  as  to  Boyle,  the  division  of  the  delegates  as  reported  was  agreed  to, 
and  as  to  Mercer  County,  the  count  showed  a  majority  of  thirty-five  for 
Taft.  Upon  the  counts  being  reported,  objection  was  made,  and  all 
parties  agreed  that  a  recount  should  be  had  by  Mr.  James  B.  Spillman, 
the  secretary  of  the  county  committee.  This  recount  was  made  by  him, 
and  reported  as  being  in  favor  of  Mr.  Taft  by  from  thirty  to  thirty-five 
votes.  While  the  committees  were  out  the  Roosevelt  forces  withdrew 
from  the  courthouse,  with  the  exception  of  Mr.  Riker,  who  was.  for  Mr. 
Roosevelt  and  had  been  appointed  a  teller  in  his  behalf  to  count  the 
votes.  Mr.  Riker  remained  in  the  convention,  as  he  knew  the  vote  was 
correct. 

"As  to  Madison  County,  the  committee  finds  that  the  suggestion  ma  le 
by  the  Taft  people  to  count  the  vote  was  rejected  by  the  adherents  of 
Mr.  Roosevelt.  The  suggestion  was  that  the  count  be  made  by  filling  the 
entire  courthouse  and  that  courts  be  appointed  to  see  that  no  one  re- 
turned thereto  after  he  was  counted  out;  that  four  tellers  be  appointed 
to  count  the  Taft  votes  out  of  one  door  and  the  Roosevelt  votes  out  of 
another  door ;  two  Democrats  to  act  to  eliminate  from  the  crowd  any 
Democrat  therein,  and  one  Taft  teller  and  one  Roosevelt  teller.  This 
plan  was  rejected  by  the  adherents  of  Mr.  Roosevelt,  and  the  convention 
adjourned  to  the  front  yard.  Roosevelt  adherents  demanded  that  the 
tellers  be  elected.  The  Chair  declined  to  put  this  motion,  but  offered  to 
appoint  the  tellers  suggested  by  either  side.  \Vhereupon  the  Roosevelt 
crowd  bolted.  The  proof  amply  shows  that  the  Taft  adherents  outnum- 
bered the  Roosevelt  adherents  from  two  to  three  to  one. 

"The  committee  further  finds  that  the  three  counties  uncontested, 
had  they  all  been  decided  in  favor  of  Mr.  Roosevelt  by  the  credentials 
committee  of  the  district  convention,  would  have  shown  only  sixty-four 
votes  therein  against  the  ninety-four  uncontested  votes  for  Taft. 

"We  therefore  find  that  Leonard  W.  Bethurem,  of  Mount  Vernon, 
Kentucky,  and  Coleman  C.  Wallace,  of  Richmond,  Madison  County,  Ken- 
tucky, are  the  regular  duly  elected  delegates  from  the  Eighth  Congres- 
sional District  of  Kentucky;  that  George  W.  Gentry  and  J.  B.  Kinchelo 
were  regularly  and  duly  elected  alternate  delegates  from  said  district." 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — On  behalf  of  the  minority  I  am  directed  to 
submit  the  following  report : 

"We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of 
the  National  Republican  Committee,  hereby  submit  the  following  report: 

"(1)    We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  members  of  the 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  231 

committee  in  sitting  upon  and  participating  in  the  actions  of  the  commit- 
tee:  Mr.  J.  C.  Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas,  and 
Mr.  W.  T.  Dovell,  of  Washington,  for  the  reason  that  each  of  these  men 
was  elected  by  entire  delegations  whose  seats  are  contested. 

"(2)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  men:  Mr.  J.  C. 
Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas,  and  Mr.  W.  T.  Do- 
vell, of  Washington,  from  participating  in  and  voting  upon  the  questions 
in  any  of  the  contests,  on  the  ground  that  they  are  in  effect  sitting  as 
judges  in  their  own  cases. 

"(3)  We  protest  against  Mr.  Thomas  H.  Devine,  of  Colorado;  Mr. 
Fred  W.  Estabrook,  of  New  Hampshire;  Mr.  Henry  Blun,  Jr.,  of  Geor- 
gia, Mr.  L.  B.  Moseley,  of  Mississippi,  and  Mr.  L.  P.  Shackleford,  of 
Alaska,  sitting  as  members  of  this  committee,  for  the  reason  that  they 
were  members  of  the  National  Committee  and  participated  in  its  delib- 
erations and  actions. 

"(4)  We  find  that  the  following  persons  reported  upon  by  the  ma- 
jority of  members  of  this  committee  are  not  entitled  to  seats  in  this  Con- 
vention and  should  not  be  placed  upon  its  permanent  roll : 

DELEGATES. 

Coleman  C.  Wallace,  Leonard  W.  Bethurem, 

ALTERNATES. 

J.  B.  Kinchelo,  George  W.  Gentry. 

"(5)  And  we  further  report  that  in  place  of  the  said  persons  the 
following  persons  were  duly  elected  and  are  legally  entitled  to  seats  in 
this  Convention,  and  should  be  seated  and  accredited  to  their  respective 
States  and  districts,  as  follows : 

DELEGATES. 

William  S.  Lawwill,  H.  V.  Bastin, 

And  Their  Alternates." 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  move  the  adoption  of  the  substitute. 
MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  the  motion  on  the  table. 
The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  was  agreed  to. 
The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  members  will 
be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll. 

FOURTH  LOUISIANA  DISTRICT. 

MR.  MAURICE  L.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky,  from  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials, submitted  the  following  report  with  respect  to  the  contest  in  the 
Fourth  District  of  Louisiana : 

"The  committee,  after  a  thorough  and  complete  investigation  of  the 
facts  in  the  contest  from  the  Fourth  Louisiana  District,  recommends  that 
the  delegates  from  this  district  now  upon  the  temporary  roll,  as  well  as 


232  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 

their  alternates,  be  transferred  to  the  permanent  roll,  to  wit:  A.  C.  Lea 
and  J.  B.  Breda,  and  their  alternates. 

"These  delegates  were  elected  at  a  district  convention,  duly  called 
by  the  regular  Republican  district  organization,  which  had  adhered  to  the 
Republican  State  organization,  and  has  been  recognized  by  the  sub-com- 
mittee of  the  Republican  National  Committee.  This  sub-committee  of 
the  National  Committee  visited  Louisiana  this  year  in  order  to  settle  the 
political  controversy  in  that  State.  The  Williams-Wight  delegation,  which 
is  the  contesting  or  Roosevelt  delegation  in  this  contest,  was  not  recog- 
nized by  this  sub-committee  of  the  National  Committee.  This  Roosevelt 
delegation  from  this  district  was  elected  at  a  pretended  convention,  con- 
sisting of  a  mere  handful  of  men,  who  assembled  in  response  to  a  call 
issued  by  F.  V.  Williams,  who  has  been  deposed  as  chairman  of  the  State 
Committee.  The  Williams-Wight  delegation  represents  no  regular  Re- 
publican organization  in  Louisiana,  since  they  have  been  discredited  by 
this  sub-committee  of  the  National  Committee,  and  consequently  Lea  and 
Breda  have  been  lawfully  and  regularly  elected." 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — There  being  no  minority  report,  Hie 
question  is  on  agreeing  to  the  report  just  read. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  members  will 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Convention  will  receive  a  report 
from  the  Committee  on  Credentials  upon  the  contest  in  the  Fifth  District 
of  Louisiana. 

FIFTH  LOUISIANA  DISTRICT. 

MR.  JOHN  H.  EARLY,  of  Tennessee. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  am  directed  to 
present  the  unanimous  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  upon  the 
contest  in  the  Fifth  District  of  Louisiana,  and  after  it  has  been  read  by 
the  Secretary  I  shall  move  its  adoption. 

The  Secretary  read  the  report  as  follows : 

"The  committee  recommends  that  the  delegates  from  the  Fifth  Lou- 
isiana District  now  upon  the  temporary  roll,  as  well  as  their  alternates, 
be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll,  to  wit :  C.  D.  Insley  and  F.  H.  Cook, 
and  their  alternates. 

"These  delegates  were  elected  at  a  district  convention  duly  called 
and  regularly  held.  The  main  points  in  this  case  are  much  like  those 
which  appeared  in  the  preceding  case  of  the  Fourth  Louisiana  District. 
The  convention  first  called  had  to  be  postponed  because  the  district  was 
flooded  by  the  overflow  of  the  Mississippi  River.  C.  D.  Insley  and  F.  H* 
Cook  were  regularly  elected,  and  they  and  their  alternates  are  entitled 
to  be  seated  in  this  Convention." 

MR.  EARLY,  of  Tennessee. — I  move  the  adoption  of  the  report. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  233 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — This  being  a  unanimous  report,  the 
question  is  on  its  adoption. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  members  will 
be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll. 

MICHIGAN  DELEGATES-AT-LARGE. 

MR.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado,  from  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  sub- 
mitted the  following  report : 

"The  Committee  on  Credentials  makes  the  following  report  relative 
to  the  contest  from  the  State  of  Michigan : 

"The  question  before  the  committee  was  who  constituted  the  regular 
Republican  State  Convention.  Incidental  to  this  question,  certain  subsidi- 
ary questions  arose  which  the  committee  determines  as  follows : 

"(1)  The  pre-convention  meeting  of  the  State  Central  Committee 
was  a  legal  one,  a  majority  of  the  members  thereof  having  joined  in  a 
call  therefor.  It  appears  that  no  rules  were  ever  adopted  by  the  com- 
mittee, and  there  are,  therefore,  no  regulations  as  to  who  shall  call  meet- 
ings or  when  they  shall  be  held,  and  a  majority  necessarily  possessed  the 
right  to  call  a  meeting  and  to  hold  a  meeting. 

"(2)  It  is  unquestionably  the  duty  of  the  committee  to  make  up  the 
temporary  roll  for  the  convention.  Some  authority  must  exist  somewhere 
which  shall  determine  who  shall  participate  in  a  convention  until  such 
time  as  the  convention  shall  determine  that  question  for  itself.  In  other 
words,  it  is  the  duty  of  the  committee  to  see  that  the  convention  which 
assembles  is  the  one  which  is  called. 

"(3)  The  State  Central  Committee  has  the  right  to  select  the  Tem- 
porary Chairman  of  the  convention.  It  therefore  can  rescind  its  action 
and  unmake  what  it  has  created.  The  chairman  first  selected  admitted  that 
he  would  permit  no  roll  calls  in  the  convention  and  that  all  votes  would 
be  taken  viva  voce. 

"(4)  Delegates'  tickets  to  the  convention  were  issued  to  the  chair- 
men of  delegations  by  the  proper  officers  of  the  State  Central  Committee 
under  direction  of  the  committee.  They  were  issued  in  a  public  and  con- 
spicuous place  in  ample  time  for  the  convention.  The  time  and  place  of 
distribution  were  matters  of  common  knowledge,  and  no  showing  -of 
discrimination  in  their  distribution  has  been  made  to  this  committee. 

"The  doors  of  the  convention  were  kept  open  at  all  times  for  the 
admission  of  delegates,  with  the  exception  of  one  interval,  when  there 
was  a  rush  by  the  crowd.  During  this  time  the  doors  were  temporarily 
closed,  all  delegates  not  yet  admitted  were  excluded  for  the  time  being. 
Taft  delegates  were  excluded  as  well  as  Roosevelt  delegates,  and  as  many 
of  one  as  the  other.  As  soon  as  adequate  police  protection  was  secured, 
which  was  before  the  convention  was  organized,  the  doors  were  reopened 


234  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

and  remained  open  throughout  the  entire  session  of  the  convention.  There 
was  no  discrimination  in  admitting  delegates  to  the  convention. 

"(5)  The  so-called  convention  at  which  contestants  claim  they  were 
chosen  was  not  a  convention  in  any  sense  of  the  term.  No  committees 
whatever  were  appointed,  the  credentials  of  the  persons  participating  were 
not  presented  to  or  acted  upon  by  any  committee  or  by  the  so-called  con- 
vention itself;  no  one  knows  who  took  part  in  it;  there  is  no  evidence 
whatever  of  the  number  of  votes  cast  for  the  contestants;  no  business 
provided  for  in  the  call  was  transacted,  except  the  pretended  selection  of 
delegates  and  alternates  to  the  National  Convention  and  the  pretended 
adoption  of  resolutions;  not  to  exceed  fifty  persons  participated,  and, 
when  these  persons  finally  left  the  convention,  not  to  exceed  two  hundred 
delegates  left  with  them,  out  of  a  total  number  of  1,312. 

"(6)  The  regular  convention  was  at  all  times  conducted  in  a  proper 
manner.  The  call  was  read  and  a  vote  taken  on  the  question  of  the  selec- 
tion of  temporary  chairman ;  reports  of  district  caucuses  were  received 
and  confirmed;  committees  were  constituted  and  convened  and  their  re- 
ports made  and  adopted ;  delegates-at-large  and  alternates  were  elected  ; 
presidential  electors  were  nominated;  the  present  members  of  the  State 
Central  Committee  and  a  chairman  thereof  were  selected;  roll  calls  by 
counties  were  had  on  the  question  of  the  selection  of  a  temporary  chair- 
man, the  adoption  of  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  and  the 
Committee  on  Permanent  Organization  and  Order  of  Business  and  on  the 
election  of  delegates-at-large;  resolutions  were  reported  and  adopted;  ad- 
dresses were  made  by  party  leaders,  and  all  of  the  business  provided  for 
in  the  call  was  transacted.  An  adjournment  was  regularly  taken.  At 
all  times  there  were  nearly  a  thousand  delegates  in  the  hall  out  of  a  total 
of  1,312,  as  is  shown  by  the  report  of  the  Credentials  Committee,  the 
several  roll  calls  and  affidavits  of  the  chairmen  of  delegations  who  par- 
ticipated. 

"No  contests  were  presented  to  the  State  Central  Committee  before 
the  Convention,  to  Committee  on  Credentials  appointed  by  the  convention, 
or  to  the  convention  itself. 

"The  committee,  therefore;  determines  that  there  is  no  just  cause  for 
contest  in  this  case.  The  delegates-at-large  and  alternates  to  the  National 
Convention  from  Michigan  whose  names  appear  on  the  temporary  roll 
were  selected  at  a  State  Convention  properly  and  regularly  called;  they 
received  a  majority  of  all  of  the  votes  in  the  convention  without  counting 
the  votes  of  any  delegations  which  contestants  alleged  or  now  allege  were 
subject  to  contest. 

"The  Committee  on  Credentials,  therefore,  recommends  that  the 
names  of  John  D.  McKay,  William  J.  Richards.  George  B.  Morley,  Eu- 
gene Fifield,  Fred  A.  Diggins  and  William  Judson,  as  delegates-at-large 
from  the  State  of  Michigan,  and  the  names  of  Alton  T.  Roberts,  Herbert 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  235 

A.  Thompson,  Crawford  S.  Reilley,  Charles  B.  Warren,  Charles  E.  White 
and  Ray  E.  Hart,  as  alternate  delegates-at-large  from  such  State,  be 
transferred  from  the  temporary  roll  of  this  Convention  and  added  to  and 
made  a  part  of  the  permanent  roll  thereof." 

MR.  JOHN  J.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  in 
behalf  of  twelve  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  I  move  as  a 
substitute  the  following  report,  which  I  ask  to  have  read. 

The  views  of  the  minority  were  read  as  follows : 

"We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of 
the  National  Republican  Committee,  hereby  submit  the  following  report: 

"(1)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  members  of  the 
committee  in  sitting  upon  and  participating  in  the  actions  of  the  commit- 
tee:  Mr.  J.  C.  Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas,  and 
Mr.  W.  T.  Dovell,  of  Washington,  for  the  reason  that  each  of  these  men 
was  elected  by  entire  delegations  whose  seats  are  contested. 

"(2)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  men:  Mr.  J.  C. 
Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas,  and  Mr.  W.  T.  Do- 
vell, of  Washington,  from  participating  in  and  voting  upon  the  questions 
in  any  of  the  contests,  on  the  ground  that  they  are  in  effect  sitting  as 
judges  in  their  own  cases. 

"(3)  We  protest  against  Mr.  Thomas  H.  Devine,  of  Colorado;  Mr. 
Fred  W.  Estabrook,  of  New  Hampshire ;  Mr.  Henry  Blun,  Jr.,  of  Geor- 
gia; Mr.  L.  B.  Moseley,  of  Mississippi,  and  Mr.  L.  P.  Shackleford,  of 
Alaska,  sitting  as  members  of  this  committee,  for  the  reasons  that  they 
were  members  of  the  National  Committee  and  participated  in  its  deliber- 
ations and  actions. 

"(4)  We  find  that  the  following  persons  reported  upon  by  the  ma- 
jority of  members  of  this  committee  are  not  entitled  to  seats  in  this 
Convention,  and  should  not  be  placed  upon  its  permanent  roll : 

MICHIGAN. 
STATE-AT-LARGE. 
DELEGATES. 
John  D.  Mackay, 
William  J.  Richards, 

George  B.  Moreley,  And  Their  Alternates. 

Eugene  Fifield, 
Fred  A.  Diggins, 
William  Judson. 

"(5)  And  we  further  report  that  in  place  of  the  said  persons  the 
following  persons  were  duly  elected  and  are  legally  entitled  to  seats  in 
this  Convention,  and  should  be  seated  and  accredited  to  their  respective 
States  and  districts,  as  follows : 


236  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 

MICHIGAN. 
STATE-AT-LARGE. 
DELEGATES. 

Chase  S.  Osborn, 

Charles  A.  Nichols, 

Sybrant  Wessalius,  And  Their  Alternates. 

Theodore  Joslin, 

Herbert  F.  Boughey, 

William  D.  Gordon. 

HARRY  SHAW,  West  Virginia. 
JESSE  M.  LIBBY,  Maine. 
W.  S.  LANDER,  North  Dakota. 
JOHN  BOYD  OTIS,  New  Jersey. 
JOHN  J.  SULLIVAN,  Ohio. 
JESSE  A.  TOLERTON,  Missouri. 
R.  R.  McCoRMicK,  Illinois. 
(By  John  E.  Wilder.) 
R.  A.  HARRIS,  Kansas. 
HUGH  T.  HUTTON. 
L.  H.  MITCHELL,  Pennsylvania. 
(By  Wm.  P.  Young,  Proxy.)" 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  move  that  the  views  of  the  minority  be 
substituted  for  the  majority  report. 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana.— Mr.  Chairman,  I  move  to  lay 
on  the  table  the  motion  of  the  gentleman  from  Ohio  (Mr.  Sullivan),  but 
yield  for  a  statement  on  each  side. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  Michigan  (Mr. 
Calvin  A.  Palmer)  is  recognized  to  speak  on  behalf  of  the  minority. 

MR.  CALVIN  A.  PALMER,  of  Michigan. — Mr.  Chairman,  fellow  Repub- 
lican delegates,  ladies  and  gentlemen :  On  behalf  of  the  great  State  of 
Michigan,  which  gave  birth  to  the  party  that  you  are  representing  here 
to-day,  I  ask  you  to  give  me  five  minutes  to  present  to  you  the  claims  of 
the  minority  upon  the  Michigan  delegation-at-large  in  this  Convention, 
who  represent  the  majority  of  Republicans  in  the  State  of  Michigan 
(Applause.) 

I  ask  you  to  let  me  relate  just  two  facts  in  connection  with  the  elec- 
tion of  the  delegates-at-large  from  Michigan.  You  have  heard  a  great 
deal  said  in  this  Convention  about  regularity.  It  was  pleaded  from  this 
platform  the  first  day,  the  second  day,  and  every  day,  and  we  who  repre- 
sent the  Roosevelt  campaign  in  Michigan  are  now  before  you  asking  you 
to  recognize  regularity  in  a  State  Convention  in  our  State.  (Applause.) 
I  am  only  going  to  put  before  you  one  proposition.  I  know  it  will 
appeal  to  the  Roosevelt  delegates  here,  and  it  ought  to  appeal  to  the  Taft 
delegates  who  have  been  arguing  for  regularity. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  237 

The  State  Convention  convened  in  Bay  City,  Michigan,  on  April  llth, 
and  was  called  to  order  regularly  by  the  Chairman  of  the  State  Central 
Committee.  Immediately  a  gentleman  asked  for  the  floor,  was  recog- 
nized by  the  Chairman,  went  upon  the  platform,  and  stood  there  as  inno- 
cently as  I  stand  before  you.  He  was  attacked  from  behind  by  a  Taft 
representative  and  knocked  to  the  floor  of  that  convention  hall.  I  want 
to  ask  you,  gentlemen,  if  that  was  regularity?  Immediately  after  there 
was  another  convention  organized  on  the  other  side  of  the  hall,  called 
to  order,  not  by  the  Chairman  of  the  State  Central  Committee  of  Mich- 
igan, but  by  a  hireling  of  that  committee. 

Which  convention  was  regular,  gentlemen?  Are  we  entitled  to  have 
our  delegates-at-large  seated  in  this  Convention?  That  delegation,  gen- 
tlemen, is  headed  by  the  great  Governor  of  the  State  of  Michigan,  who, 
except  for  a  broken  leg,  would  have  been  in  this  Convention,  fighting  for 
the  things  we  demand. 

A  DELEGATE. — He  has  a  broken  leg? 

MR.  PALMER,  of  Michigan. — Yes,  he  has  a  broken  leg;  and  if  yon 
keep  up  the  game  you  have  been  playing  here,  the  Republican  party  will 
have  a  broken  back.  (Laughter.) 

I  have  reminded  you  that  the  State  of  Michigan  is  the  birthplace  of 
this  party  of  ours.  Under  the  oaks  at  Jackson  the  State  of  Michigan 
gave  birth  to  the  Republican  party.  Recently  there  has  been  noted  upon 
the  old  oaks  there  in  Jackson  a  peculiar  color  upon  the  leaves.  They  are 
covered  with  dark  circles.  At  night  they  moan  and  sigh.  \Ve  have  sent 
naturalists  and  experts  there  to  make  a  diagnosis  of  the  old  oaks  at  Jack- 
son, but  they  are  unable  to  decide  whether  those  old  oaks  are  moaning 
and  sighing  because  of  their  disappointment  in  their  child,  or  whether 
they  are  getting  ready  to  give  birth  to  another  child.  (Applause.) 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Mr.  John  D.  MacKay,  of  Michigan,  is 
recognized  for  five  minutes  to  speak  on  behalf  of  the  majority. 

MR.  JOHN  D.  MACKAY,  of  Michigan. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen 
of  the  Convention :  If  there  is  one  contest  before  this  Convention  in 
which  there  is  absolutely  no  merit,  it  is  the  contest  against  Michigan's 
six  delegates-at-large ;  and  one  of  the  delegates,  a  Roosevelt  delegate  who 
sits  in  our  delegation  from  the  Fifth  District,  will  tell  you  so.  (Noise 
and  confusion  on  the  floor.)  I  suppose,  gentlemen,  you  at  least  believe  in 
what  some  of  you  claim  to  be  your  motto,  a  square  deal.  You  do  not 
seem  to  want  to  listen  to  the  other  side  of  the  case. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  Michigan  cannot 
make  himself  heard  in  the  disorder,  and  prefers  not  to  proceed  further 
under  the  circumstances.  Accordingly,  the  Chair  will  now  put  the  mo- 
tion of  the  gentleman  from  Indiana  (Mr.  Watson)  to  lay  on  the  table 
the  motion  to  substitute  the  minority  report. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 


238  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  recurs  upon  the  motion 
to  adopt  the  report  of  the  committee. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  delegates-at- 
large  from  Michigan  will  be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll. 

ADJOURNMENT. 

MR.  JOHN  FRANKLIN  FORT,  of  New  Jersey. — I  move  that  the  Conven- 
tion adjourn  until  ten  o'clock  to-morrow  morning. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to;  and  (at  7  o'clock  and  38  minutes  p.  m.) 
the  Convention  adjourned  until  to-morrow,  Saturday,  June  22,  1912,  at 
10  o'clock  a.  m. 


FIFTH  DAY 


CONVENTION  HALL 

THE  COLISEUM, 

CHICAGO,    ILL.,    JUNE    22,    1912. 

The  Convention  met  at  10  o'clock  a.  m. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  proceedings  of  this  day  will  be 
opened  with  prayer  by  the  Rev.  John  Wesley  Hill,  D.D.,  President  of 
the  International  Peace  Forum,  New  York. 

PRAYER  OF  REV.  JOHN  WESLEY  HILL.  D.D, 

Rev.  John  Wesley  Hill,  D.D.,  President  of  the  International  Peace 
Forum,  New  York,  offered  the  following  prayer : 

O  Thou  Who  "sittest  upon  the  circle  of  the  heavens,"  unto  Whom 
all  things  come  in  beauty  and  perfection,  we  approach  Thee,  supported 
by  the  memories  of  past  mercies,  encouraged  by  the  tokens  of  Thy  love, 
lured  by  the  light  of  Thy  Word,  and  strengthened  by  the  inspiration  of 
Thy  Spirit. 

We  thank  Thee  that  unto  us  Thy  glory  has  been  revealed,  that  upon 
us  Thy  knowledge  has  dawned,  while  about  us  are  the  manifestations  of 
that  Providence  which  is  imminent  in  the  affairs  of  the  world! 

Wre  praise  Thee  for  Thy  enriching  blessings ;  for  the  laws  which  are 
in  league  with  us  and  the  forces  which  are  our  friends ;  for  the  wealth 
of  mountains,  and  that  more  real,  of  the  generous  soil ;  for  the  products 
of  the  field  and  forest  and  far  resounding  sea;  tor  home  and  school  and 
sanctuary ;  for  flag  and  country ;  for  light  and  liberty  and  life ;  and,  above 
all,  for  the  revelation  of  Thyself  in  the  face  of  Jesus  Christ. 

We  rejoice  in  the  great  things  represented  here  to-day — the  party  of 
freedom  and  equality,  courage  and  patriotism,  progress  and  prosperity, 
with  its  background  of  triumphant  history.  We  thank  Thee  for  the  prin- 
ciples, achievements  and  leaders  of  this  party;  for  Lincoln  and  Grant,  for 
Garfield,  Harrison  and  McKinley;  the  heroes  and  patriots  of  vanished 
years ;  yea,  the  patriots  of  to-day,  who  are  striving  for  the  maintenance  of 
that  democracy  which  is  the  guarantee  of  human  rights  and  equal  justice 
to  all. 

We  pray  Thy  blessing  upon  this  assembly,  these  delegates  upon  whom 
devolve  arduous  responsibilities.  Grant  unto  them  clearness  of  vision, 
strength  of  purpose,  and  purity  of  patriotism,  that  they  may  neither  falter 
nor  fail  in  the  execution  of  duty.  Bless,  we  pray  Thee,  the  President  of 

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240  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

the  United  States.  Bless  the  Governor  of  this  State  and  of  all  the  Statei. 
Bless  all  law-makers  and  magistrates.  Bless  our  entire  citizenship.  Grant 
that  we  may  be  possessed  of  a  knowledge  that  shall  dispel  darkness,  and 
a  virtue  that  shall  banish  evil.  And  so  may  we  dwell  together  in  liberty, 
walk  in  light,  and  prove  worthy  of  our  high  calling! 

We  pray  for  our  land  and  nation.  Save  us  from  vice  and  violence, 
envy  and  hatred,  restlessness,  revolution  and  ruin. 

Command  Thy  blessing,  we  pray  Thee,  not  alone  upon  our  own  land, 
but  upon  all  the  nations  of  the  earth,  and  especially  upon  the  nations  that 
grope  in  gloom.  Bring  upon  them  the  beauty  of  spring  and  the  fruitful- 
ness  of  summer,  and  hasten  the  cloudless  dawn  of  universal  peace,  wken 
the  war  drums  shall  be  heard  no  longer  and  when  the  battle  flags  shall  be 
furled  in  the  parliament  of  man.  And  unto  Thee  will  we  ascribe  the 
praise  and  glory  forever.  Amen. 

REPORTS  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  CREDENTIALS. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Convention  will  receive  further 
reports  from  the  Committee  on  Credentials. 

MR.  JAMES  A.  HEMENWAY,  of  Indiana. — From  the  Committee  on 
Credentials  I  submit  the  following  report. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  report  will  be  received  and  inserted 
in  the  record. 

The  report  is  as  follows : 

Statement  of  the  majority  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of  the  Repub- 
lican National  Convention  and  the  reports  of  the  minority. 

MAJORITY  REPORT. 

The  following  statement,  purporting  to  have  been  signed  by  certain 
members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of  the  Republican  National 
Convention,  appeared  this  morning  in  the  Chicago  Tribune : 

ROOSEVELT  CREDENTIALS  COMMITTEEMEN  STATE  THEIR  CASE  IN 
MINORITY  REPORT. 

This  convention  was  called  to  contain  1,078  delegates.  Of  this  one-quartet 
were  to  come  from  States  and  Territories  which  have  no  part  in  Republican  affairs, 
cast  no  Republican  vote,  and  are  practically  destitute  of  Republican  voters.  Such 
delegates  are  always  controlled  by  Federal  officeholders  or  others  interested  in  the 
management  of  Federal  office.  As  they  live  by  politics,  they  form  an  efficient  politi- 
cal machine. 

The  combination  between  these  and  one-quarter  of  the  delegates  from  the  Re- 
publican States  will  form  a  majority  of  the  convention.  In  other  words,  one-third  of 
the  representative  Republican  States  can,  by  manipulation,  dictate  to  two-thirds  of 
the  Republican  representatives. 

This  year  such  a  coalition   was  attempted,  but  a  majority  of  the  convention  was 


HOX.    RALPH    E.   WILLIAMS,  of  Oregon, 
Member  of  Committee  on  Arrangements. 


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not  obtainable  until  members  of  the  National  Committee,  who  have  been  repudiated 
by  their  own  States,  seated  a  sufficient  number  of  contested  delegates  to  give  a 
majority  on  the  temporary  roll  call. 

At  the  organization  of  the  convention  the  chairman  of  the  National  Committee, 
contrary  to  good  parliamentary  law  and  good  morals,  insisted  on  counting  the  ballots 
of  these  contested  delegates  on  the  preliminary  roll  call,  which  elected  the  temporary 
chairman.  Upon  the  motion  to  exclude  these  contested  delegates  from  participation 
in  the  deliberation  of  the  convention  upon  those  contested,  the  temporary  chairman 
ruled  that  they  should  sit  upon  their  own  contests. 

A  committee  upon  credentials  was  then  appointed,  upon  which  the  contested 
delegates  were  represented  and  seated. 

In  the  committee  on  credentials  a  coalition  was  formed  of  the  contested  dele- 
gates and  member  of  the  National  Committee  and  a  minority  of  the  representatives 
of  the  Republican  States. 

This  coalition  formed  a  substantial  majority  of  the  committee.  It  proposed  to 
prevent  the  hearing  of  all  of  the  testimony  by  limiting  the  contestants  on  delegates 
at  large  to  10  minutes  and  on  district  delegates  to  5  minutes  in  which  to  present 
their  cases,  and  did  not  agree  to  a  decent  amount  of  time  for  the  hearing  until  a 
number  of  the  unorganized  members  left  the  room  in  disgust. 

During  the  hearing  the  members  of  the  National  Committee,  who  were,  in  fact, 
sitting  upon  their  cases,  acted  as  attorneys  for  the  seated  delegates,  interfered  with 
an  orderly  procedure,  and  bullied  the  witnesses  of  the  contestants.  The  hearing,  if 
held  in  public,  would  have  aroused  the  scorn  of  all  spectators,  and  for  this  reason 
the  public  were  excluded. 

The  coalition  in  the  committee  is  bringing  in  reports  faster  than  they  can  be 
prepared,  making  it  evident  that  the  reports  have  been  prepared  beforehand  and 
merely  adopted  as  a  formality.  No  time  is  furnished  to  the  unorganized  delegates  to 
consider  their  cases  or  prepare  to  present  them  to  the  Convention. 

It  is,  therefore,  plain  that  if  these  contested  delegates  are  seated  they  will  not 
only  create  a  majority  of  which  less  than  one-half  represent  Republican  States,  but 
that  this  majority  will  also  be  composed  of  delegates  improperly  seated  in  violation 
of  good  parliamentary  law  and  common  morals. 

It  is  also  plain  that  this  is  not  accomplished  by  mere  partisanship,  but  it  is  the 
result  of  a  comprehensive  plan  prepared  in  advance  and  deliberately  carried  out  to 
control  the  Republican  Convention  against  the  Republican  voters. 

Robert  R.  McCormick,  Illinois ;  Hugh  T.  Halbert,  Minnesota ;  Clency 
St.  Clair,  Idaho;  R.  A.  Harris,  Kansas;  D.  J.  Norton,  Oklahoma; 
A.  V.  Swift,  Oregon;  J.  M.  Libby,  Maine;  Jesse  A.  Tolerton, 
Missouri;  Lex  N.  Mitchell,  Pennsylvania,  by  William  P.  Young, 
proxy;  Francis  J.  Heney,  California;  S.  X.  Way,  South  Dakota; 
Harry  Shaw,  West  Virginia;  H.  E.  Sackett,  Nebraska. 

This  statement,  having  been  called  to  the  attention  of  the  Chairman 
of  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  he  laid  it  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials  at  its  meeting  this  morning,  whereupon  a  motion  was  made 
and  carried  for  the  appointment  of  a  committee  of  six  to  report  as  to  the 
facts,  and  said  committee  reported  as  follows : 

During  the  discussion  on  the  adoption  of  the  motion  to  appoint  this 
committee,  Mr.  Mitchell,  of  Pennsylvania,  whose  name  appears  attached 
to  the  printed  statement,  said  that  he  did  not  sign  it  or  authorize  anyone 
to  sign  it  for  him,  and  that  plenty  of  time  had  been  given  for  the  hearing 
of  the  cases. 

Mr.  Jesse  A.  Tolerton,  of  Missouri,  whose  name  also  appears  attached 


242  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

to  the  statement,  also  stated  that  he  did  not  sign  it.  One  member  who 
had  signed  the  statement  indicated  by  remarks  during  the  discussion  that 
he  had  not  fully  understood  the  contents  of  the  statement  or  he  would 
not  have  signed  it.  Mr.  John  J.  Sullivan,  of  Ohio,  the  designated  floor 
leader  of  the  Roosevelt  people,  stated  that  although  the  statement  was 
presented  to  him,  he  had  declined  to  sign  it. 

Robert  R.  McCormick,  of  Illinois,  who  admitted  that  he  wrote  the 
statement,  was  not  present  at  the  meetings  of  the  committee  during  the 
consideration  of  cases  for  more  than  two  hours  in  all,  although  the  com- 
mittee was  in  continuous  session  at  one  time  for  over  36  hours  and  sat 
altogether  over  40  hours,  equivalent  to  five  8-hour  days. 

Francis  J.  Heney,  of  California,  who  signed  the  statement,  bolted  the 
committee,  shouting  "Follow  me  to  the  Florentine  room,"  before  the  rules 
of  the  committee  were  adopted  and  did  not  return  except  for  a  few  min- 
utes the  second  day  of  the  meeting,  when  he  attempted  to  create  confu- 
sion and  delay  the  proceedings.  He  did  not  hear  any  of  the  contests 
pending  before  the  committee  for  a  single  moment;  and  the  roll  calls  will 
show  that  many  of  those  who  signed  this  statement  and  bolted  with  Mr. 
Heney,  although  they  did  not  return,  were  present  only  a  comparatively 
short  portion  of  the  time  that  the  cases  were  being  heard. 

This  statement  as  a  whole  in  its  insinuations  of  combination,  of  un- 
worthy motive,  in  its  recital  of  alleged  facts,  is  grossly  and  maliciously 
untrue.  It  was  intended  to  convey  the  impression  that  the  time  for  hear- 
ing cases  was  so  limited  as  to  prevent  their  being  properly  presented  to 
the  committee.  The  untruthfulness  of  this  statement  is  clearly  shown  by 
the  records  of  the  committee  and  the  newspaper  reports  of  its  delibera- 
tions. Not  only  did  the  rules  make  liberal  provision  for  time  in  present- 
ing cases,  but  in  every  instance  where  the  parties  presenting  the  cases  or 
any  member  of  the  committee  asked  for  an  extension  of  time,  it  was 
granted. 

The  very  first  case  examined  by  the  committee,  the  much-discussed 
ninth  Alabama  case,  was  considered  for  over  three  hours,  and  the  con- 
sideration closed  by  unanimous  consent  of  everyone  present.  The  Indiana 
case,  although  it  had  been  unanimously  decided  by  the  National  Com- 
mittee, was  considered  for  over  five  hours  and  not  closed  -until  everyone 
had  agreed  to  its  conclusion.  The  Arkansas  case  and  all  other  cases  in 
their  order  were  given  all  the  time  requested  by  the  members  of  the  com- 
mittee, and  in  no  instance  during  the  whole  session  of  the  committee 
was  any  contestant  or  contestee  prevented  from  arguing  or  presenting 
evidence  as  long  as  any  member  of  the  committee  desired  him  to  do  so. 

The  foregoing  statement  alleges  that  there  was  a  combination  between 
certain  members  of  the  committee  on  credentials  and  members  of  the 
National  Committee  and  others,  under  which  these  members  of  the  com- 
mittee on  credentials  sustained  decisions  of  the  National  Committee  with- 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  243 

out  regard  to  their  merit.  Such  a  statement  is  not  only  absolutely  untrue, 
but  the  parties  who  signed  it  must  have  known  that  it  was  untrue;  and 
while  the  undersigned  do  not  desire  to  impugn  the  motives  of  any  member 
on  the  committee,  we  desire  to  call  attention  to  the  fact  that,  with  one  ex- 
ception, those  who  signed  this  statement  and  those  who  generally  voted 
with  them  voted  in  every  single  case  to  seat  delegates  known  to  be  for 
Mr.  Roosevelt,  including  a  number  of  cases  on  which  the  action  of  the 
National  Committee  had  been  unanimous  against  such  delegates. 

In  regard  to  the  assertion  that  reports  were  prepared  in  advance  of 
the  action  of  the  committee  on  credentials,  no  one  of  the  gentlemen  who 
makes  this  statement  will  state  of  his  own  personal  knowledge  that  any 
reports  were  thus  made.  The  Convention  having  adjourned  from  time  to 
time  because  of  the  slow  progress  being  made  by  the  committee  on 
credentials,  partial  reports  were  made  from  time  to  time  in  order  to  facili- 
tate the  business  of  the  Convention,  all  of  which  reports  were  prepared 
after  the  cases  had  been  acted  upon  by  the  committee. 

The  statement  that  the  proceedings  of  the  committee  were  not  given 
full  publicity  is  unqualifiedly  and  notoriously  false.  The  five  press  asso- 
ciations of  the  country  were  represented  at  all  times  during  the  meetings 
and  hearings  of  the  committee,  and  they  reported  the  proceedings  at 
length. 

As  to  the  merits  of  these  contested  cases  upon  which  the  committee 
passed,  it  should  be  remembered  that  the  National  Committee  sat  for  15 
days  hearing  evidence  and  argument  upon  them.  Out  of  a  total  member- 
ship of  53  only  13  members  of  that  committee  objected  to  the  findings 
and  decisions,  and  they  only  with  regard  to  a  part  of  the  cases,  the  action 
of  the  committee  having  been  unanimous  with  regard  to  a  majority  of 
them.  The  Convention  declined,  by  a  substantial  majority,  to  reverse  the 
action  of  the  National  Committee,  and  it  referred  the  contested  cases  to 
the  committee  on  credentials.  When  our  committee  met,  rules  were 
adopted  by  unanimous  vote.  No  one  desiring  to  make  complaint  as  to 
the  seating  of  any  delegate  was  prevented  from  presenting  his  case.  The 
committee  even  considered  cases  which  had  been  decided  by  a  unanimous 
vote  of  the  National  Committee,  notably  the  Indiana  case. 

The  committee  on  credentials  of  the  Republican  National  Convention 
consists  of  53  members.  The  committee  in  every  case  sustained  the  de- 
cision of  the  National  Committee,  and  in  no  case  by  majorities  of  less 
than  two-thirds.  This  statement  of  facts,  indorsed  by  40  members  of  the 
committee,  who  listened  patiently  through  all-day  and  all-night  sessions  to 
evidence  and  argument  in  order  to  be  able  to  judge  cases  intelligently  and 
pass  upon  them  honestly,  should  be  a  sufficient  answer  to  the  reckless  in- 
warranted,  and  untruthful  assertions  contained  in  the  statement  signed 
by  11  members  of  the  committee,  two  of  whom  did  not  attend  sessions 
of  the  committee,  did  not  hear  any  of  the  evidence  presented,  and  nearly 


244  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE 

all  of  whom  indicated  their  bias  by  voting  in  every  case  for  the  delegates 
known  to  be  favorable  to  Mr.  Roosevelt,  including  numerous  cases  in 
which  the  action  of  the  National  Committee  had  been  unanimous  for  the 
Taft  delegates. 

[The  above  report  was  prepared  by  a  subcommittee  appointed  by  the 
committee  on  credentials ;  the  report  was  adopted  by  the  full  committee 
and  made  part  of  its  report  to  the  Convention.  The  subcommittee  was 
composed  of  J.  A.  Hemenway,  of  Indiana;  Frank  W.  Mondell,  of  Wyom- 
ing; Fred  W.  Estabrook,  of  New  Hampshire;  George  R.  Malby,  of  New 
York,  and  Henry  Blun,  Jr.,  of  Georgia.] 

MISSISSIPPI  DELEGATES-AT-LARGE. 

MR.  MAURICE  L.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  am  directed 
by  the  Committee  on  Credentials  to  submit  a  report  on  the  contest  with 
respect  to  the  delegates-at-large  from  the  State  of  Mississippi.  I  will  ask 
the  Secretary  to  read  it,  and  then  I  will  move  its  adoption. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Secretary  will  read  as  requested. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 

"The  delegates-at-large  from  the  State  of  Mississippi,  consisting  of 
L.  B.  Moseley,  M.  J.  Mulvihill,  Charles  Banks  and  L.  K.  Atwood  and 
their  alternates,  are  the  only  delegation  representing  Mississippi  at  large 
who  were  duly  elected,  and  the  Committee  finds  that  they  are  entitled 
to  be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll.  The  State  convention  which  elected 
Mr.  Moseley  and  his  colleagues  was  conducted  strictly  in  accordance  with 
the  call  of  the  National  Committee.  Due  notice  was  given,  and  all  nec- 
essary formality  was  complied  with.  The  number  of  delegates  entitled 
to  seats  in  the  Convention  was  two  hundred  and  seventy-four,  all  of  whom 
were  present  but  two.  There  were  three  contests,  which  were  settled  by 
giving  each  side  one-half  vote  each.  No  other  contests  were  presented  to 
the  convention  or  to  the  Committee  on  Credentials.  There  was  a  division 
on  the  vote  instructing  the  delegates-at-large  to  vote  for  Taft,  but  the 
resolution  was  adopted  by  two  hundred  and  fifty-eight  ayes  to  twelve  nays, 
two  not  voting.  All  the  delegates  remained  in  the  convention  until  it 
adjourned,  and  were  given  full  and  free  speech  on  all  matters.  A  few 
persons,  not  over  twenty  in  number,  assembled  in  another  part  of  the 
building  where  the  regular  convention  was  being  held  and  pretended  to 
hold  a  State  convention.  Several  entirely  disinterested  witnesses,  men  of 
high  standing,  testified  to  the  absolute  correctness  of  the  above  statements. 
There  is  no  ground  on  which  to  base  a  contest  against  these  regularly 
elected  delegates  from  the  State  at  large,  and  they  should  be  seated." 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  recognizes  the  gentleman 
from  Ohio  (Mr.  Sullivan),  to  present  the  views  of  the  minority. 

MR.  JOHN  J.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — On  behalf  of  the  minority  of  the 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  245 

Committee  on  Credentials,  I  move  as  a  substitute  the  following : 

"We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  of 
the  National  Republican  Committee,  hereby  submit  the  following  report : 

"(1)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  members  of  the 
Committee  in  sitting  upon  and  participating  in  the  actions  of  the  Com- 
mittee: Mr.  J.  C.  Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas, 
and  Mr.  W.  T.  Dovell,  of  Washington,  for  the  reason  that  each  of  these 
men  was  elected  by  entire  delegations  whose  seats  are  contested. 

"(2)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  men:  Mr.  J.  C. 
Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas,  and  Mr.  W.  T.  Do- 
vell, of  Washington,  from  participating  in  and  voting  upon  the  questions 
in  any  of  the  contests,  on  the  ground  that  they  are  in  effect  sitting  as 
judges  in  their  own  cases. 

"(3)  We  protest  against  Mr.  Thomas  H.  Devine,  of  Colorado;  Mr. 
Fred  W.  Estabrook,  of  New  Hampshire;  Mr.  Henry  Blun,  Jr.,  of  Geor- 
gia; Mr.  L.  B.  Moseley,  of  Mississippi,  and  Mr.  L.  P.  Shackle  ford,  of 
Alaska,  sitting  as  members  of  this  Committee,  for  the  reasons  that  they 
were  members  of  the  National  Committee  and  participated  in  its  delib- 
erations and  actions. 

"(4)  We  find  that  the  following  persons  reported  upon  by  the  ma- 
jority of  members  of  this  Committee  are  not  entitled  to  seats  in  this 
Convention  and  should  not  be  placed  upon  its  permanent  roll. 

"MISSISSIPPI. 
"STATE  AT   LARGE. 
"Delegates. 
"L.   B.   Moseley 

"M.   J.   Mulvihill  and   their   alternates. 

"Charles  Banks 
"L.    K.    At  wood 

"(5)  And  we  further  report  that  in  place  of  the  said  persons  the 
following  persons  were  duly  elected  and  are  legally  entitled  to  seats  in 
this  Convention,  and  should  be  seated  and  accredited  to  their  respective 
States  and  Districts,  as  follows : 

"MISSISSIPPI. 
"STATE  AT   LARGE. 
"Delegates. 
"W.  E.  Mollisa 

"Sidney   D.    Redmond  and  their  alternates. 

"L.    W.    Graham 
"Charles  Banks 

"JESSE  M.  LIBBY 
"W.   S.   LAUDER 
"JOHN    BOYD    AVIS 
"JOHN   J.    SULLIVAN,    Ohio." 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  on  the  table  the 


246  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

motion  to  substitute  the  views  of  the  minority  for  the  majority  report. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  delegates  will 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

SECOND    MISSISSIPPI    DISTRICT. 

MR.  MAURICE  L.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — I  submit  a  report  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Credentials  on  the  Second  District  of  Mississippi,  and  move  its 
adoption. 

The  report  was  read  as  follows: 

"The  Committee  recommends  the  seating  of  J.  F.  Butler  and  E.  H. 
McKissack,  as  delegates,  and  T.  W.  Dubois  and  S.  M.  Howry,  as  alter- 
nates, from  the  Second  Mississippi  District.  There  was  only  one  Con- 
gressional Convention  held  in  this  district,  and  that  was  held  under  the 
authority  of  the  regular  Republican  organization.  Due  notice  was  given 
of  the  meeting,  and  the  proceedings  were  regular  in  every  respect.  Not  a 
single  contest  arose,  and  no  one  bolted,  all  the  delegates  remaining  in 
the  convention  hall  until  the  meeting  adjourned.  No  one  entitled  to  a 
seat  in  the  convention  was  denied  admission,  and  there  was  no  other 
convention  held.  Jonas  W.  Avant,  of  Lafayette  County,  one  of  the  con- 
testants, tried  to  address  the  regular  convention,  but  was  refused  per- 
mission to  talk  as  he  was  not  a  qualified  elector.  The  sheriff  of  Lafay- 
ette County  testifies  that  Avant  is  not  a  registered  or  qualified  voter  of 
the  county,  that  he  has  not  paid  his  poll  tax  for  years,  and  that  he  it 
entirely  disqualified  from  registering  as  a  voter. 

"This  case  is  a  fair  sample  of  the  paper  contests  which  are  frequently 
brought  before  the  Republican  National  Convention.  While  the  regular 
district  convention  was  being  held,  Avant,  with  five  others,  went  to  the 
store  of  H.  W.  Doxey,  while  the  latter  was  attending  the  convention,  and 
pretended  to  hold  a  convention  of  their  own.  The  testimony  shows  that 
no  convention  had  been  called  to  meet  at  this  store,  that  no  legal  conven- 
tion was  held  there,  that  Avant  and  the  five  men  who  met  with  him  used 
a  desk  in  the  back  part  of  the  store  for  a  few  minutes,  that  they  were 
not  delegates  to  the  regular  convention,  and  only  represented  two  of  the 
nine  counties  composing  that  Congressional  District.  The  contest  brought 
in  this  case  is  of  the  most  flimsy  character,  and  Butler  and  McKissack 
and  their  alternates  are  entitled  to  be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll." 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — There  being  no  minority  report,  the 
question  is  on  the  adoption  of  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  delegates  will 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  247 

FIFTH    MISSISSIPPI   DISTRICT. 

MR.  MAURICE  L.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — From  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials I  submit  a  report  on  the  Fifth  Mississippi  District.  I  ask  the 
Secretary  to  read  it. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 

"The  Committee  recommends  that  W.  J.  Price  and  A.  Buckley  be 
transferred  from  the  temporary  roll  of  this  Convention,  as  representa- 
tives of  the  Fifth  Congressional  District  of  Mississippi  to  the  National 
Republican  Convention,  to  the  permanent  roll.  They  are  the  regularly 
elected  delegates,  as  the  affidavits  and  evidence  introduced  during  the 
hearing  of  this  particular  case  made  manifest.  Their  election  and  the 
call  of  their  convention  was  in  strict  conformity  with  the  National  call. 
The  proceedings  of  the  convention  itself  and  all  the  preliminaries  were 
in  due  and  legal  form.  There  was  no  contest  in  the  convention,  and  at 
all  times  it  was  very  harmonious.  Orderly  procedure  was  observed  during 
the  entire  convention,  and  at  the  conclusion  of  business  and  the  election 
of  delegates  proper  adjournment  was  moved. 

"It  has  never  appeared  upon  exactly  what  ground  the  contestants 
base  their  claim.  What  brief  they  may  have  had  did  not  present  to  this 
Committee  any  facts,  nor  were  any  facts  proven  during  this  hearing 
which  would  warrant  this  Committee  in  the  slightest  to  challenge  the 
rights  of  Mr.  Price  and  Mr.  Buckley  to  their  place  on  the  permanent  roll." 

MR.  MAURICE  L.  GALVINV,  of  Kentucky. — I  move  the  adoption  of  the 
report. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — There  being  no  minority  report,  the 
question  is  on  the  adoption  of  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  delegates  will 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

SIXTH    MISSISSIPPI   DISTRICT. 

MR.  MAURICE  L.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — I  submit  a  report  from  the 
Committee  on  Credentials  on  the  Sixth  District  of  Mississippi.  I  ask  that 
it  be  read. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 

"In  the  Sixth  Mississippi  District  J.  C.  Tyler  and  W.  P.  Locker  were 
found  by  the  Committee  to  be  the  regularly  elected  delegates  and  entitled 
to  be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll  of  the  Convention.  The  district 
convention  was  held  strictly  in  accordance  with  the  call  of  the  National 
Committee.  The  proceedings  were  of  the  most  orderly  and  harmonious 
character,  no  contesting  delegations  appeared,  and  no  other  convention 
was  held  in  the  same  town  that  day.  J.  M.  Leaverett  and  Charles  M. 


248  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

Hayes  claim  to  have  been  elected  by  a  convention  held  that  day  under 
the  call  for  the  regular  convention.  Several  witnesses  of  the  highest 
standing,  including  several  county  officials,  testified  that  they  saw  the 
two  contestants  in  the  town  of  Mendelhall  the  day  the  convention  met, 
but  that  none  of  them  were  seen  in  town  after  the  departure  that  day  of 
the  twelve-forty  train,  the  train  which  brought  into  town  most  of  the  dele- 
gates to  the  convention.  They  had  absolutely  no  grounds  on  which  to 
base  their  contest.  The  Committee  recommends  that  J.  C.  Tyler  and  W. 
P.  Locker  and  their  alternates  be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll  of  the 
Convention." 

MR.  MAURICE  L.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — I  move  that  the  report  DC 
agreed  to. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  delegates  will 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

SEVENTH    MISSISSIPPI    DISTRICT. 

MR.  MAURICE  L.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — I  present  to  the  Convention 
the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  on  the  Seventh  Mississippi 
District.  I  ask  that  the  Secretary  read  the  report. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Secretary  will  read  as  requested. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows: 

"The  Committee  recommends  that  E.  F.  Brennan,  Sr.,  and  C.  R. 
Ligon,  delegates  from  the  Seventh  Mississippi  Congressional  District,  and 
their  alternates,  be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll  of  this  Convention. 
They  are  the  rightful  delegates  from  the  Seventh  Mississippi  District, 
as  has  been  evidenced  before  this  Committee  by  affidavits  and  overwhelm- 
ing proof.  The  convention  which  elected  them  was  regular  in  every 
respect.  All  preliminaries  were  duly  observed.  The  sheriff  of  the  county 
in  which  the  convention  was  held  testifies  it  was  the  most  orderly  Repub- 
lican convention  ever  held  there,  and  that  it  was  largely  attended.  He 
says  no  other  Republican  convention  was  held  in  the  court  house  the  day 
the  regular  convention  met.  The  claim  that  the  contestants,  F.  S.  Swalm 
and  Dr.  W.  H.  Broxton,  were  elected  delegates,  and  Dr.  C.  L.  Ripley 
and  F.  S.  Crawford,  alternates,  has  absolutely  no  foundation.  F.  S. 
Swalm  has  lived  in  Brockhaven  fifteen  or  sixteen  years  and  never  partici- 
pated in  a  Republican  convention  in  his  life.  Dr.  Ripley,  of  the  same* 
place,  says  he  knows  nothing  whatever  of  any  convention  which  elected 
him  as  an  alternate,  and  that  he  never  participated  in  any.  Dr.  Broxton 
and  Professor  Crawford  are  not  known  by  residents  of  Darbun,  where 
they  claim  to  live,  and  no  such  persons  were  in  Brockhaven  on  the  day 
the  regular  district  convention  met  and  elected  Brennan  and  Ligon  dele- 
gates to  the  National  Convention." 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  249 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — There  being  no  minority  report,  the 
question  is  on  agreeing  to  the  report  submitted  by  the  Committee  on 
Credentials. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  delegates  will 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

FOURTH   NORTH  CAROLINA  DISTRICT. 

MR.  MAURICE  L.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — From  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials I  submit  a  report  on  the  Fourth  North  Carolina  District. 

The  report  was  read  as  follows : 

"The  Committee  on  Credentials  recommends  that  John  Matthews  and 
J.  C.  L.  Harris,  delegates  from  the  Fourth  North  Carolina  District,  and 
Bland  G.  Mitchell  and  Charles  D.  Wild,  their  alternates,  be  seated  as  the 
regular  delegates  and  alternates  to  this  Convention. 

"There  was  a  unanimous  report  on  the  part  of  the  National  Commit- 
tee, recommending  the  seating  of  the  above-named  delegates  and  alter- 
nates. 

"It  is  without  dispute  that  there  are  but  ninety-one  votes  in  the 
Fourth  North  Carolina  District  Convention,  and  that  if  the  Counties  of 
Wake,  Vance  and  Franklin  had  not  been  thrown  out  the  above-named 
delegates  would  have  had  fifty-two  votes  supporting  them,  the  same  being 
a  clear,  safe  majority. 

"It  further  appears  that  Mr.  Charles  H.  Cowles,  the  minority  member 
of  this  Committee,  made  a  motion  in  the  North  Carolina  State  Conven- 
tion on  May  15th,  1912,  -to  seat  the  delegates  to  the  State  Convention 
that  were  being  contested  from  Vance,  Franklin  and  Wake  counties,  who 
were  supporting  the  Harris  faction,  which  motion  was  carried  by  from 
200  to  300  majority  and  directly  passed  upon  the  merits  involved  in  this 
controversy." 

MR.  HUGH  T.  HALBERT,  of  Minnesota. — On  behalf  of  the  minority  of 
the  Committee  on  Credentials,  I  submit  a  report,  and  ask  that  it  be  read. 

The  report  was  read,  as  follows : 

"Gentlemen: 

"To  the  Chairman  and  Members  of  the  Republican  National  Convention, 
Chicago,  Illinois: 

"The  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  beg 
leave  to  dissent  from  the  report  of  the  majority  of  the  members  of  this 
Committee,  and  to  report  in  lieu  thereof  the  following  as  to  the  delegates 
and  alternates  from  the  Fourth  Congressional  District  of  North  Carolina : 

"We  report  that  J.  D.  Parker  and  C.  M.  Bernard,  delegates,  and  L.  F. 
Butler  and  W.  F.  Bailey,  alternates,  are  entitled  to  seats  in  this  Conven- 


250  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

tion,  and  J.  C.  L.  Harris  and  J.  C.  Matthews,  who  have  been  formally 
seated  as  delegates,  and  Charles  D.  Wildes  and  Bland  A.  Mitchell,  who 
have  also  been  seated  as  alternate  delegates  in  this  Convention  from  said 
Fourth  Congressional  District  of  North  Carolina,  are  not  entitled  to  seats 
in  this  Convention. 

"We  base  our  reasons  for  this  report  upon  the  following  facts,  amply 
sustained  by  incontrovertible  official  records  and  ample  sworn  testimony  of 
witnesses  presented  before  this  Committee : 

"The  said  J.  D.  Parker  and  C.  M.  Bernard,  delegates,  and  C.  F. 
Butler  and  W.  F.  Bailey,  alternates,  were  regularly  and  legally  elected  at 
a  convention  of  the  Republicans  of  the  Fourth  Congressional  District 
legally  called  under  the  plan  of  the  Republican  party  of  North  Carolina 
and  the  United  States  as  a  whole,  by  the  Executive  Committee  of  said 
district,  and  called  to  order  and  presided  over  by  John  W.  Harden,  Chair- 
man of  said  Executive  Committee,  who  has  been  such  without  question, 
and  that  the  same  is  admitted  by  the  opponents  in  their  brief  and  evi- 
dence. 

"That  the  Fourth  North  Carolina  Congressional  District  is  composed 
of  the  counties  of  Chatham,  Franklin,  Johnson,  Nash,  Vance  and  Wake. 

"That  upon  roll  call  of  the  counties  by  the  Secretary  of  said  conven- 
tion, each  county  filed  its  credentials  as  they  were  called  with  the  said 
Secretary. 

"That  there  was  notice  of  contest  given  and  filed  by  E.  T.  Yarbor- 
ough,  of  Franklin  County,  claiming  to  be  one  of  the  delegates  from  Frank- 
lin County;  T.  T.  Hicks,  of  Vance  County,  contesting  against  the  regu- 
larly elected  delegates  from  Vance,  and  Charles  D.  Wildes,  who  is  claim- 
ing a  seat  as  an  alternate  in  this  Convention  as  a  legally  elected  alternate 
from  the  Fourth  Congressional  District  of  North  Carolina,  contested  the 
seats  of  the  legally  and  regularly  elected  delegates  from  Wake  County. 

"The  Chairman  of  said  Convention  appointed  from  the  uncontesting 
counties  of  Chatham,  Nash  and  Johnson  as  members  of  the  Committee 
on  Credentials  to  pass  upon  the  contests,  the  following  gentlemen  to  wit : 
R.  H.  Dixon,  Chatham  County;  Van  B.  Carter,  of  Nash  County;  Bery 
Godwin,  of  Johnson  County. 

"That  the  said  Committee  on  Credentials  reported  in  favor,  by  a 
unanimous  vote,  of  the  regularly  elected  delegates  from  the  counties  of 
Franklin,  Vance  and  Wake. 

"That  the  report  of  said  committee  was  voted  on  by  said  convention, 
each  contesting  county  being  voted  on  separately.  On  the  report  of  the 
committee  as  to  Franklin  County,  the  convention,  on  roll  call,  voted  as 
follows :  Yeas,  38 ;  nays,  13.  The  roll  call  in  this  instance  was  demanded 
by  J.  C.  Matthews,  a  so-called  delegate  from  the  Fourth  Congressional 
District,  who  has  been  fraudulently  seated  in  this  National  Convention. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  251 

The  Chairman  declared  that  part  of  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials as  to  the  contest  of  Franklin  County,  carried  and  received. 

"The  report  of  the  said  Committee  on  Credentials  on  a  roll  call  vote 
as  to  the  contest  in  Vance  County,  seating  the  regular  delegates,  resulted 
as  follows :  Yeas,  43 ;  nays,  13.  Thereupon  the  Chairman  declared  the 
report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  as  to  the  contest  from  Vance 
County  carried  and  received. 

"At  this  point  in  the  proceedings  in  said  convention  the  contesting 
delegate  from  Franklin  County,  E.  T.  Yarborough,  and  the  six  contesting 
delegates  from  Vance,  and  the  26  contesting  delegates  from  Wake  County, 
headed  by  J.  C.  L.  Harris,  who  is  also  one  of  the  delegates  fraudu- 
lently seated  in  this  National  Convention,  bolted  said  District  Conven- 
tion, and  walked  out  of  the  Convention  Hall,  and  thereupon  the  Report 
of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  as  to  the  contest  applicable  to  Wake 
County  on  a  roll  call  vote  seated  the  regularly  elected  delegates  from 
Wake  County  by  a  vote  of  52  to  0. 

"This  action  of  the  convention  made  the  vote  of  said  convention,  by 
seating  the  26  delegates  from  Wake  County,  a  total  of  78,  who  remained 
and  participated  in  the  deliberations  of  the  said  regular  and  legal  district 
convention,  and  unanimously  elected  said  J.  D.  Parker  and  C.  M.  Ber- 
nard, delegates,  and  L.  F.  Butler  and  W.  S.  Bailey,  alternates,  to  repre- 
sent said  Fourth  North  Carolina  Congressional  District  in  this  National 
Convention. 

"That  the  bolters  from  said  regular  district  convention,  consisting  of 
contesting  delegates  from  only  three  counties  in  said  district,  25  in  num- 
ber, as  shown  by  the  sworn  affidavit  of  A.  V.  Dockery,  one  of  the  bolting 
faction,  met  in  the  basement  of  a  building  in  Raleigh  on  the  16th  day 
of  May,  two  days  after  the  regular  convention,  and  held  a  rump  conven- 
tion, at  which  said  rump  convention  the  said  J.  C.  L.  Harris  and  J.  C. 
Matthews  were  elected  delegates  to  this  Convention,  and  C.  D.  Wildes 
and  Bland  F.  Mitchell  were  elected  alternates  to  this  Convention,  and 
are  fraudulently  occupying  the  seats  of  the  said  J.  D.  Parker  and  C.  M. 
Bernard,  delegates,  and  L.  F.  Butler  and  W.  S.  Bailey,  alternates,  who 
are  the  only  regular  and  legally  elected  delegates  from  said  Fourth  Con- 
gressional District  Convention  of  North  Carolina. 

"Based  upon  these  findings,  we  offer  as  a  substitute  for  the  majority 
report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of  this  Convention  the  following 
resolution : 

"Resolved,  That  J.  D.  Parker  and  C.  M.  Bernard,  delegates,  and  L.  F. 
Butler  and  W.  S.  Bailey,  alternates,  are  entitled  to  their  seats  upon  the 
floor  of  this  Convention. 

(Signed)  "HUGH  T.  HALBERT. 

And  the  entire  minority  members  who  signed  the  other  dissenting 
reports." 


252  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

MR.  HALBERT,  of  Minnesota. — I  move  that  the  views  of  the  minority 
be  substituted  for  the  report  of  the  majority. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  that  motion  on  the  table. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  is  on  agreeing  to  the 
report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN.— The  names  of  the  sitting  delegates  will 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

THIRD    OKLAHOMA    DISTRICT. 

MR.  MAURICE  L.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — I  present  the  report  from 
the  Committee  on  Credentials  on  the  Third  Oklahoma  District. 

The  report  was  read,   as  follows : 

"The  Committee  recommends  that  Joseph  A.  Gill  and  J.  J.  Gilliland 
and  their  alternates  be  transferred  from  the  temporary  roll  as  delegates 
from  the  Third  District  of  Oklahoma,  and  be  placed  on  the  permanent 
roll.  From  the  evidence  submitted  and  affidavits  produced,  these  dele- 
gates are  the  only  lawfully  elected  delegates  from  this  Congressional  Dis- 
trict. The  call  for  the  District  or  Congressional  Convention  was  in 
strict  conformity  with  the  National  call.  At  the  committee  meeting  there 
were  ten  members  in  person  present,  and  three  represented  by  proxy  from 
a  majority  of  the  nineteen  counties  of  the  district.  Mr.  W.  S.  Cochran, 
the  Chairman  of  the  Committee,  favored  Mr.  Roosevelt,  although  i\  ma- 
jority of  the  members  of  the  committee  favored  Mr.  Taft.  The  Chairman, 
by  virtue  of  the  fact  that  he  had  changed  his  residence,  was  no  longer  a 
member  of  the  committee,  but  because  of  his  unjust  rulings  and  irregu- 
lar methods  of  procedure  he  was  deposed.  The  vote  to  depose  Mr. 
Cochran  stood  eleven  to  eight,  and  thereupon  Mr.  Cochran  left  the  hotel, 
with  six  others,  only  one  of  whom  was  a  regular  member  of  the  com- 
mittee. The  majority  of  the  committee  remained  in  the  hall  and  reorgan- 
ized by  electing  a  new  chairman.  They  then  decided  to  hold  their  con- 
vention, and  by  this  convention  the  delegates  now  seated  were  elected. 

"The  bolters  proceeded  to  hold  another  convention,  which  had  no  tem- 
porary roll  of  delegates  prepared  by  the  Congressional  Committee.  There 
were  no  credentials  to  the  rump  convention  from  the  several  counties  of 
the  District,  and  the  roll  was  made  up  by  having  the  by-standers  come 
forth  and  sign  the  roll." 

MR.  MAURICE  L.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — I  move  that  the  report  be 
agreed  to. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  delegates  will 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  253 

SECOND   TENNESSEE   DISTRICT. 

MR.  MAUCICE  L.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — From  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials I  submit  the  following  report  on  the  Second  Tennessee  District 

The  Secretary  read  the  report,  as  follows : 

"The  Committee  recommends  that  Mr.  T.  A.  Wright  and  John  J. 
Jennings,  the  delegates  from  the  Second  Congressional  District  of  Ten- 
nessee, and  their  alternates,  be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll  of  this 
Convention.  The  following  facts  were  proven  to  be  true  and  conclusive : 

"There  have  been  two  Republican  organizations  in  this  district,  each 
claiming  to  be  the  regular  Republican  organization.  Wright  and  Jennings 
were  elected  by  the  organization  which  was  duly  recognized  in  1910  by 
the  Republican  National  Congressional  Committee  as  the  regular  Repub- 
lican organization  of  said  district.  It  elected  Hon.  R.  W.  Austin  a  mem- 
ber of  Congress,  and  there  can  be  no  question  that  the  Austin  organiza- 
tion is  the  one  which  is  entitled  to  representation  in  the  National  Con- 
vention. 

"The  Congressional  Committee  met  December  30,  1911,  and  called  a 
district  convention  to  meet  March  9th  at  the  court  house  in  Knoxville. 
The  action  of  this  committee  was  unanimous  on  all  questions.  The  dis- 
trict is  composed  of  ten  counties.  Due  notice  was  given  of  the  Congres- 
sional Convention. 

"When  the  convention  met  March  9th,  delegations  from  five  of  the 
ten  counties  reported  no  contests.  Contests  were  reported  in  two  coun- 
ties, under  a  mistaken  apprehension  of  facts,  and  were  abandoned.  This 
made  58  delegates  out  of  a  total  of  108  possible  in  the  convention,  who 
were  entirely  uncontested.  ' 

"The  contests  from  the  three  other  counties  were  referred  by  the 
Congressional  Committee  to  the  convention  itself.  Under  party  law  and 
authority  in  Tennessee  the  Congressional  Committee  has  the  authority  to 
make  up  the  temporary  roll  of  the  convention,  but  in  the  case  of  these 
three  contests  the  entire  matter  was  referred  to  the  convention.  This  left 
49  delegates  whose  right  to  seats  in  the  convention  was  held  in  suspense. 

"After  the  temporary  organization  of  the  convention,  a  Committee  on 
Credentials  was  appointed  and  retired  from  the  hall  to  hear  the  contests. 
Instead  of  presenting  their  case  to  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  the 
contestants  from  these  three  counties  abandoned  their  contests  and  held  a 
bolting  convention,  having  refused  to  attend  the  delegated  convention  or 
submit  their  contests  to  the  convention.  The  delegates  from  all  coun- 
ties were  fully  represented  in  the  regular  delegate  convention.  The  Com- 
mittee on  Credentials  thereupon  made  a  report,  seating  Republicans  from 
these  three  counties  claiming  to  have  been  regularly  elected.  When  the 
other  contestants  from  these  three  counties  refused  to  submit  their  case 
to  the  Credentials  Committee,  they  lost  whatever  right  they  had  to  seats 


254  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF  THE 

in  the  convention.  The  delegations  from  two  counties  which  were  re- 
ported for  Roosevelt  remained  in  the  regular  convention  and  took  part 
in  its  proceedings..  T.  A.  Wright  and  John  J.  Jennings  were  elected 
delegates  to  Chicago  by  this,  the  only  regular  Republican  Convention  held 
in  the  Second  Tennessee  District. 

"After  the  bolters  had  held  their  convention  on  March  9th,  they 
realized  their  action  was  not  regular,  and  caused  to  be  resurrected  a  rem- 
nant of  what  was  known  as  the  old  Hale  Congressional  Committee,  which 
had  been  discredited  and  repudiated  by  the  Republican  Congressional  Com- 
mittee in  1910,  and  through  that  repudiated  committee. called  a  new  Con- 
gressional Convention.  Seven  of  the  ten  counties  in  the  district  abso- 
lutely refused  to  elect  delegates  to  this  rump  convention,  or  sent  only  28 
votes  out  of  a  total  of  108. 

"John  C.  Houk  and  H.  B.  Lindsay,  contestants,  have  no  claim  what- 
ever to  seats  in  the  National  Convention,  for  the  reason  that  they  took 
part  in  the  county  mass  conventions  called  by  order  of  the  Austin  Con- 
gressional Committee,  the  regular  committee.  Having  thereby  recognized 
the  Austin  organization  as  the  regular  Republican  organization  in  the 
district,  and  having  taken  part  in  the  county  conventions  called  by  said 
organization,  they  are  thereby  estopped  from  attempting  to  deny  the 
legality  of  the  Austin  organization,  and  had  no  right  to  organize  or  take 
part  in  any  other  organization  acting  in  conflict  therewith." 

MR.  MAURICE  L.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — I  move  the  adoption  of  the 
report. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  delegates  will 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

WASHINGTON    PELEGATES-AT-LARGE. 

MR.  MAURICE  L.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — I  present  the  report  of  the 
Committee  on  Credentials  on  the  Washington  contests,  and  ask  that  it  be 
read. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 

"The  Committee  on  Credentials  reports  as  follows  relative  to  the 
contests  from  the  State  of  Washington : 

"Under  a  call  regularly  issued  by  the  Republican  State  Committee, 
delegates  from  the  various  counties  of  the  State  of  Washington  were 
selected  to  attend  a  State  Convention  to  be  held  at  Aberdeen  in  that 
State  on  the  15th  day  of  May,  1912.  As  soon  as  a  Taft  delegation  was 
named  in  the  county,  the  Roosevelt  forces  initiated  a  contest  therein  until 
something  over  50  per  cent,  of  all  the  delegates  to  the  State  Convention 
were  contested. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  255 

"By  direction  of  the  State  Committee,  the  various  county  chairmen 
and  chairmen  of  contested  delegations  forwarded  to  the  State  Committee 
their  several  credentials  of  delegations,  said  committee  having  been  regu- 
larly called  to  meet  at  Aberdeen  on  the  14th  day  of  May,  1912.  Upon 
said  date  said  committee  met  and  considered  the  various  sets  of  creden- 
tials and  heard  arguments  for  and  against  the  fame  and  prepared  a  tem- 
porary roll  of  delegates  to  the  State  Convention.  The  convention  was 
regularly  called  to  order  at  the  time  and  place  specified  in  the  call,  and 
the  delegates  to  the  National  Convention,  known  as  the  Taft  delegates, 
were  duly  and  regularly  named,  said  delegates-at-large  being  the  ones 
placed  upon  the  temporary  roll  of  this  Convention  by  the  National  Com- 
mittee. 

"A  majority  of  the  delegates  placed  upon  the  temporary  roll  of  said 
State  Convention  attended  said  convention  and  participated.  The  various 
Roosevelt  delegations  placed  upon  said  temporary  roll  by  said  State  Com- 
mittee neither  attended  said  State  Convention  nor  asked  admission  thereto, 
but  on  said  15th  day  of  May,  together  with  various  other  persons,  met  in 
another  hall  in  the  city  of  Aberdeen  and  selected  the  various  contesting 
Roosevelt  delegations  to  the  National  Convention. 

"Under  the  law  of  the  State  of  Washington  various  county  party 
organizations  are  authorized  to  select  delegates  to  county  and  State  con- 
ventions or  to  provide  for  the  election  of  such  delegates  through  the 
caucus  and  primary  method.  There  is  no  preferential  primary  law  in  the 
matter  of  the  selection  of  Presidential  electors  or  delegates  to  National 
Convention  in  the  State  of  Washington.  In  several  of  the  counties  dele- 
gations to  the  State  Convention  which  were  uncontested  were  selected  by 
the  county  committees,  spme  of  them  being  Roosevelt  and  some  Taft 
delegations.  In  not  to  exceed  five  counties  a  sort  of  preferential  primary 
was  held;  in  this,  that  names  of  various  candidates  for  the  Presidential 
nomination  were  placed  on  the  ballot,  part  of  them  resulting  in  Taft 
delegations  and  part  of  them  for  Roosevelt. 

"In  the  matter  of  the  delegation  from  Chelan  County,  which  dele- 
gation is  claimed  to  have  been  contested,  we  find  that  no  credentials  were 
filed  with  the  State  Committee  except  by  the  Taft  delegation  and  that 
the  said  Taft  delegation  was  placed  upon  said  temporary  roll  without 
objection. 

"In  the  matter  of  the  Asotin  County  delegations  to  the  State  Con- 
vention, we  find  that  that  County  Committee  of  said  county  duly  and 
regularly  selected  Taft  delegation  to  said  convention,  under  the  ex- 
isting law. 

"In  the  matter  of  the  contesting  delegation  from  King  County  to  said 
convention,  we  find  that  the  County  Committee  of  said  county  by  resolu- 
tion, duly  and  regularly  passed,  delegated  to  its  Executive  Committee  all 
of  its  powers  and  functions,  under  which  resolution  said  committee  se- 


256  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF  THE 

lected  a  Taft  delegation  to  the  State  Convention.  The  chairman  of  said 
committee,  however,  called  a  meeting  of  the  whole  County  Committee, 
consisting  of  250  members,  said  chairman  being  leader  of  the  Roosevelt 
forces  in  said  county.  At  the  time  of  the  meeting  of  said  committee,  said 
chairman  allowed  only  those  to  enter  the  hall  where  said  meeting  was  to 
be  held  as  in  his  judgment  were  entitled  to  enter,  and  when  the  Taft 
members  of  said  committee  entered  said  hall  it  was  discovered  that* said 
chairman  had  illegally  and  intentionally  packed  said  meeting  with  131 
men  not  elected  as  members  of  said  county  committee  and  who  had  no 
right  to  participate  in  said  meeting.  On  the  calling  of  said  meeting  to 
order  and  the  naming  of  the  Credentials  Committee  by  said  chairman,  and 
upon  a  report  of  said  committee  to  the  effect  that  all  persons  in  said 
room  were  lawful  members  of  said  committee  and  entitled  to  participate 
in  said  meeting,  and  upon  a  motion  to  adopt  the  report  of  said  committee, 
demand  for  roll  call  was  had,  which  was  denied  by  said  chairman.  Im- 
mediately the  meeting  broke  into  a  riot,  during  which  time  the  chairman 
of  said  meeting  and  others  stood  upon  the  platform  of  said  hall  and 
waved  certain  papers  and  documents  back  and  forth  which  were  after- 
ward announced  to  have  been  resolutions.  No  one  in  said  room  could 
hear  a  single  word  spoken.  No  resolution  was  heard  read,  and  no  one 
voted  or  could  vote  upon  any  resolution.  In  a  short  time  the  meeting 
ended,  every  one  leaving  the  room  without  any  business  having  trans- 
pired. The  newspapers  the  following  day  contained  the  statement  that 
certain  resolutions  were  passed  at  said  meeting  removing  said  Executive 
Committee  and  directing  said  chairman,  who  had  so  unlawfully  packed 
said  meeting,  to  issue  a  call  for  primaries  and  a  county  convention  for 
the  purpose  of  selecting  delegates  to  the  State  Convention,  said  purported 
resolution  contained  a  direction  to  said  chairman  to  name  a  Credentials 
Committee  to  make  and  prepare  a  temporary  roll  of  said  county  conven- 
tion. Said  Roosevelt  forces  then  issued  a  notice  calling  for  said  pri- 
maries, which  said  notice  did  not  in  any  respect  comply  with  the  man- 
datory provisions  of  the  law.  So-called  primaries  were  then  held  by  said 
Roosevelt  forces  in  conjunction  with  the  Democrats.  All  judges  for  said 
primaries  being  named  by  said  chairman  and  no  caucuses  as  provided  by 
law  were  held.  All  returns  from  said  primaries  were  made  to  said 
chairman  and  kept  by  him,  and  according  to  his  own  report  out  of  about 
100,000  qualified  electors  of  said  King  County  but  6,900  participated.  The 
Taft  people  refused  to  participate  in  said  illegal  and  unlawful  primaries, 
and  said  Executive  Committee,  acting  upon  the  theory  that  it  had  not  been 
removed  because  no  lawful  business  was  or  could  have  been  transacted  at 
said  county  committee  meeting,  and  prior  to  said  so-called  primaries, 
thereupon  named  under  the  law  a  Taft  delegation  to  said  State  Conven- 
tion. 

"In  brief,  your   Committee  finds  as   its  conclusions  herein   that  the 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  257 

temporary  roll,  as  prepared  by  said  State  Committee,  was  lawfully  and 
correctly  prepared,  and,  further,  that  if  it  were  incorrectly  prepared  and 
any  of  said  contests  had  been  incorrectly  decided  by  said  committee, 
that  said  Roosevelt  delegations  to  said  State  Convention  entitled  to  sit 
therein  waived  all  rights  by  not  appearing  and  requesting  admission,  and 

"That  the  delegates-at-large  from  said  State  of  Washington,  to  the 
National  Convention,  placed  upon  the  temporary  roll  of  said  convention, 
were  duly  and  regularly  elected  to  this  Convention  and  entitled  to  be 
placed  on  the  permanent  roll  thereof,  and  it  is  the  recommendation  of 
this  Committee  that  the  same  be  done." 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  recognizes  Mr.  Sullivan,  of 
Ohio,  to  present  the  views  of  the  minority. 

MR.  JOHN  J.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — Gentlemen  of  the  Convention :  On 
behalf  of  every  Roosevelt  member  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  I 
move  that  the  following  be  substituted. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 

"We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of 
the  National  Republican  Committee,  hereby  submit  the  following  report : 

"We  clearly  find  that  both  through  the  expression  of  the  preference 
of  the  Republican  voters  of  the  State  of  Washington  by  Presidential  pri- 
maries and  by  delegates  selected  by  regularly  called  conventions,  the  con- 
testing delegates  for  Theodore  Roosevelt  should  be  seated. 

"We  base  our  report  on  the  undeniable  facts  that  out  of  the  668  dele- 
gates to  the  State  Convention  the  Roosevelt  delegates  had  a  clear  major- 
ity both  of  uncontested  and  contested  delegates. 

"This  contest  is  a  trumped-up  one  and  is  not  based  upon  any  solid 
foundation  of  law  or  facts : 

"That  in  the  judgment  of  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Credentials 
Committee  the  failure  to  seat  the  contesting  delegates  would  be  an  act  of 
gross  and  palpable  injustice. 

"We  find,  therefore,  that  the  following  persons  reported  upon  by  the 
majority  of  the  members  of  this  Committee  are  not  entitled  to  seats  in 
this  Convention  and  should  not  be  placed  upon  its  permanent  roll : 

STATE     AT     LARGE. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

Howard    Cosgrove  A.    G.    Tillingham 

R.    W.    Condon  John   T.    Phillips 

E.   B.   Benn  George    R.     Cortier 

William   Jones  W.    A.    Peters 

W.   T.    Dovell  Mowman    Stevenson 

Peter  Mutty  Alex.    Miller 

M.    E.    Field  C.    P.    House 

A.   D.    Sloane  Josiah    Collins 


258  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 


FIRST    DISTRICT. 


Delegates.  Alternates. 

Hugh  Eldridge  A.    E.    Mead 

Patrick   Halloran  L.   P.   Hornberger 

SECOND       DISTRICT. 

F.   H.   Collins  C.    A.    Taylor 

E.    B.   Hubbard  Alexander   Poison 

THIRD     DISTRICT. 

C.    C.    Case  T.    N.    Henry 

W.    N.    Devine  E.    E.    Yarwood 

"We  therefore  find  that  the  following  persons  are  entitled  to  seats 
in  this  Convention,  and  should  be  placed  upon  its  permanent  roll : 

STATE     AT     LARGE. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

Miles  Poindexter  C.   E.   Congleton 

Thomas   F.   Murphine  Wheeler  Nance 

S.    A.    D.    Glasscock  W.   T.   Beeks 

Robert  Moran  E.   R.   Brady 

Donald    McMaster  D.   W.   Noble 

O.    C.    Moore  William    Lewis 

W.   L.   Johnson  F.  J.   Wilmer 

N.   S.   Richards  J.   T.    Phillips 

FIRST    DISTRICT. 

Frank  R.  Pendleton  J.    C.    Herbsman 

James  A.  Johnson  Herbert   E.    Snook 

SECOND    DISTRICT. 

Thomas.  Crawford  H.  A.   Espy 

Thomas  Geisness  George  F.   Hanigan 

THIRD     DISTRICT. 

L.    Roy  Slater  J.    C.   Leller 

T    *-.   Elliott  T.    A.    Lanhan 

H.   E.   SACKETT,  Nebraska 
JOHN  J.   SULLIVAN,  Ohio 

^  LEX    N.    MITCHELL,    Pennsylvania 

HUGH  T.   HALBERT,   Minnesota 
CLENCY   ST.   CLAIR,  Idaho 
JESSE  A.  TOLERTON,  Missouri 
D.  J.   NORTON,  Oklahoma 
JESSE  M.   LIBBEY,   Maine 
JOHN   BOYD    AVIS,   New  Jersey 

A.  V.    SWIFT,    Oregon 

B.  A.   ECKHART,   Illinois 

"Without  subscribing  wholly  to  the  foregoing  statement  of  facts,  I 
recommend  the  seating  of  the  delegates  from  the  State  of  Washington, 
headed  by  Miles  Poindexter. 

SAMUEL    H.    CADY,    of    Wisconsin 
HARRY   SHAW,   of   West  Virginia 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  259 

MR.  JOHN  J.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  move  that  the  views  of  the 
minority  be  substituted  for  the  majority  report. 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  on  the  table  the 
motion  of  the  gentleman  from  Ohio  to  substitute  the  minority  for  the 
majority  report. 

MR.  HUGH  T.  HALBERT,  of  Minnesota,  rose. 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  withhold  the  motion. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  Indiana  withholds 
his  motion  to  lay  on  the  table,  in  order  to  enable  Mr.  Halbert,  of  Min- 
nesota, to  present  the  case  of  the  minority  upon  the  question  of  delegates- 
at-large  from  the  State  of  Washington.  The  Chair  recognizes  Mr.  Hal- 
bert, of  Minnesota. 

MR.  HUGH  T.  HALBERT,  of  Minnesota. — Mr.  Chairman  and  men  of 
this  Convention :  Before  presenting  the  case  of  Washington,  the  minority 
portion  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  have  requested  me  to  make  a 
statement  of  their  deliberations. 

WThen  they  first  met  they  determined  that  they  would  work  fairly,  and 
seat  only  those  who  should  have  the  best  side  of  the  evidence.  They  have 
failed  to  put  in  a  minority  report  in  a  great  many  cases.  They  were  con- 
fronted with  a  set  of  rules  which  they  believed  were  conceived  on  a 
wrong  theory.  That  theory  was  that  no  contest  could  be  heard  unless 
.an  appeal  had  been  taken  from  the  National  Committee.  The  minority 
believed  that  the  Committee  on  Credentials  was  a  court  of  original  juris- 
diction. They  further  believed  that  the  only  court  of  last  and  final  resort 
was  the  Convention  itself.  They  believed,  therefore,  that  all  contests 
could  be  heard  upon  their  merits.  The  rules  originally  presented  excluded 
any  discussion.  They  believed  that  all  these  contests  should  be  discussed, 
and  the  evidence  presented. 

With  that  brief  statement  I  wish  to  take  up  the  facts  in  reference  to 
the  State  of  Washington. 

There  were  668  delegates  in  the  State  Convention  of  Washington. 
There  were  261  uncontested  delegates  for  Theodore  Roosevelt.  There 
were  69  delegates  allowed  by  the  Taft  Committee  for  Theodore  Roose- 
velt, making  a  total  of  332  for  Theodore  Roosevelt  out  of  a  majority 
of  335. 

There  were  contests  in  eleven  counties.  With  the  determination  of 
one  single  contest  in  favor  of  the  Roosevelt  contention,  they  would  have 
had  a  majority  in  the  State  of  Washington.  One  contest  was  that  of  King 
County,  the  largest  county  in  the  State  of  Washington,  with  121  delegates. 
Out  of  400  committeemen  in  the  State,  in  that  county  a  great  majority 
were  for  Roosevelt.  Out  of  the  Executive  Committee  the  majority  were 
for  Roosevelt. 


260  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 

The  Executive  Committee  met  and  determined  by  a  vote  of  the  ma- 
jority to  have  a  Presidential  primary.  That  Presidential  primary  was 
held  with  this  result:  Sixty-nine  hundred  votes  were  cast;  out  of  this 
number  6,400  were  cast  for  Roosevelt  and  500  for  Taft. 

In  the  county  of  Chelan,  with  a  committee  of  35,  22  members  of  the 
committee  were  in  favor  of  Roosevelt.  They  chose  delegates  in  accord- 
ance with  the  regular  call,  giving  them  ten  votes.  They  went  to  the 
convention  hall,  and  when  they  found  that  there  were  delegates  chosen, 
and  that  they  could  not  get  into  the  convention,  the  doors  being  barred, 
they  went  to  another  convention  hall.  They  had  a  majority  of  109  in  all. 

These  facts  are  uncontroverted.  At  the  close  of  the  testimony  on 
behalf  of  the  Taft  delegation  from  Washington,  we  cross-examined  the 
contestees.  We  asked  them  how  many  delegates  who  were  uncontested 
had  been  instructed  for  Roosevelt.  They  at  first  did  not  know.  Then 
they  said  263.  Then  we  asked  them  how  many  delegates  had  been  allowed 
by  the  Taft  committee,  and  they  said  69.  We  asked  them  how  many 
uncontested  delegates  there  were  for  Taft.  They  would  not  reply.  Sen- 
ator Dick,  attorney  for  the  contestees,  then  interposed  an  objection,  and 
said  the  time  was  up,  and  we  appealed  to  them  to  give  us  only  the  facts 
to  present  to  this  Convention. 

Gentlemen,  you  men  from  New  York,  the  largest  uninstructed  delega- 
tion here,  I  ask  you  if  that  was  right  or  fair?  All  we  wanted  to  know 
were  the  exact  facts.  How  many  uncontested  delegates  were  there  in  that 
convention,  and  how  many  contested  delegates?  It  has  seemed  to  the 
minority  that  this  question  is  one  of  right  and  wrong,  one  of  real  moral 
justice.  The  facts  also  show  that  the  large  majority  of  the  delegates  to 
that  State  Convention  in  Washington  were  instructed  for  Theodore  Roose- 
velt. Yet  we  have  not  been  able  to  get  a  single  vote  in  his  favor,  and 
we  wish  to  say  to  you  that  in  our  belief  the  acceptance  of  that  majority 
report  will  put  before  the  Convention  one  of  two  alternatives,  either  de- 
feat or  Theodore  Roosevelt.  (Applause.) 

The  Republican  party  can  stand  defeat  with  honor,  but  the  Repub- 
lican party  can  never  stand  defeat  with  dishonor.  (Applause.) 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  recognizes  Mr.  Dovell,  of 
Washington,  to  present  the  case  of  the  majority. 

MR.  W.  T.  DOVELL,  of  Washington. — Gentlemen  of  the  Convention: 
It  has  been  deemed  advisable  that  I  make  a  brief  statement  to  you  in 
refutation  of  the  statement  of  the  gentleman  who  has  just  preceded  me. 

MR.  JOHN  FRANKLIN  FORT,  of  New  Jersey. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  under- 
stand this  gentleman  is  one  of  the  delegates  from  the  State  of  Washing- 
ton whose  seat  is  contested.  Under  your  ruling  has  he  a  right  not  only 
to  vote  but  to  speak? 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN.— The  Chair  is  of  the  opinion  that  the 
gentleman  has  no  right  to  vote.  The  Chair,  however,  unless  otherwise 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  261 

directed  by  the  Convention,  will  not  preclude  the  gentleman  from  an  op- 
portunity to  present  his  case.  (Applause.) 

MR.  DOVELL,  of  Washington. — What  I  have  to  say  I  shall  say  briefly. 
Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  we  stand  upon  this  proposition,  which,  it 
occurs  to  me,  is  not  to  be  disputed,  that  individuals  who  decline  to  go 
into  a  State  Convention  at  the  time  and  place  regularly  appointed  and 
defy  the  party  organization  may  not  thereafter  be  heard  to  complain  be- 
cause of  the  way  that  convention  may  have  declined  to  continue  its  delib- 
erations. And  this  likewise  is  true,  that  individuals  who  disregard  their 
party  call  and  assemble  together  without  any  call  or  authority  from  their 
party  organization  are  not  a  convention.  They  constitute  nothing  but  a 
mass  meeting,  and  such  a  meeting  would  receive  no  recognition  at  law, 
and  should  receive  no  recognition  in  the  superior  councils  of  the  party. 
(Applause.)  If  a  certain  portion  of  the  accredited  delegates  refuse  to 
come  into  a  convention  with  their  fellows,  whether  their  fellows  consti- 
tute a  majority  or  a  minority,  so  as  to  deliberate  with  them,  they  cannot 
complain  of  anything  which  happened  there. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  the  intimation  has  been  thrown  out — 
it  is  nothing  more  than  an  intimation — that  there  was  an  effort  made  to 
prevent  accredited  delegates  to  the  Washington  State  Convention  attend- 
ing. The  only  precaution  which  was  taken  was  a  precaution  directly 
analogous  to  that  which  has  been  taken  by  the  authorities  who  have  this 
Convention  in  charge.  (Applause.) 

I  must  be  brief,  but  let  me,  for  the  purpose  of  communicating  to 
you  the  character  of  the  misrepresentations  that  have  been  made  against 
my  State  and  my  State  delegation,  call  attention  to  the  charge  that  has 
been  made  twice  in  argument  here  and  once  in  the  report  of  the  minority 
of  the  Committee,  the  charge  that  there  were  irregularities  in  the  county 
of  Chelan.  I  read  to  you  from  the  accredited  minutes  of  the  State  Com- 
mittee : 

"Thereupon,  without  objection,  the  delegation  from  Chelan  County 
was  accredited,  as  follows." 

Without  objection!  If  there  ever  was  a  contest,  if  ever  irregularities 
were  charged  in  that  county  which  the  two  speakers  have  mentioned,  the 
contest  was  so  frivolous  that  it  was  abandoned. 

The  charge  has  been  made  that  there  were  irregularities  in  the  county 
of  King,  that  being  the  largest  county  in  the  State  of  Washington.  The 
facts  were  these:  A  delegation  known  as  the  Taft  delegation  was  elected 
to  the  State  Convention  by  the  County  Committee,  that  being  a  method 
permitted  by  our  law,  and  which  has  been  adopted  in  various  counties  in 
our  State,  some  Roosevelt  counties  and  some  Taft  counties.  Another 
delegation,  known  as  the  Roosevelt  delegation,  was  elected  under  the  so- 
called  primary,  unlawfully  called  and  unlawfully  held,  where  the  judges 
were  selected  by  one  man,  where  the  delegates  were  to  be  accredited  by 


262  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

one  man.  And  permit  me  to  tell  you  this,  that  in  that  primary  the  Taft 
people  expressly  declined  to  participate.  There  was  a  small  fraction  of 
the  qualified  voters  of  the  county  of  King  who  cast  their  ballots  at  that 
election,  and  it  was  well  understood  that  the  adherents  of  President  Taft 
were  not  participating. 

Permit  me  to  tell  you  this  further :  That  at  that  same  election,  upon 
that  same  day,  the  Democrats  participated  in  holding  a  primary  of  their 
own.  The  same  primary  which  elected  the  Roosevelt  contingent  also 
elected  delegates  to  the  Democratic  State  Convention.  And  let  me  tell 
you  that  those  delegates  so  chosen  by  that  unlawful  primary  were  re- 
pudiated at  the  Democratic  State  Convention,  and  rejected,  and  not  per- 
mitted to  sit  in  the  Democratic  State  Convention.  (Applause.) 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  our  proceedings  have  been  consistent 
with  regularity  in  every  regard.  We  have  observed  the  party  system,  we 
have  observed  the  laws  of  the  State,  we  have  observed  in  every  respect 
the  regulations  which  our  State  authorities  have  commended  to  us.  (Ap- 
plause.) 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  is  upon  the  motion  of  the 
gentleman  from  Indiana  (Mr.  Watson)  to  lay  upon  the  table  the  motion 
of  the  gentleman  from  Ohio  (Mr.  Sullivan)  to  substitute  the  views  of 
the  minority  for  the  majority  report.  A  vote  in  the  affirmative  sustains 
the  majority  report;  a  vote  in  the  negative  is  in  favor  of  the  minority. 

The  motion  to  lay  on  the  table  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  now  is  upon  the  adoption 
of  the  report  of  the  Committee. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  report  of  the  Committee  is  adopted, 
and  the  names  of  the  sitting  members  will  be  placed  upon  the  permanent 
roll.  The  Convention  will  receive  a  further  report  from  the  Committee 
on  Credentials. 

MR.  P.  W.  HOWARD,  of  Mississippi. — I  rise  to  a  point  of  order. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  will  state  his  point  of 
order. 

MR.  HOWARD,  of  Mississippi. — The  point  of  order  is  that  the  steam 
roller  is  exceeding  the  speed  limit. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  is  ready  to  rule  upon  the 
point  of  order.  The  point  of  order  is  sustained.  The  justification  is 
that  we  have  some  hope  of  getting  home  for  Sunday. 

FIRST    WASHINGTON   DISTRICT. 

MR.  MAURICE  L.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentle- 
men of  the  Convention :  I  have  a  report  from  the  First  District  of  Wash- 
ington, which  T  will  ask  the  Secretary  to  read. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  263 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 

"Your  Committee  finds  that  the  delegates  to  the  National  Conven- 
tion placed  upon  the  temporary  roll  of  this  Convention  by  your  National 
Committee  were  duly  and  regularly  elected  as  delegates  to  this  Conven- 
tion, and  entitled  to  be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll  thereof,  and  it  is 
the  recommendation  of  this  Committee  that  the  same  be  done. 

"The  names  of  said  delegates  and  alternates  recommended  to  be  placed 
upon  the  permanent  roll  are  as  follows : 

"Delegates.  "Alternates. 

"Hugh    Eldridge  "A.   E.   Mead 

"Patrick  Halloran  "L.   P.  Hornberger." 

ME.  JOHN  J.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — The  views  of  the  minority  as  to 
the  delegates-at-large  and  the  district  delegates  from  the  State  of  Wash- 
ington have  been  consolidated  in  the  report  which  I  submitted  as  a  sub- 
stitute for  that  presented  by  the  gentleman  from  Kentucky  (Mr.  Galvin). 
In  accordance  with  the  recommendations  therein  contained,  I  move  to 
substitute  the  names  of  Frank  R.  Pendleton  and  James  A.  Johnson,  as 
delegates,  and  J.  C.  Herbsman  and  Herbert  E.  Snook,  as  alternates,  from 
the  First  District  of  Washington. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  on  the  table  the  motion  of 
the  gentleman  from  Ohio  (Mr.  Sullivan)  to  substitute  the  minority  for 
the  majority  report. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  is  on  the  motion  to  lay 
on  the  table  the  motion  to  substitute  the  minority  for  the  majority  report. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  is  on  the  adoption  of  the 
report  of  the  Committee. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  delegates  will 
be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll  of  the  Convention. 

( 

SECOND  WASHINGTON  DISTRICT. 

MR.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  present  the  report  of  the 
Committee  on  Credentials  on  the  Second  District  of  the  State  of  Wash- 
ington, and  move  its  adoption  after  being  read. 

The  Secretary  read  the  report,  as  follows : 

"Your  Committee  finds  that  the  delegates  to  the  National  Convention 
placed  upon  the  temporary  roll  of  this  Convention  by  your  National  Com- 
mittee were  duly  and  regularly  elected  as  delegates  to  this  Convention, 


264  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

and  are  entitled  to  be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll  thereof,  and  it  is  the 
recommendation  of  this  Committee  that  the  same  be  done. 
"Said  delegates  and  alternates  are  as  follows : 

"Delegates.  "Alternates. 

"F.   H.   Collins  "C.   A.   Taylor 

"E.    B.    Hubbard  "Alexander    Poison." 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  move  that  the  names  of  Thomas  Crawford 
and  Thomas  Geisness,  as  delegates,  and  H.  A.  Espy  and  George  F.  Hani- 
gan,  as  alternates,  be  substituted  for  the  delegates  and  alternates  named 
in  the  majority  report  for  the  Second  District  of  Washington. 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  on  the  table  the 
motion  to  substitute  the  minority  for  the  majority  report. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  is  on  the  motion  to  lay 
upon  the  table  the  motion  to  substitute  the  minority  for  the  majority 
report. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  now  is  upon  the  motion  to 
adopt  the  report  of  the  Committee. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  delegates  will 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

THIRD   WASHINGTON    DISTRICT. 

MR.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  have  a  report  from  the 
Committee  on  Credentials  on  the  Third  District  of  the  State  of  Washing- 
ton, and  I  will  ask  the  Secretary  to  read  it,  and  will  then  move  its  adop- 
tion. 

The  Secretary  read  the  report,  as  follows : 

"Your  Committee  finds  that  the  delegates  to  the  National  Convention 
placed  upon  the  temporary  roll  of  this  Convention  by  your  National 
Committee  were  duly  and  regularly  elected  as  delegates  to  this  Conven- 
tion, and  are  entitled  to  be  placed  upon  .the  permanent  roll  thereof. 

"It  is  claimed  by  the  Roosevelt  people  that  the  delegates  to  the  Dis- 
trict Convention  held  at  Aberdeen  in  said  State  on  the  15th  day  of  May, 
1912,  were  by  a  large  majority  for  Roosevelt;  but  this  can  neither  be 
admitted  nor  denied,  on  the  ground  and  for  the  reason  that  said  Roose- 
velt delegates,  including  those  placed  upon  the  temporary  roll,  did  not 
appear  at  the  time  and  place  mentioned  in  the  call  of  the  State  Committee 
for  the  holding  of  said  district  convention. 

The  names  of  said  delegates'  and  alternates,  recommended  to  be 
placed  on  the  permanent  roll,  are  as  follows  : 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  265 

"Delegates.  "Alternates. 

"C.    C.   Case  "T.   N.   Henry 

"W.   N.   Devine  "E.    E.    Yarwood." 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  move  as  a  substitute  for  the  delegates  and 
alternates  named  in  the  report  of  the  majority  that  L.  Roy  Slater  and 
T.  C.  Elliott,  as  delegates,  and  J.  C.  Keller  and  J.  A.  Lanahan.  as  alter- 
nates, be  seated  from  the  Third  District  of  Washington. 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana.— I  move  to  lay  on  the  table  the 
motion  to  substitute  the  minority  for  the  majority  report. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  recurs  upon  the  motion 
to  adopt  the  report  of  the  Committee. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  delegates  will 
be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll  of  the  Convention. 

FIFTH    VIRGINIA    DISTRICT. 

MR.  GALVIN,  of  Kentucky. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  Con- 
vention :  I  have  here  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  on  the 
Fifth  Virginia  District.  I  ask  that  it  be  read,  and  then  I  move  its  adop- 
tion. 

The  Secretary  read  the  report  as  follows : 

"The  Committee  recommends  that  S.  Floyd  Landreth  and  A.  H. 
Staples,  delegates  from  the  Fifth  Congressional  District  of  Virginia,  and 
their  alternates  be  transferred  from  the  temporary  roll  of  this  Convention 
to  the  permanent  roll. 

"The  following  facts,  proven  conclusively  to  this  Committee,  show 
their  absolute  title  to  seats  in  this  Convention : 

"The  said  S.  Floyd  Landreth  and  A.  H.  Staples  and  their  alternates 
were  selected  by  a  delegated  convention  of  the  Republicans  of  the  Fifth 
District  of  Virginia,  the  convention  at  Rocky  Mount,  Virginia,  on  March 
the  9th,  1912.  That  said  convention  was  truly  representative  of  the  voters 
of  that  district,  and  was  assembled  in  response  to  the  call  of  the  only 
Republican  organization  in  said  district. 

"That  the  delegation  composing  said  convention  were  duly  selected 
and  not  contested  in  any  particular. 

"The  contestants  selected  in  this  district  were  selected  by  a  mass  meet- 
ing called  without  authority  from  any  organization,  and  was  not  repre- 
sentative in  its  make-up,  in  this,  but  a  small  part  of  the  counties  and  cities 
in  said  district  were  represented  in  said  mass  meeting. 

"There  was  no  discrimination  in  this  district  against  the  colored  man." 


266  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — There  being  no  minority  report,  the 
queston  is  on  the  adoption  of  the  report  of  the  Committee. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  name  of  the  sitting  delegates  will 
be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll. 

ABANDONED    CONTESTS. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  will  make  a  statement  of  the 
present  situation  in  regard  to  the  contests.  The  Chair  is  informed  that 
the  Committee  on  Credentials  have  acted  upon  the  last  contested  case. 
The  report  upon  the  different  cases  in  Texas  will  be  here  in  a  very  few 
minutes.  There  are  at  the  same  time  a  large  number  of  non-contested1 
cases ;  that  is,  cases  in  which  contests  were  filed  before  the  National 
Committee,  but  in  which  the  National  Committee  were  unanimous,  and 
where  the  contests  have  not  been  renewed  before  the  Committee  on. 
Credentials.  The  Secretary  will  read  a  communication  from  the  Chair- 
man of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  regarding  those  cases. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 

"With  the  exception  of  the  Texas  contests,  there  is  no  case  unreported 
on  by  the  Credentials  Committee  in  which  any  contestant  appeared  or 
expressed  any  desire  to  appear  and  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  otherwise. 
These  contests  have  apparently  been  abandoned.  Nevertheless,  the  Cre- 
dentials Committee  have  examined  the  briefs  and  testimony  so  far  as 
any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee,  and  so  fast  as  formal' 
reports  can  be  prepared  they  will  be  submitted,  recommending  the  placing, 
upon  the  permanent  roll  of  the  names  now  on  the  temporary  roll. 

"T.  H.  DEVINE,  Chairman." 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — Gentlemen,  after  conference  with  the 
floor  leaders  on  both  sides  of  the  questions  that  have  been  debated  here, 
and  by  agreement  with  them,  I  am  instructed  to  ask  unanimous  consent 
that  the  names  of  the  sitting  members  in  all  of  these  apparently  abandoned 
contests  be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll  without  further  proceedings. 
Is  there  objection?  (After  a  pause:)  The  Chair  hears  none.  The  con- 
sent is  given,  and  the  names  will  be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

The  formal  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  on  the  abandoned 
contests  is  as  follows : 

"The  Committee  on  Credentials  reports  on  the  following  cases,  i» 
which  no  appearance  was  entered  or  made  before  this  Committee  o» 
behalf  of  the  aforesaid  contestants : 

ARKANSAS:  Third   District 

First   District  Fourth  District 

Second  District  Fifth  District 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION. 


267 


First   District 
Second  District 


First   District 
Third    District 


First   District 
Second  District 
Third   District 
Fourth  District 

At   Large 
First   District 

First   District 
Second  District 
Third   District 
Fourth   District 
Fifth  District 
Sixth   District 

First   District 


First   District 
Second  District 

At   Large 
First   District 
Second  District 
Third   District 


MISSISSIPPI: 

Fourth  District 
Eighth   District 

MISSOURI: 

Fourteenth    District 

NORTH  CAROLINA, 

Ninth  District 

OKLAHOMA: 

At   Large 
Third  District 

SOUTH   CAROLINA: 
First   District 

TENNESSEE: 
First   District 


VIRGINIA: 


FLORIDA: 


GEORGIA: 


Sixth   District 
Eighth    District 
Ninth  District 
Tenth   District 

Second  District 
Third   District 

Seventh   District 
Eighth   District 
Ninth  District 
Tenth   District 
Eleventh    District 
Twelfth    District 


INDIANA: 


Fourth  District 

KENTUCKY: 
At   Large 

Fourth  District 
Tenth   District 

LOUISIANA: 

Fourth  District 
Fifth  District 
Sixth   District 
Seventh   District 


FIRST   DISTRICT   OF   ARKANSAS. 


"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 


268  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

or  your  Committee  on  Credentials;  and  your  Committee  now  recommen-.U 
that  the  names  of  Charles  R.  French  and  Charles  T.  Bloodworth  be  placed 
on  the  permanent  roll,  and  their  alternates." 

SECOND    DISTRICT    OF    ARKANSAS. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  H.  H.  Meyers  and  R.  S.  Coffman  be  placed  on  the 
permanent  roll,  and  their  alternates." 

THIRD   DISTRICT   OF   ARKANSAS. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representativt. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  R.  S.  Granger  and  J.  F.  Mayes  be  placed  on  the  per- 
manent roll,  and  their  alternates." 

FOURTH   DISTRICT  OF  ARKANSAS. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  C.  E.  Spear  and  J.  O.  Livesay  be  placed  on  the  per- 
manent roll,  and  their  alternates." 

FIFTH  DISTRICT  OF  ARKANSAS. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  N.  B.  Burrow  and  S.  A.  Jones  be  placed  on  the 'per- 
manent roll,  and  their  alternates." 

FLORIDA- AT-LARGE. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  269 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  Henry  S.  Chubb,  Joseph  E.  Lee,  M.  B.  Macfarlane,  W. 
A.  Wattz,  Z.  T.  Beilby,  George  W.  Allen,  and  their  alternates,  be  placed 
on  the  permanent  roll." 

FIRST  DISTRICT  OF  FLORIDA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  J.  F.  Horr  and  Henry  W.  Bishop,  and  their  alternates, 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

SECOND  DISTRICT  OF  FLORIDA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  George  E.  Gay  and  W.  H.  Lucas,  and  their  alternates, 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

T.HIRD   DISTRICT  OF    FLORIDA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  T.  F.  McGourin  and  M.  Paige,  and  their  alternates, 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

FIRST   DISTRICT   OF  GEORGIA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  Henry  Blun  and  William  James,  and  their  alternates, 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 


270  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

SECOND   DISTRICT   OF   GEORGIA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  G.  L.  Liverman  and  S.  S.  Broadnax,  and  their  alternates, 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

THIRD   DISTRICT  OF  GEORGIA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  J.  E.  Peterson  and  J.  C.  Styles,  and  their  alternates, 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

FOURTH   DISTRICT   OF  GEORGIA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  Walter  H.  Johnson  and  R.  B.  Butt,  and  their  alternates, 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

FIFTH   DISTRICT  OF  GEORGIA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  J.  W.  Martin  and  W.  F.  Penn,  and  their  alternates, 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll'" 

SIXTH    DISTRICT   OF  GEORGIA. 

"In    this   case    no    contestant    appeared    before    the    Committee    on 

Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 


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and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  George  F.  White  and  R.  A.  Holland,  and  their  alter- 
nates, be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

SEVENTH   DISTRICT   OF  GEORGIA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  J.  P.  Dyar  and  Louis  H.  Crawford,  and  their  alter- 
nates, be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

EIGHTH    DISTRICT    OF   GEORGIA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  M.  B.  Morton  and  H.  D.  Bush,  and  their  alternates, 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

NINTH    DISTRICT    OF   GEORGIA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommend* 
that  the  names  of  James  B.  Gaston  and  Roscoe  Pickett,  and  their  alter- 
nates, be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

TENTH    DISTRICT   OF   GEORGIA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  John  M.  Barnes  and  Chas.  T.  Walker,  and  their  alter- 
nates, be  placed  on-  the  permanent  roll." 


272  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

ELEVENTH    DISTRICT    OF    GEORGIA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  John  H.  Boone  and  A.  N.  Fluker,  and  their  alternates, 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

TWELFTH  DISTRICT  OF  GEORGIA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  Clark  Grier  and  S.  S.  Mincey,  and  their  alternates, 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

FIRST   DISTRICT   OF   INDIANA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  James  A.  Hemenway  and  Charles  F.  Heilman  be 
placed  on  the  permanent  roll,  and  their  alternates." 

FOURTH    DISTRICT   OF  INDIANA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  Oscar  H.  Montgomery  and  Web  \Yoodfill  be  placed  on 
the  permanent  roll,  and  their  alternates." 

KENTUCKY    AT    LARGE. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 


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"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  W.  O.  Bradley,  James  Breathitt,  W.  D.  Cochran  and 
J.  E.  Wood,  and  their  alternates,  be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

FIRST   DISTRICT   OF  KENTUCKY. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  cither  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  W.  J.  Deboe  and  John  T.  Tooke,  and  their  alternates, 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

SECOND    KENTUCKY   DISTRICT. 

We,  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  hereby  recommend  that  R.  A. 
Cook  and  J.  B.  Harvey,  and  their  alternates,  be  placed  on  the  permanent 
roll  of  this  Convention  as  delegates  and  alternates  from  the  Second 
District  of  Kentucky. 

A  contest  was  presented  to  and  heard  by  the  National  Committee, 
and  the  above  named  delegates  and  alternates  were  placed  on  the  tem- 
porary roll.  No  contest  was  presented  before  this  Committee  from  this 
District,  but  it  was  advised  that  the  contest  had  been  abandoned. 

FOURTH    DISTRICT    OF    KENTUCKY. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  Pilsen  Smith  and  J.  Roy  Bond,  and  their  alternates, 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

TENTH   DISTRICT  OF  KENTUCKY. 

"In  this  ca.se  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  A.  B.  Patrick  and  John  H.  Hardwick,  and  their  alter- 
nates, be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 


274  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 

LOUISIANA    AT    LARGE. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  C.  S.  Hebert,  Armund  Remain,  Victor  Loisel,  H.  C. 
Warmoth,  Emile  Kuntz  and  D.  A.  Lines,  and  their  alternates,  be  placed  on 
the  permanent  roll." 

FIRST   DISTRICT   OF  LOUISIANA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials  or  asked  to  be  heard  either  in  person  or  by  proxy. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  Walter  L.  Cohen  and  J.  Madison  Vance  be  placed  on 
the  permanent  roll,  and  their  alternates." 

SECOND   DISTRICT    OF    LOUISIANA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  Leonard  Waguespack  and  Charles  J.  Bell  be  placed 
on  the  permanent  roll,  and  their  alternates." 

THIRD  DISTRICT   OF  LOUISIANA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  Reuben  H.  Brown  and  E.  J.  Rodrigue  be  placed  on 
the  permanent  roll,  and  their  alternates." 

FOURTH    DISTRICT   OF   LOUISIANA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  275 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  A.  C.  Lea  and  J.  P.  Breda  be  placed  on  the  permanent 
roll,  and  their  alternates." 

FIFTH   DISTRICT   OF  LOUISIANA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  W.  T.  Insley  and  F.  H.  Cook  be  placed  on  the  per- 
manent roll,  and  their  alternates." 

SIXTH   DISTRICT   OF  LOUISIANA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  E.  W.  Sorrell  and  B.  V.  Baranco  be  placed  on  the  per- 
manent roll,  and  their  alternates." 

SEVENTH    DISTRICT   OF  LOUISIANA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  L.  E.  Robinson  and  Frank  C.  Labit  be  placed  on  the 
permanent  roll,  and  their  alternates." 

FIRST    DISTRICT    OF    MISSISSIPPI. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  James  M.  Dickey  and  J.  M.  Shumpert,  and  their 
alternates,  be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 


276  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 


SECOND   DISTRICT    OF    MISSISSIPPI. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  J.  F.  Butler  and  E.  H.  McKissack,  and  their  alter- 
nates, be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

FOURTH   DISTRICT  OF   MISSISSIPPI. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  J.  W.  Bell  and  W.  W.  Phillips,  and  their  alternates, 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

EIGHTH    DISTRICT   OF    MISSISSIPPI. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  Wesley  Crayton  and  P.  W.  Howard,  and  their  alter- 
nates, be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

FIRST    DISTRICT    OF    MISSOURI. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  Charles  E.  Rendlen  and  Joseph  Moore,  and  their 
alternates,  be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

MISSOURI  DELEGATES  AT  LARGE. 

The  Committee  on  Credentials  hereby  recommend  that  Herbert  S. 
Hadley,  Jesse  A.  Tolerton,  Walter  S.  Dickey  and  Hugh  Mclndoe  and 


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their  alternates  be  placed  upon  the  roll  of  this  Convention  as  delegates 
and  alternates  at  large    from  the  State  of  Missouri. 

The  above-named  delegates  and  alternates  were  contested  before  the 
National  Committee,  but  no  contest  has  been  filed  before  the  Committee 
on  Credentials,  and  your  Committee  is  advised  that  said  contests  have 
been  abandoned. 

THIRD    MISSOURI   DISTRICT. 

The  Committee  on  Credentials  hereby  recommend  that  H.  G.  Orton 
and  H.  L.  Eads,  and  their  alternates,  be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll 
of  this  Convention  as  delegates  and  alternates  at  large  from  the  State 
of  Missouri. 

The  above-named  delegates  and  alternates  were  contested  before  the 
National  Committee,  but  no  contest  has  been  filed  before  the  Committee 
on  Credentials,  and  your  Committee  is  advised  that  said  contests  have 
been  abandoned. 

FIFTH    MISSOURI    DISTRICT. 

The  Committee  on  Credentials  hereby  recommend  that  Homer  B. 
Mann  and  Earnest  R.  Sweeney,  and  their  alternates,  be  placed  upon  the 
permanent  roll  of  this  Convention  as  delegates  and  alternates  at  large 
from  the  State  of  Missouri. 

The  above-named  delegates  and  alternates  were  contested  before  the 
National  Committee,  but  no  contest  has  been  filed  before  the  Committee 
on  Credentials,  and  your  Committee  is  advised  that  said  contests  have 
been  abandoned. 

SEVENTH    MISSOURI    DISTRICT. 

The  Committee  on  Credentials  hereby  recommend  that  Richard 
Johnson  and  Louis  Hoffman,  and  their  alternates,  be  placed  upon  the 
permanent  roll  of  this  Convention  as  delegates  at  large  from  the  State 
of  Missouri. 

The  above-named  delegates  and  alternates  were  contested  before  the 
National  Committee,  but  no  contest  has  been  filed  before  the  Committee 
on  Credentials,  and  your  Committee  is  advised  that  said  contests  have 
been  abandoned. 

THIRTEENTH    MISSOURI    DISTRICT. 

The  Committee  on  Credentials  hereby  recommends  that  Politte  Elvins 
and  John  H.  Reppy,  delegates  from  the  Thirteenth  Missouri  District,,  and 
Charles  E.  Keifner  and  Lin  Grisham,  as  alternate  delegates  from  said 
district,  be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll  of  this  convention  as  dele- 
gates and  alternate  delegates  from  said  district. 


278  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

More  than  the  authorized  number  of  delegates  having  been  certi- 
fied to  the  National  Committee,  the  said  Committee  resolves  to  seat  the 
above-named  delegates  and  alternates.  No  contest  having  been  filed  be- 
fore the  Committee  on  Credentials,  the  Committee  assume  that  said 
action  of  the  National  Committee  has  been  agreed  to. 

FOURTEENTH    MISSOURI    DISTRICT. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  H.  Byrd  Duncan  and  George  S.  Green,  and  their 
alternates,  be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

SIXTEENTH     MISSOURI    DISTRICT. 

The  Committee  on  Credentials  hereby  recommends  that  Walter  W. 
Burnell  and  William  B.  Elmer,  delegates  from  the  Sixteenth  Missouri 
District,  and  John  H.  Dennis  and  P.  A.  Bennett  and  alternate  delegates 
from  said  district,  be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll  of  this  Convention 
as  delegates  and  alternates  from  said  district. 

More  than  the  authorized  number  of  delegates  having  been  certified 
to  the  National  Committee,  the  said  Committee  resolves  to  seat  the 
above-named  delegates  and  alternates.  No  contest  having  been  filed  be- 
fore the  Committee  on  Credentials,  the  Committee  assume  that  said 
action  of  the  National  Committee  has  been  agreed  to. 

THIRD     NORTH     CAROLINA    DISTRICT. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  Marion  Butler  and  W.  S.  O'B.  Robinson,  and  their 
alternates,  be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

NINTH    NORTH    CAROLINA  DISTRICT. 

"In    this   case    no    contestant    appeared    before    the    Committee    on 

Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 


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and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  S.  S.  McNinch  and  Charles  E.  Green,  and  their  alter- 
nates, be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

OKLAHOMA    AT   LARGE. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  Robert  McKeen,  George  H.  Brett,  Edd  Herrinn,  Allen 
L.  McDonald,  L.  S.  Skelton,  Gilbert  Woods,  A.  E.  Perry,  Tom  Wall, 
Ewers  White,  and  their  alternates,  be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

It  appearing  to  the  Committee  on  Credentials  that  the  name  of 
A.  H.  Hukland,  of  Muskogee,  and  F.  J.  Amphlett,  of  Apachee,  Okla- 
homa, were  certified  as  alternate  delegates  from  the  State  at  large  from 
Oklahoma  by  mistake,  and  whereas  by  reason  of  said  mistake  the  said 
two  above-named  men  were  placed  on  the  temporary  roll  instead  of 
William  Noble,  of  McAlester,  Oklahoma,  and  Edward  Butler,  of  Du- 
rant,  Oklahoma,  who  were  the  regularly  elected  alternates,  now  there- 
fore to  rectify  said  mistake  the  Committee  on  Credentials  recommends 
that  A.  H.  Hukland  and  F.  J.  Amphlett  be  stricken  from  the  roll  as 
alternate  delegates-at-large  from  the  State  of  Oklahoma  and  that  the 
names  of  William  Noble,  of  McAlester,  and  Edward  Butler,  of  Durant, 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll  of  this  Convention  as  alternate  dele- 
gates-at-large from  the  State  of  Oklahoma. 

THIRD    DISTRICT    OF    OKLAHOMA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  -on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committet 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  the  Third  District  of  Oklahoma,  Joseph  A.  Gill  and. 
J.  W.  Gillihand.  and  their  alternates,  be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

« 

FIRST    DISTRICT    OF    SOUTH    CAROLINA.  ••  ( 

"In    this   case    no    contestant    appeared    before    the    Committee    on 

Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 


280  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  Thomas  L.  Grant  and  Aaron  P.  Prioleau  be  placed  on 
the  permanent  roll,  and  their  alternates." 

FIRST   DISTRICT   OF  TENNESSEE. 

"In  this  case  no  cpntestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  Sam  R.  Sells  and  R.  E.  Donnally,  and  their  alter- 
nates, be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

FIRST    DISTRICT   OF   VIRGINIA. 

/ 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  Clarence  G.  Smithers  and  George  R.  Mould,  and  their 
alternates,  be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

SECOND    DISTRICT     OF    VIRGINIA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  D.  Lawrence  Groner  and  P.  J.  Riley,  and  their  alter- 
nates, be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

THIRD    DISTRICT    OF    VIRGINIA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  Joseph  P.  Brady  and  W.  R.  Vawter,  and  their  alter- 
nates, be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 


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FOURTH    DISTRICT    OF    VIRGINIA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that,  the  names  of  H.  C.  Willson  and  W.  B.  Alfred,  and  their  alternates, 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

SIXTH    DISTRICT    OF    VIRGINIA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  S.  H.  Hoge  and  J.  E.  B.  Smith,  and  their  alternates, 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

EIGHTH     DISTRICT    OF    VIRGINIA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  perscn  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  Joseph  L.  Crupper  and  M.  K.  Lowery,  and  their  alter- 
nates, be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

NINTH    DISTRICT    OF   VIRGINIA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  o« 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 
that  the  names  of  L.  P.  Summers  and  A.  P.  Crockett,  and  their  alternates, 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

TENTH    DISTRICT  OF  VIRGINIA. 

"In  this  case  no  contestant  appeared  before  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  or  asked  to  be  heard,  either  in  person  or  by  representative. 

"Nevertheless,  the  Committee  on  Credentials  has  examined  the  brief 
and  testimony,  so  far  as  any  were  submitted  to  the  National  Committee 
or  your  Committee  on  Credentials ;  and  your  Committee  now  recommends 


282  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

that  the  names  of  George  A.   Revercomb  and  R.  A.  Fulwiler,  and  their 
alternates,  be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll." 

TEXAS     DELEGATES-AT-LARGE. 

Mr.  THOMAS  H.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado. —  Mr.  Chairman  and  gentle- 
men of  the  Convention,  I  present  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  the 
delegates-at-large  from  the  State  of  Texas,  and  move  its  adoption. 

The  Secretary  read  the  report  as  follows : 

"The  Committee  recommends  that  H.  F.  MacGregor,  W.  C.  Averille, 
C.  K.  McDowell,  J.  E.  Lutz,  J.  E.  Elgin,  W.  H.  Love,  W.  M.  McDonald 
and  G.  \Y.  Burroughs,  and  their  alternates,  be  placed  on  the  permanent 
roll  of  this  Convention. 

"The  facts  in  regard  to  this  are  as  follows : 

"The  issue  in  Texas  was  whether  the  sentiment  of  the  majority  of 
Republicans  in  this  State  should  prevail,  or  whether  the  boss-ridden 
machine  should  be  sustained.  A  primary  election  held  in  strict  accord- 
ance with  the  Terrell  Election  Law  of  Texas  showed  that  public  sentiment 
was  overwhelmingly  in  favor  of  President  Taft. 

''In  the  western  part  of  the  State  there  are  over  one  hundred  coun- 
ties which  cast  approximately  two  thousand  votes  at  the  last  general 
election.  Several  of  these  counties  did  not  cast  a  single  Republican 
vote.  Each  one  of  these  counties  had  the  same  voting  strength  on  the 
State  Convention  as  a  county  that  had  cast  as  many  votes  as  all  these 
counties  put  together.  It  further  appeared  from  proof  submitted  and  affi- 
davits offered  in  evidence  that  the  organization  in  those  sparsely  settled 
counties  was  mostly  on  paper.  It  was  the  custom  to  send  blank  cre- 
dentials to  some  of  the  counties  and  these  credentials  after  being  signed 
by  two  Republicans  as  Chairman  and  Secretary,  without  holding  a  pri- 
mary election  or  a  county  convention,  were  then  returned  to  the  State 
machine.  Throwing  out  these  rotten  boroughs,  Taft  controlled  the  State 
convention  by  a  large  majority.  The  State  executive  committee,  which 
was  controlled  by  Cecil  Lyon  because  of  the  proxies  which  he  had 
procured,  refused  to  exhibit  any  credentials  or  permit  the  inspection  of 
the  temporary  roll  of  delegates  to  the  State  convention. 

"There  was  also  a  postal  card  exhibited  which  had  been  circulated 
throughout  the  entire  State  on  which  Cecil  Lyon,  over  his  signature, 
raised  the  Lily  White  issue  and  stated  that  the  time  had  come  whert 
the  voters  were  to  decide  whether  the  negro  or  the  white  man  was  to 
rule  in  the  State  of  Texas. 

"Col.  Lyon  took  charge  of  the  Republican  organization  in  the  State 
of  Texas  shortly  after  1896,  when  McKinley  received  167,000  votes. 
Since  that  date  under  his  leadership  the  Republican  vote  in  the  State 


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steadily  decreased  with  few  exceptions,  and  at  the  last  State  election 
in  the  year  1910  there  were  only  26,000  votes  cast  in  the  State,  a  de- 
crease of  141,000  in  sixteen  years.  The  Lyon  machine  is  made  up 
largely  of  postmasters  and  other  federal  officials  or  their  relations,  and  is 
entirely  run  for  selfish  purposes.  There  has  been  no  attempt  within  the 
last  fifteen  years  to  build  up  the  Republican  party  in  the  State.  Affi- 
davits were  produced  signed  by  many  county  clerks  showing  that  there 
was  no  Republican  county  organization  in  existence  at  the  time  Col. 
Lyon  claimed  that  delegates  from  those  counties  were  chosen  for  the 
State  convention.  The  National  Committee  decided  that  the  Taft  dele- 
gates represented  the  real  Republican  sentiment  of  the  State  of  Texas, 
and  that  the  convention  which  elected  them  was  justified  then  in  pur- 
suing the  course  that  it  did  in  order  to  overthrow  a  boss-ridden  ma-f 
chine.  These  Taft  delegates,  who  placed  in  proof  the  regularity  of  their 
election  in  accordance  with  the  national  call  of  the  committee,  and  who 
endeavored  by  their  convention  to  reflect  and  give  effect  to  public  sen- 
timent in  the  State,  were  declared  the  duly  and  regularly  elected  dele- 
gates to  the  National  Convention,  and  this  Committee  after  full  hearing 
confirms  the  action  of  the  National  Committee. 

"T.  H.  DEVINE,  Chairman." 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  from  Ohio,  Mr.  Sulli- 
van, will  present  the  views  of  the  minority. 

Mr.  JOHN  J.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — Gentlemen  of  the  Convention:  In 
behalf  of  fifteen  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  I  move  that 
the  following  be  substituted  for  the  report  of  the  Committee. 

The  Secretary  read-'as  follows:  » 

"We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of 
the  National  Republican  Committee,  hereby  submit  the  following  report : 

"(I-)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  members  of  the 
Committee  in  sitting  upon  and  participating  in  the  actions  of  the  Com- 
mittee, Mr.  J.  C.  Adams,  of  Arizona,  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas, 
and  Mr.  W.  T.  Dovell,  of  Washington,  for  the  reason  that  each  of 
these  men  was  elected  by  entire  delegations  whose  seats  are  contested. 

"(2.)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  men,  Mr. 
J.  C.  Adams,  of  Arizona,  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas,  and  Mr.  W.  T. 
Dovell,  of  Washington,  from  participating  in  and  voting  upon  the  ques- 
tions in  any  of  the  contests  on  the  ground  that  they  are  in  effect  sitting 
as  judges  in  their  own  cases. 

"(3.)  We  protest  against  Mr.  Thomas  H.  Devine,  of  Colorado,  Mr. 
Fred  W.  Estabrook,  of  New  Hampshire,  Mr.  Henry  Blun,  Jr.,  of 
Georgia,  Mr.  L.  B.  Moseley,  of  Mississippi,  and  Mr.  L.  P.  Shackleford,  of 
Alaska,  sitting  as  members  of  this  Committee,  for  the  reason  that  they 
were  members  of  the  National  Committee  and  participated  in  its  delibera- 
tions and  actions. 


284  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

"(4.)  We  find  that  the  following  persons  reported  upon  by  the 
majority  of  members  of  this  Committee  are  not  entitled  to  seats  in  this 
Convention  and  should  not  be  placed  upon  its  permanent  roll : 

"TEXAS. 

"Delegates-at-large : 
"H.  F.  McGregor, 
"W.  C.  Averille, 
"C.  K.  McDowell, 

"J.  E.  Lutz, 

and  their  alternates. 
"J.  E.  Elgin, 

"W.  H.  Love, 
"W.  M.  McDonald, 
"G.  N.  Burroughs, 

''The  State  Committee  then  completed  the  temporary  roll  of  the  State 
Convention,  signed  by  29  of  the  31  members  of  the  State  Committee, 
three  of  whom  were  supporters  of  President  Taft.  Two  members  of 
the  State  Committee  then  gave  notice  that  a  minority  report  would  be 
presented  to  the  State  Convention  and  the  Committee  adjourned,  all 
of  which  statement  was  substantiated  before  the  National  Committee 
and  the  Credentials  Committee. 

"The  State  Convention  met  at  11  A.  M.  on  May  28th,  1912,  and  the 
report  of  the  State  Committee  was  presented,  but  no  minority  report 
was  ever  presented  at  any  time,  and  this  fact  is  substantiated  by  sworn 
statement  of  the  Secretary  of  the  State  Convention,  which  facts  were 
presented  to  the  Credentials  Committee. 

"There  were  present  and  voting  in  the  State  Convention  176  out  of 
a  possible  209  counties  in  the  State  Convention  which  elected  delegates 
to  this  Convention. 

"We  find  that  a  rump  convention  was  held  which  elected  delegates 
to  this  Convention  and  which  have  been  seated  by  the  National  Com- 
mittee, and  we  find  further  by  evidence  presented  before  us  that  not 
to  exceed  two  members  of  the  State  Committee  could  have  been  present 
at  said  meeting  nor  could  there  have  been  represented  more  than  33 
out  of  249  counties.  The  rump  convention  never  called  a  roll  of  th« 
convention,  as  is  shown  by  the  newspaper  reports  and  by  the  affidavits 
of  the  reporters  who  reported  said  convention.  We  further  find  that 
speakers  on  the  floor  of  said  rump  convention  recognized  the  Repub- 
lican State  Convention  of  Texas,  then  in  session  in  another  part  of 
town,  in  their  speeches  on  the  floor  of  said  rump  convention,  and 
further  find  from  said  newspaper  reports  that  the  business  of  said  rump 
convention  was  participated  in  by  people  who  were  not  even  delegates 
to  the  convention,  and  that  no  attempt  was  made  to  separate  delegates 


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from  spectators.  We  also  find  the  rules  of  the  State  Committee  which 
required  that  sworn  credentials  be  filed  not  later  than  May  14th,  1912. 
We  find,  however,  that  209  counties  have  complied  in  every  respect 
with  the  call  of  the  National  Committee  and  with  the  laws  of  the  State 
of  Texas,  and  that  these  credentials,  properly  sworn  to  by  the  permanent 
chairman  of  said  conventions,  were  presented  in  evidence  before  the 
National  Committee  and  the  Credentials  Committee.  We  find  that  in 
compliance  with  the  laws  of  the  State  of  Texas,  which  are  in  accord 
with  the  rules  of  the  National  Committee,  that  the  State  Committee  of 
Texas  assembled  in  Fort  Worth,  Texas,  on  Monday,  May  27th,  and  that 
contests  from  seventeen  counties  were  reported.  This  statement  was 
substantiated  by  the  sworn  statement  of  the  acting  Secretary  of  the 
State  Committee,  which  affidavit  was  presented  in  evidence.  The  State 
Committee  referred  these  contests  to  four  sub-committees,  which  were 
composed  of  adherents  of  Mr.  Roosevelt  and  Mr.  Taft,  and  that  extended 
hearings  were  given  these  contests.  The  sub-committees  reported  to  the 
State  Committee  as  a  whole,  and  the  reports  of  all  sub-committees  were 
unanimous  except  one,  and  in  that  sub-committee  the  Taft  member  of 
the  sub-committee  presented  a  minority  report  differing  on  two  counties 
with  the  finding  of  the  majority  of  the  sub-committee. 

"Two  members  of  the  State  Committee  then  gave  notice  of  pro- 
test on  nine  counties,  and  these  protested  nine  counties  were  referred  to 
a  sub-committee  composed  of  Roosevelt  and  Taft  members,  and  that 
this  sub-committee  held  two  meetings  and  through  the  Taft  members 
of  the  sub-committee  gave  verbal  notice  to  the  members  of  the  State 
Committee,  who  had  filed  said  protest,  that  the  sub-committee  was  in 
session,  no  person  appeared  at  any  time  to  contest  the  right  before  said 
committee  of  the  persons  whose  credentials  had  been  reported  as  regular 
by  the  Secretary  of  the  State  Committee. 

"(5.)  And  we  further  report  that  in  place  of  the  said  persons 
the  following  persons  were  duly  elected  and  are  legally  entitled  to  seats 
in  this  Convention  and  should  be  seated  and  accredited  to  their  re- 
spective States  and  districts,  as  follows : 

"TEXAS. 
"At  large : 
"Cecil  A.  Lyon, 
"Ed.  C.  Lasater, 
"H.  L.  Borden, 

"J.  E.  Williams,  and  their  alternates. 

"Lewis  Lindsay, 
"J.  O.  Terrell, 
"J.  N.  McCormack, 
"Sam  Davidson, 


286  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

"The  minority  of  the  Credentials  Committee  finds  that  the  delegates- 
at-large  from  the  State  of  Texas,  headed  by  Cecil  A.  Lyon,  are  the 
duly  elected  delegates  to  the  National  Convention,  in  that  they  have 
complied  in  every  particular  with  the  rules  of  the  National  Committee 
and  the  laws  of  the  State  of  Texas,  and  submits  that  the  evidence  ad- 
duced before  the  Credentials  Committee,  and  prior  to  that  before  the 
National  Committee,  presented  the  following  facts,  each  and  every  one 
of  which  is  substantiated  in  full  by  affidavits  in  every  particular. 

"There  are  249  counties  in  the  State  of  Texas.  There  are  in  that 
State  some  counties  which  are  unorganized  either  under  the  laws  of 
the  State  of  Texas  or  under  the  rules  of  the  Republican  State  Com- 
mittee of  that  State,  and  further  that  some  counties  did  not  comply 
with  that  after  it  assembled,  the  said  rump  convention  attempted  to 
change  the  basis  of  representation  in  said  rump  convention,  in  defiance 
of  the  laws  of  the  State  of  Texas,  all  of  which  is  fixed  under  para- 
graph 121  as  amended,  of  the  election  laws  of  the  State  of  Texas,  that 
one  delegate  vote  for  each  500  votes  or  major  fraction  thereof  cast 
for  the  party's  candidate  for  Governor  in  the  preceding  general  election. 

"We  further  find  that  among  the  delegates-at-large  seated  from  the 
State  of  Texas,  on  this  temporary  roll,  H.  F.  MacGregor,  who  was  one 
of  the  organizers  and  was  State  Chairman  of  what  was  known  as 
the  Lily  White  organization,  which  denied  to  any  negro  the  right  to 
participate,  and  that  said  MacGregor  at  least  appeared  before  one  Na- 
tional Convention  demanding  seats  for  his  Lily  White  party,  as  dele- 
gates in  said  National  Convention,  all  of  which  was  denied  him.  We 
further  find  that  another  delegate-at-large  seated  by  the  National  Com- 
mittee is  J.  E.  Elgin,  who  has  been  first  a  Democrat,  then  a  Greenbacker, 
then  a  Populist  and  then  a  Republican,  who,  since  the  first  of  the  year, 
stated  in  a  public  interview  that  if  Taft  were  the  nominee  he  would 
support  the  Democratic  ticket.  We  further  find  a  C.  K.  McDowell 
seated  as  a  delegate-at-large  in  this  Convention,  at  present  the  Demo- 
cratic County  Judge  of  Val  Verde  County,  Texas,  who  was  elected  on 
the  Democratic  ticket  and  is  now  a  candidate  for  re-election,  subject 
to  the  action  of  the  Democratic  primaries.  We  further  find  W.  M. 
McDonald  also  seated  as  a  delegate-at-large  in  this  Convention,  who 
has  on  two  occasions  bolted  the  State  ticket,  and  as  late  as  the  last 
gubernatorial  election  in  Texas  advocated  the  nomination  of  the  Demo- 
cratic candidate  for  Governor. 

"In  conclusion,  we  find  that  every  statement  presented  to  the  Cre- 
dentials Committee  was  substantiated  by  affidavits,  shows  compliance 
with  the  rules  of  the  National  Committee  and  the  laws  of  the  State 
of  Texas  and  the  Republican  State  Committee  of  Texas,  and  we  there- 
fore recommend  that  the  delegates-at-large  from  Texas  headed  by  Cecil 


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A.   Lyon  be  placed   upon  the   roll   of  this   Convention  as   the  delegates- 
at-large   from  the  State  of  Texas. 

"JOHN  BOYD  Avis,  New  Jersey. 

"W.  S.  LAUDER,  North  Dakota. 

"JESSE  M.  LIBBEY,  Maine. 

"CLENCY  ST.  CLAIR,  Idaho. 

"ROBERT  R.  McCoRMiCK,  Illinois. 

"JOHN  J.  SULLIVAN,  Ohio. 

"A.  V.  SWIFT,  Oregon. 

"D.  J.  NORTON,  Oklahoma. 

"LEX  N.  MITCHELL,  Pennsylvania. 

"H.  E.  SACKETT,  Nebraska. 

"HUGH  T.  HALBERT,  Minnesota." 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  on  the  table 
the  motion  to  substitute  the  views  of  the  minority  for  the  report  of 
the  majority,  but  I  will  withhold  the  motion  to  enable  the  gentleman 
from  Wisconsin  (Mr.  Cady)  to  present  the  views  of  a  minority  of  the 
Committee. 

Mr.  SAMUEL  H.  CADY,  of  Wisconsin. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen 
of  the  Convention:  I  present  the  following  minority  views,  which  I 
will  ask  the  Secretary  to  read. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 

"Unable  to  agree  with  the  majority  report  or  the  other  minority 
report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  the  undersigned  member  of 
the  Committee  submits  the  following  minority  report : 

"The  facts  in  the  contest  from  the  State  of  Texas  differ  from 
those  of  any  other  contest. 

"In  much  more  than  a  majority  of  the  contests  presented  by  the 
Roosevelt  forces  which  occupied  the  attention  of  the  National  Com- 
mittee for  days,  the  vote  was  unanimous  in  seating  the  Taft  delegates. 
In  other  cases  involving  the  smaller  part  of  the  contests  there  was 
room  for  doubt,  and  in  our  judgment,  in  part,  Taft  delegates  have  been 
rightfully  seated  and  in  part  the  Roosevelt  delegates  have  been  wrong- 
fully denied  their  seats. 

"For  example,  it  appears  that  in  the  Thirteenth  Indiana  District 
the  Taft  forces  elected  the  chairman  and  regularly  organized  the  Con- 
vention by  the  narrow  margin  of  one-half  vote.  Thereupon  the  Roose- 
velt delegates  created  such  noise  and  confusion,  lasting  for  hours,  that 
the  transaction  of  business  was  impossible.  It  appears,  on  the  other 
hand,  that  the  Taft  forces  were  enabled  to  transact  the  necessary  busi- 
ness and  elect  their  delegates.  The  opposition  to  the  proceedings  re- 
sulting in  the  election  of  the  Taft  delegates  was  nothing  less  than  a 
•deliberate  attempt  to  create  a  state  of  anarchy,  and,  under  these  circum- 


288  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

stances,  we  do  not  feel  that  the  Roosevelt  delegates  were  entitled  to  seats 
against  the  Taft  delegates. 

"In  the  Washington  case,  the  Taft  delegates  were  elected  at  the 
regularly  appointed  time  and  place.  To  effect  this,  however,  it  is 
claimed  they  barred  the  windows  and  doors,  and  threw  a  cordon  of 
police  around  the  building  to  prevent  the  entrance  of  the  Roosevelt 
delegates.  It  fairly  appears  from  the  evidence  that  the  Roosevelt  dele- 
gates excluded  from  the  hall  constituted  a  majority  of  the  lawful 
delegates,  and  they  subsequently  organized  and  held  a  convention  at  which 
fourteen  Roosevelt  delegates  were  elected. 

"Including  all  the  cases  so  legitimately  in  doubt,  the  Roosevelt 
forces  have  only  asked  that  the  right  to  vote  be  denied  to  72  contested 
delegates. 

"The  time  allowed  for  consideration  of  contests,  even  under  the 
Hberal  practice  of  the  Credentials  Committee,  cannot  possibly  afford 
opportunity  to  determine  the  full  merits  of  individual  cases. 

"While  probably  many  of  these  contests  should  be  decided  in  favor 
of  the  Taft  forces,  there  are,  in  my  judgment,  enough  which  should 
rightfully  be  decided  against  them  to  deprive  either  the  Taft  or  the 
Roosevelt  forces  of  the  majority  necessary  to  the  action  of  this  Con- 
vention. The  manner  in  which  these  contests  have  been  presented  and 
decided,  inherent  in  the  present  system,  should  not  be  permitted  to 
prevent  justice  being  done  so  far  as  the  merits  may  fairly  be  determined 
and  the  control  of  the  Convention  left  in  the  hands  of  delegates  whose 
right  to  seats  in  the  Convention  has  been  clearly  proven. 

"In  our  opinion  the  Texas  contests  should  be  decided  in  favor  of 
the  contestants.  In  the  contests  on  delegates  at  large  it  is  clearly 
established  that  the  statutes  of  Texas,  the  party  regulations  of  that 
State  and  of  the  National  Republican  Convention  were  fully  complied 
with.  The  contestants  had  a  large  majority  in  the  State  Convention. 
Contests  were  duly  heard  and  with  one  exception  unanimously  deter- 
mined. There  was  no  evidence  of  intimidation  or  use  of  force.  Th« 
entire  proceedings  of  the  Convention  were  regular  and  orderly.  The 
contests  with  regard  to  some  district  delegates  present  other  features, 
but  in  the  main  the  same  situation  is  presented.  Charges  and  counter- 
charges of  bad  motives  have  been  made  before  the  National  Committee 
and  before  this  Committee  and  this  Convention.  Most  of  these  are 
unfounded.  In  our  opinion  the  Texas  case  stands  out  conspicuously 
as  the  one  in  which  expediency  is  the  controlling  factor  in  the  decision 
of  the  majority. 

"Neither  Taft  nor  Roosevelt  has  enough  lawfully  elected  delegates 
to  control  this  Convention.  The  seating  of  Taft  delegates  from  Texas  is 
clearly  an  assumption  by  the  minority — i.  e.,  the  minority  without  Texas 
— of  the  rights  of  the  majority  for  the  purpose  of  such  control. 


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"I  recommend  and  insist  that  justice,  fairness  and  party  success 
all  demand  the  seating  of  the  contesting  delegates  from  Texas. 

"SAMUEL  H.    CADY,   For   Wisconsin." 

Mr.  CADY,  of  Wisconsin. — I  move  you,  sir,  to  substitute  the  views 
of  the  minority,  which  have  just  been  read,  for  the  report  of  the 
majority. 

Mr.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  that  motion  on  the  table. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

Mr.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  also  to  lay  on  the  table  the  views 
of  the  minority  submitted  by  Mr.  Sullivan. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  is  on  agreeing  to  the 
report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  delegates-at-large 
from  the  State  of  Texas,  the  sitting  members,  will  be  placed  upon  the 
permanent  roll. 

FIRST    DISTRICT     OF    TEXAS. 

Mr.  THOMAS  H.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado. — I  am  directed  by  the  Com- 
mittee on  Credentials  to  submit  a  report  which  I  ask  may  be  read. 

The  report  was  read  as  follows : 

"The  Committee  recommends  that  Phil  E.  Baer  and  Richard  B. 
Harrison  and  their  alternates  be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll  of  the 
Convention. 

"The  Committee  find ,  and  so  report  to  this  Convention  that  the 
above-named  delegates  were  duly  elected  by  the  regularly  called  Con- 
vention, and  that  after  certain  voters  had  participated  in  this  regu- 
larly called  Convention,  they,  constituting  only  a  small  minority  of  the 
Convention,  withdrew  and  held  another  convention,  and  elected  other 
delegates  who  have  contested  the  seats  of  the  above-named  delegates. 
After  a  full  hearing  your  Committee  report  and  recommend  that  the 
above-named  delegates  now  on  the  temporary  roll,  namely,  Phil  E.  Baer 
and  Richard  B.  Harrison,  be  transferred  to  and  placed  upon  the  per- 
manent roll. 

"T.   H.   DEVINE,  Chairman." 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  mentioned  in  the  report 
will  be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

SECOND     TEXAS     DISTRICT. 

Mr.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado. — I  now  submit  the  report  on  the  Second 
District  of  Texas. 


290  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 

"The  contestants  were  claimed  to  have  been  elected  by  a  conven- 
tion held  at  Nacogdoches  on  May  17th,  1912.  The  evidence  disclosed 
conclusively  that  this  alleged  convention  consisted  of  six  men  who  met 
in  the  Mayor's  office  in  that  city  behind  locked  doors.  This  appeared 
upon  the  testimony  of  the  Mayor  himself,  who  sought  to  gain  admission 
to  his  own  office  by  that  of  the  local  constable  in  attendance  at  the  City 
Hall,  and  the  names  of  the  persons  present  were  given  in  the  affidavit 
of  the  stenographer  to  whom  records  of  this  assembly  were  dictated. 

"The  Convention  which  we  believe  unquestionably  to  have  been 
the  regular  convention  was  in  session  and  very  largely  attended  in  the 
City  Hall  at  the  time  this  'rump'  was  being  held  in  the  Mayor's  office. 
Affidavits  from  the  Judge  for  the  county,  Mayor  of  the  city,  the  City 
Attorney,  as  well  as  of  the  officers  of  the  regular  convention  showed  that 
its  proceedings  were  in  all  respects  in  accordance  with  party  and  parlia- 
mentary usage.  It  remained  in  session  for  upwards  of  three  hours  and 
completed  the  business  for  which  it  was  called  in  every  respect. 

"The  circumstances  preceding  the  convention,  so  far  as  important, 
are  as  follows : 

"The  regularly  elected  District  Chairman  was  appointed  to  office, 
and  in  accordance  with  the  Texas  law  resigned  his  chairmanship.  The 
Chairman  of  the  State  Central  Committee  appointed  a  new  chairman  in 
his  place.  Disregarding  this  action,  the  Secretary  of  the  committee,  upon 
the  written  request  of  the  majority  of  the  committee,  called  a  meeting 
which  was  held  at  Beaumont,  Texas,  on  April  16th,  1912,  and  C.  L.  Rutt 
was  elected  Chairman  and  a  district  convention  to  nominate  delegates 
to  the  National  Convention  at  Chicago  was  called  to  meet  at  Nacogdoches 
on  May  the  17th,  1912,  and  due  notice  was  given  thereof  by  publication 
and  otherwise.  In  the  meantime,  E.  G.  Christian,  who  has  been  ap- 
pointed as  above  stated,  by  the  Chairman  of  the  State  Central  Com- 
mittee, without  calling  the  committee  together,  called  a  convention  meet 
in  Lufkin,  Texas,  May  16th,  1912.  No  publication  of  this  call  was  made, 
and  Mr.  Christian,  again  without  calling  the  committee  together,  changed 
the  date  of  his  call  to  May  17th  and  the  place  to  Nacogdoches.  No 
publication  of  this  change  was  made.  The  Congressional  District  Com- 
mittee met  on  the  17th  of  May  before  the  assembling  of  the  convention, 
Mr.  Christian  being  present  with  them,  and  Mr.  Rutt  presided  and  made 
up  the  temporary  roll  of  the  convention  and  nominated  Mr.  George  W. 
Eason  for  temporary  chairman.  No  contest  was  presented,  though  no- 
tice was  given  that  a  contest  from  Jefferson  County  would  be  presented 
to  the  Committee  on  Credentials. 

"The  convention  was  called  together  by  the  Chairman  of  the  District 
Committee  and  elected  Mr.  Eason  as  temporary  chairman  and  appointed 
a  Committee  on  Credentials.  That  committee  reported  the  roll  of  dele- 


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gates,  settling  the  dispute  in  Jefferson  County  in  favor  of  the  delegation 
headed  by  Colonel  W.  C.  Averill.  This  report  was  accepted  by  the  con- 
vention, and  at  this  point  the  delegates  from  five  out  of  the  fourteen 
counties  retired  from  the  hall  and  repaired  to  the  mayor's  office,  where 
the  'rump'  convention  already  described  was  held. 

"It  was  not  contended  that  the  convention  originally  called  by  Mr. 
Christian  alone  had  any  validity,  and  we  find  that  there  was  no  justifi- 
cation for  the  bolt  from  the  convention  regularly  called  and  held. 

"Accordingly  we  report  that  C.  L.  Rutt  and  George  \Y.  Eason,  dele- 
gates, and  H.  M.  Smith  and  R.  E.  Troutman,  alternates,  be  given  seats 
in  this  Convention  and  the  report  of  the  National  Committee  on  this 
contest  be  confirmed. 

"The  vote  in  the  National  Committee  on  this  district  contest  was 
unanimous,  and  there  was  no  request  for  a  roll  call. 

"T.  H.  DEVINE,  Chairman." 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — There  being  no  minority  report,  the 
question  is  on  agreeing  to  the  report  which  has  just  been  read. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  mentioned  in  the  report  will 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

THIRD  TEXAS   DISTRICT. 

MR.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado. — I  submit  a  report  on  the  Third  District  of 
Texas. 

The  Secretary  read  as, follows: 

"In  this  district  there  was  a  contest  between  the  Taft  and  the 
Roosevelt  delegates.  The  National  Committee  Decided  in  favor  of  the 
Roosevelt  delegates.  The  Taft  delegates  have  made  no  protest  against 
this  action  of  the  National  Committee.  Your  Committee  recommends 
that  the  Roosevelt  delegates  from  this  district  be  placed  on  the  per- 
manent roll. 

"T.  H.  DEVINE,  Chairman." 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — There  being  no  minority  report,  the 
question  is  on  agreeing  to  the  report  just  read. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  members  will 
be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll. 

FOURTH   TEXAS   DISTRICT. 

MR.  THOMAS  H.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado,  from  the  Committee  of  Cre- 
dentials, submitted  the  following  report : 

"The    Committee   recommends   that    A.    L.    Dyer   and   M.    O.    Sharp, 


292  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE 

delegates  from  the  Fourth  Congressional  District  of  Texas,  and  their 
alternates,  D.  W.  Ryan  and  F.  C.  Allen,  be  transferred  from  the  tem- 
porary roll  of  this  convention  to  the  permanent  roll.  The  following  facts, 
proven  conclusively  to  this  Committee,  show  their  absolute  title  to  seats 
as  delegates  in  this  Convention : 

"The  Fourth  Congressional  District  of  Texas  consists  of  five  coun- 
ties, each  entitled  to  one  vote  in  the  Congressional  Convention.  Only 
one  county,  Rains,  elected  an  uncontested  delegate.  There  were  two 
sets  of  delegates  from  Collin,  Grayson,  Hunt  and  Fannin  counties.  In 
the  call,  which  was  regularly  and  properly  issued  for  this  convention, 
no  provision  was  made  for  the  hearing  of  contests  or  the  making  of  a 
temporary  roll  of  the  convention.  Representatives  from  each  of  the 
four  counties  sending  contesting  delegations  made  an  effort  to  appear 
before  the  Congressional  Committee  and  present  their  claims  for  seats 
in  the  convention.  The  Congressional  Committee  arbitrarily  refused  to 
hear  anybody.  The  contesting  delegates  then  appeared  before  the  Cre- 
dentials Committee,  but  this  Committee  refused  to  examine  the  evidence. 
The  contestants  then  were  permitted  to  make  a  statement  on  the  floor  of 
the  convention,  but  no  vote  was  permitted  to  be  taken  as  to  the  merits 
of  their  claims.  Having  exhausted  every  effort  to  secure  a  hearing,  the 
four  contesting  delegations,  together  with  the  only  uncontested  delega- 
tion in  the  convention,  withdrew  to  another  place  and  held  a  convention. 

"Your  Committee  has  examined  the  evidence  relating  to  the  delega- 
tions in  the  four  counties  wherein  contests  existed,  and  find  that  in 
Collin  County  the  control  of  the  county  turned  upon  one  precinct  where 
the  Taft  men  were  in  undisputed  control  and  elected  delegates  who  were 
refused  seats  in  the  county  convention.  Had  the  properly  elected  dele- 
gats  been  seated,  Collin  County  would  have  elected  an  uncontested  Taft 
delegation  to  the  Congressional  Convention. 

"In  Grayson  County,  in  Precinct  Number  1,  by  the  aid  of  State 
militia,  the  negro  Republicans  were  kept  out  of  the  convention  until  all 
business  had  been  transacted.  In  Precinct  Number  2,  delegates  were 
seated  who  had  been  elected  improperly  by  a  rump  convention,  and  the 
Taft  delegates  elected  according  to  the  call  were  not  seated.  Properly 
seated,  Grayson  County  would  have  elected  a  Taft  delegation  to  the 
Congressional  Convention. 

"In  Hunt  County  a  largely  similar  set  of  circumstances  prevented 
the  seating  of  Taft  delegates,  although  Taft  sentiment  largely  predom- 
inated. In  Fannin  County,  the  Taft  delegates  were  regularly  elected,  but 
were  refused  seats  in  the  Congressional  Convention  which  seated  dele- 
gates elected  by  a  mass  convention. 

"Your  Committee  finds  that  the  said  M.  O.  Sharp  and  A.  L.  Dyer 
were  elected  delegates  by  a  Congressional  Convention  in  which  sat  the 
only  uncontested  delegation  of  the  district,  and  the  delegates  who  were 


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lawfully   elected   to   the    Congressional    Convention,    and   that   these   men 
rightly  and  justly  are  entitled  to  these  seats. 

"T.  H.  DEVINE,  Chairman." 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  move  that  the  views  of  the  minority, 
which  I  now  submit,  be  substituted  for  the  majority  report.  I  ask  that 
the  minority  report  be  read. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 

"We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of 
the  National  Republican  Committee,  hereby  submit  the  following  report : 

"(1)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  members  of 
the  Committee  in  sitting  upon  and  participating  in  the  actions  of  the 
Committee:  Mr.  J.  C.  Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas, 
and  Mr.  W.  T.  Dovell,  of  Washington,  for  the  reason  that  each  of  these 
men  was  elected  by  entire  delegations  whose  seats  are  contested. 

"(2)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  men:  Mr.  J.  C. 
Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas,  and  Mr.  W.  T. 
Dovell,  of  Washington,  from  participating  in  and  voting  upon  the  ques- 
tions in  any  of  the  contests,  on  the  ground  that  they  are  in  effect  sitting 
as  judges  in  their  own  cases. 

"(3)  Wre  protest  against  Mr.  Thomas  H.  Devine,  of  Colorado;  Mr. 
Fred  W.  Estabrook,  of  New  Hampshire;  Mr.  Henry  Blun,  Jr.,  of  Geor- 
gia; Mr.  L.  B.  Moseley,  of  Mississippi,  and  Mr.  L.  P.  Shackleford,  of 
Alaska,  sitting  as  members  of  this  Committee,  for  the  reason  that  they 
were  members  of  the  National  Committee  and  participated  in  its  delib- 
erations and  actions. 

"(4)  We  find  that  the  following  persons  reported  upon  by  the  ma- 
jority of  members  of  this  Committee  are  not  entitled  to  seats  in  this 
Convention,  and  should  not  be  placed  upon  its  permanent  roll : 

Delegates. 
A.    L.    Dyer 
M.    O.    Sharp  and    their    alternates. 

"(5)  And  we  further  report  that  in  place  of  the  said  persons  the 
following  persons  were  duly  elected  and  are  legally  entitled  to  seats  in 
this  Convention  and  should  be  seated  and  accredited  to  their  respective 
States  and  districts,  as  follows : 

Delegates. 
R.    H.    Crabb 
R.    F.   Akridge  and    their    alternates. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  on  the  table  the  substitute 
of  the  gentleman  from  Ohio. 
The  motion  was  agreed  to. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  was  agreed  to. 


294  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN.— The  names  of  the  sitting  delegates  will 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

FIFTH    TEXAS    DISTRICT. 

MR.  THOMAS  H.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado,  from  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials, submitted  the  following  report: 

''The  Committee  on  Credentials  recommend  that  Eugene  Marshall 
and  Harry  Beck  and  their  alternates  be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll 
of  the  Convention. 

"The  Committee  gave  a  full  hearing,  both  to  the  contestees  and  the 
contestants,  and  the  facts  developed  are  as  follows: 

"The  convention  at  which  the  above-named  delegates  were  elected  was 
regularly  called  by  the  Congressional  Chairman  of  this  district.  All 
the  five  counties  in  this  (Fifth)  Congressional  District  were  represented 
by  delegates.  After  the  convention  was  assembled  and  called  to  order, 
the  delegates  from  one  county,  Bosque  County,  separated  themselves  from 
the  other  delegates.  The  delegates,  however,  from  the  four  remaining 
counties  participated  in  the  regular  convention  and  duly  elected  the 
above-named  delegates. 

"We,  therefore,  report  that  Eugene  Marshall  and  Harry  Beck,  whose 
names  were  placed  and  are  on  the  temporary  roll  of  this  Convention, 
were  duly  elected,  and  recommend  that  they  be  transferred  to  and  placed 
upon  the  permanent  roll  of  this  Convention. 

"T.  H.  DEVINE,  Chairman." 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  present  the  views  of  the  minority,  and 
ask  that  they  be  read. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 

"We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of 
the  National  Republican  Committee,  hereby  submit  the  following  report : 

"(1)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  members  of  the 
Committee  in  sitting  upon  and  participating  in  the  actions  of  the  Com- 
mittee: Mr.  J.  C.  Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas, 
and  Mr.  W.  T.  Dovell,  of  Washington,  for  the  reason  that  each  of  these 
men  was  elected  by  entire  delegations  whose  seats  are  contested. 

"(2)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  men:  Mr.  J.  C. 
Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas,  and  Mr.  W.  T.  Do- 
vell, of  Washington,  from  participating  in  and  voting  upon  the  questions 
in  any  of  the  contests,  on  the  ground  that  they  are  in  effect  sitting  as 
judges  in  their  own  cases. 

"(3)  We  protest  against  Mr.  Thomas  H.  Devine,  of  Colorado;  Mr. 
Fred  W.  Estabrook,  of  New  Hampshire;  Mr.  Henry  Blun,  Jr.,  of  Geor- 
gia; Mr.  L.  B.  Moseley,  of  Mississippi,  and  Mr.  L.  P.  Shackleford,  of 
Alaska,  sitting  as  members  of  this  committee,  for  the  reason  that  they 


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were  members  of  the  National  Committee  and  participated  in  its  delib- 
erations and  actions. 

"(4)  We  find  that  the  following  persons  reported  upon  by  the  ma- 
jority of  members  of  this  Committee  are  not  entitled  to  seats  in  this 
Convention,  and  should  not  be  placed  upon  its  permanent  roll: 

Delegates. 
Eugene   Marshall 
Harry   Beck 

and    their    alternates. 

"(5)  And  we  further  report  that  in  place  of  the  said  persons  the 
following  persons  were  duly  elected  and  are  legally  entitled  to  seats  in 
this  Convention,  and  should  be  seated  and  accredited  to  their  respective 
States  and.  districts,  as  follows: 

Delegates. 
W.   B.  Franks 
O.  E.  Schow  and    their    alternates. 

k 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  move  that  the  views  of  the  minority  be 

substituted  for  the  majority  report. 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  on  the  table  the 
motion  to  substitute  the  views  of  the  minority  for  the  majority  report. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  delegates  will 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

SEVENTH    TEXAS    DISTRICT. 

MR.  THOMAS  H.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado,  from  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials, submitted  the  following  report: 

"The  Committee  recommends  that  J.  H.  Hawley  and  H.  L.  Price, 
delegates,  and  their  alternates,  D.  W.  Wilson  and  T.  G.  W.  Tarver,  be 
placed  on  the  permanent  roll  of  the  Convention.  The  Chairman  finds 
and  reports  that  the  above-named  delegates  and  alternates  were  duly 
elected  by  the  regularly  called  convention  of  that  district  after  publica- 
tion was  made  as  required  by  the  call  of  the  National  Convention. 

"The  Committee  further  finds  that  the  contesting  delegation  was 
elected  by  a  convention  held  without  authority  of  law.  The  facts  of  this 
matter  are  as  follows : 

"The  Seventh  Congressional  District  of  Texas  is  composed  of  the 
following  counties :  Anderson,  Chambers,  Galveston,  Houston,  Liberty, 
Polk,  San  Jacinto  and  Trinity.  The  counties  of  Polk,  San  Jacinto  and 
Trinity  were  without  proper  party  organization,  and  are  what  is  known  in 


296  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

Texas  as  unorganized  counties  and  not  entitled  to  participate  in  con- 
vention, under  the  laws  of  Texas.  The  regular  convention  was  called 
to  meet  in  Galveston  on  April  9th,  1912.  The  Executive  Committee  met 
prior  to  the  meeting  of  the  convention  to  make  up  the  temporary  roll. 

"Certain  persons  claiming  to  represent  the  three  unorganized  coun- 
ties, namely,  Polk,  San  Jacinto  and  Trinity,  asked  to  have  their 
names  placed  on  the  temporary  roll.  Inasmuch  as  none  of  the  counties 
were  properly  organized  according  to  the  laws  of  Texas,  and  inasmuch 
as  these  representatives  had  no  credentials  showing  that  they  were  en- 
titled to  represent  the  said  county  it  was  decided  by  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee not  to  place  them  on  the  temporary  roll.  Thereupon  Mr.  Clinton 
from  Houston  County  and  the  representative  from  the  three  unorganized 
counties  withdrew  from  the  meeting  during  the  session  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  and  proceeded  to  organize  another  convention  wholly 
without  authority  and  sent  a  contesting  delegation  to  this  Convention. 
When  the  convention  met  a  committee  on  credentials  was  appointed,  which 
passed  on  all  contests,  but  these  representatives  of  the  three  unorgan- 
ized counties  did  not  present  their  claims  to  this  committee,  nor  did  they 
appear  in  the  regular  convention,  although  repeatedly  invited  to  do  so. 

"T.  H.  DEVINE,  Chairman." 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  present  the  views  of  the  minority,  which 
I  ask  to  have  read. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows: 

"We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of 
the  National  Republican  Committee,  hereby  submit  the  following  report: 
"(1)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  members  of 
the  Committee  in  sitting  upon  and  participating  in  the  actions  of  the 
Committee :  Mr.  J.  C.  Adams,  of  Arizona ;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of 
Texas,  and  Mr.  W.  T.  Dovell,  of  Washington,  for  the  reason  that  each 
of  these  men  was  elected  by  entire  delegations  whose  seats  are  con- 
tested. 

"(2)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  men:  Mr.  J. 
C.  Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas,  and  Mr.  W.  T. 
Dovell,  of  Washington,  from  participating  in  and  voting  upon  the  ques- 
tions in  any  of  the  contests,  on  the  ground  that  they  are  in  effect  sitting 
as  judges  in  their  own  cases. 

"(3)  We  protest  against  Mr.  Thomas  H.  Devine,  of  Colorado:  Mr. 
Fred  W.  Estabrook,  of  New  Hampshire;  Mr.  Henry  Blun,  Jr.,  of  Geor- 
gia ;  Mr.  L.  B.  Moseley,  of  Mississippi,  and  Mr.  L.  P.  Shackleford,  of 
Alaska,  sitting  as  members  of  this  Committee,  for  the  reason  that  they 
were  members  of  the  National  Committee  and  participated  in  its  delib- 
erations and  actions. 

"(4)     We  find  that  the  following  persons  reported  upon  by  the  ma- 


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jority  of  members  of  this   Committee  are  not   entitled   to  seats  in  this 
Convention,  and  should  not  be  placed  upon  its  permanent  roll :          . 

Delegates. 
J.  H.  Hawley 
H.   L.   Price  and    their    alternates. 

"(5)  And  we  further  report  that  in  place  of  the  said  persons  the 
following  persons  were  duly  elected  and  are  legally  entitled  to  seats  in 
this  convention,  and  should  be  seated  and  accredited  to  their  respective 
States  and  districts,  as  follows : 

Delegates. 
G.  W.  Burkitt,  Sr. 
C.  A.  Clinton  and  their  alternates. 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  move  that  the  views  of  the  minority  be 
substituted  for  the  majority  report. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  the  substitute  on  the  table. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  members  will 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

EIGHTH    TEXAS    DISTRICT. 

MR.  THOMAS  H.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado,  from  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials, submitted  the  .following  report : 

"The  Committee  on  Credentials  report  that  they  have  examined  the 
evidence  submitted  in  the  contest  in  the  Eighth  Congressional  District  of 
Texas,  and  from  their  finding  of  the  facts  recommend  that  C.  A.  Warn- 
ken  and  Spencer  Graves  and  their  alternates,  E.  L.  Angier  and  David 
Abner,  be  transferred  from  the  temporary  roll  to  the  permanent  roll  of 
this  Convention.  Your  Committee  is  satisfied  that  these  men  are  the 
lawfully  and  regularly  elected  delegates  to  this  Convention. 

"T.  H.  DEVINE,  Chairman." 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  move  that  the  names  of  W.  A.  Matthaei 
and  E.  W.  Atkinson,  and  their  alternates,  be  substituted  for  those  rec- 
ommended by  the  Committee. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  on  the  table  the  motion  of 
the  gentleman  from  Ohio. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  delegates  stated  in 
the  report  will  be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 


298  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

NINTH   TEXAS   DISTRICT. 

* 

MR.  THOMAS  H.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado,  from  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials, submitted  the  following  report: 

"The  Committee  recommend  that  Cavey  M.  Hughes  and  Mack  M. 
Rodgers,  and  their  alternates,  be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll  of  this 
Convention.  The  above-named  delegates  and  their  alternates  are  now 
upon  the  temporary  roll  of  the  Convention. 

"After  a  full  hearing  by  your  Committee,  they  report  the  facts  to  be 
as  follows : 

"The  Congressional  Chairman  refused,  in  writing,  to  call  a  meeting 
of  his  Congressional  Executive  Committee  for  the  purpose  of  calling  a 
Congressional  Convention,  and,  as  the  time  limit  required  by  the  Na- 
tional Republican  Committee  was  about  to  expire,  the  majority  of  the 
Congressional  Executive  Committee  duly  called  a  convention,  which  was 
regularly  held  at  the  city  of  Victoria,  a  central  location  of  this  (Ninth) 
district. 

"Eleven  counties  out  of  fifteen  responded  to  the  call,  and  participated 
in  this  convention,  and  duly  elected  the  above-named  delegates  and  their 
alternates. 

"The  Committee  determined  that  this  was  the  regular  convention, 
and  recommend  that  the  above-named  delegates,  Cavey  M.  Hughes  and 
Mack  M.  Rodgers,  be  transferred  from  the  temporary  roll  and  placed 
upon  the  permanent  roll  of  this  Convention.' 

"T.  H.  DEVINE,  Chairman." 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  move  as  a  substitute  that  the  names  of 
J.  M.  Haller  and  F.  R.  Korth,  and  their  alternates,  be  placed  on  the  roll. 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  the  substitute  on 
the  table. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN.— The  names  of  the  sitting  delegates  will 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

TENTH   TEXAS   DISTRICT. 

MR.  THOMAS  H.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado,  from  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials, submitted  the  following  report: 

"The  Committee  recommends  that  H.  M.  Moore  and  F.  K.  Welch, 
delegates  from  the  Tenth  Texas  District,  and  their  alternates,  be  trans- 
ferred from  the  temporary  roll  of  this  Convention  to  the  permanent  roll. 

The  following  facts  were  conclusively  proved: 

"H.  M.  Moore  and  F.  L.  Welch,  delegates,  and  L.  R.  Whiting  and 


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J.  M.  Clark,  alternates,  as  contestants  for  seats  in  the  Republican  Na- 
tional Convention,  claim  that  they  are  the  rightfully  elected  delegates  and 
entitled  to  recognition.  The  election  laws  of  Texas  do  not  provide  for 
Congressional  Conventions  for  the  election  of  delegates  to  the  National 
Convention,  the  authority  and  call  of  the-  district  convention  were  in 
accordance  with  the  National  call  of  December  11,  1911.  The  call  was 
made  unanimous  on  the  part  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  district. 
The  committee  in  its  action  was  unanimous,  and  William  H.  Taft  was 
unanimously  endorsed  as  the  choice  of  said  committee  for  the  Republican 
nomination.  On  the  llth  of  May,  1912,  the  date  set  for  the  district 
convention,  there  was  held  a  meeting  of  the  Executive  Committee  prior 
to  the  regular  convention.  The  contesting  credentials  from  Lee,  Travis 
and  Washington  counties  were  refused  in  the  temporary  organization, 
and  upon  the  question  of  irregularity  of  election  the  delegates  from 
Hays  County  were  refused  seats  in  the  temporary  organization.  The  vote 
stood  four  counties  to  four,  and  the  chairman,  H.  M.  Moore,  casting  the 
deciding  vote.  The  motion  to  seat  Hays  County  was  reconsidered  by 
motion  of  William  Anderson,  of  Bastrop  County,  and  upon  the  vote  being 
taken  Bastrop  County,  changing  its  vote  to  seat  the  Hays  County  dele- 
gation, resulted  in  five  for  and  three  against. 

"Upon  motion  for  a  temporary  chairman,  a  Roosevelt  delegate  and  a 
Taft  delegate  were  placed  in  nomination.  The  roll  call  showed  five  to 
three  for  the  Roosevelt  delegate,  who  was  declared  the  choice  of  the 
convention  for  temporary  chairman,  the  balloting  being  the  same  as 
in  the  case  to  admit  Hays  County  delegates.  The  Executive  Committee 
then  adjourned,  and  the  convention  was  called  to  order  by  H.  M.  Moore, 
District  Chairman.  The  finding  of  the  Executive  Committee  was  an- 
nounced with  reference  to  the  seating  of  delegates,  and  announcement 
was  made  of  a  violation  of  instructions  by  D.  H.  Kennerly,  proxy  for 
M.  R.  Hoxie,  chairman  of  Lee  County. 

"As  the  committee  had  seated  Roosevelt  delegates,  they  adopted  the 
report  of  the  Executive  Committee,  and  the  Taft  delegates  withdrew, 
and  in  the  same  building  went  into  organization  by  the  election  of  a 
temporary  chairman  and  temporary  secretary.  The  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials was  appointed,  and  the  attendance  of  the  delegates  noted.  The 
Committee  on  Resolutions  made  its  report  to  favor  President  Taft,  and 
delegates  were  instructed  for  President  Taft's  renomination.  The  com- 
mittee reported  delegates  from  six  of  the  eight  counties  at  the  Taft 
convention,  with  additional  delegates  from  their  respective  counties. 

"The  delegates  at  the  Roosevelt  convention  represented  counties  in 
which  there  was  overwhelming  Taft  sentiment,  and  these  delegates  were 
understood  to  be  in  accord  with  this  sentiment.  Had  William  Anderson, 
the  delegate  of  Bastrop  County,  and  D.  H.  Kennerly,  proxy  for  M.  R. 
Hoxie,  Chairman  of  Lee  County,  properly  represented  their  counties, 


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these  contestants  would  have  been  the  regularly  elected  delegates  from 
the  Tenth  Texas  District.  D.  H.  Kennedy  and  M.  R.  Hoxie  were  un- 
instructed  delegates  from  Lee  County. 

"Letters  submitted  herewith,  as  well  as  affidavits,  show  that  William 
Anderson  was  in  full  accord  with  the  Taft  voters  and  that  he  admitted 
that  he  was  in  error  when  he  voted  to  seat  the  delegates  from  Hays 
County.  William  Anderson  is  a  negro  school  teacher,  and  the  Roosevelt 
delegate  for  whom  he  voted  as  temporary  chairman  of  the  convention  is 
a  member  of  the  school  board  in  the  city  where  Mr.  Anderson  teaches. 

"Letters  and  affidavits  submitted  herewith  show  that  D.  H.  Ken- 
nerly  and  M.  R.  Hoxie  favored  President  Taft.  From  which  it  is  evi- 
dent that  Mr.  Kennerly,  by  voting  in  the  Roosevelt  convention,  violated 
the  trust  reposed  in  him  by  said  Hoxie. 

"With  reference  to  Hays  County,  the  entire  proceedings  were  illegal 
and  void.  The  delegation  from  Hays  County  consequently  should  not 
have  been  taken  into  consideration  in  connection  with  the  Congressional 
Convention,  as  shown  by  the  argument  submitted  under  the  title  of  Hays 
County. 

"Therefore,  if  Hays  County  delegates  were  refused  admission  be- 
cause of  illegality  and  had  not  both  William  Anderson  and  D.  H.  Ken- 
nerly betrayed  their  trust,  there  would  have  been  no  contesting  delega- 
tion in  the  Tenth  District. 

"T.  H.  DEVINE,  Chairman." 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  submit  the  views  of  the  minority  in  this 
contest  and  ask  that  they  be  read. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 

"We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of 
the  National  Republican  Committee,  hereby  submit  the  following  report : 

"(1)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  members  of 
the  Committee  in  sitting  upon  and  participating  in  the  actions  of  the 
Committee:  Mr.  J.  C.  Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of 
Texas,  and  Mr.  W.  T.  Dovell,  of  Washington,  for  the  reason  that  each 
of  these  men  was  elected  by  entire  delegations  whose  seats  are  con- 
tested. 

"(2)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  men:  Mr.  J.  C. 
Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas,  and  Mr.  W.  T. 
Dovell,  of  Washington,  from  participating  in  and  voting  upon  the  ques- 
tions in  any  of  the  contests,  on  the  ground  that  they  are  in  effect  sitting 
as  judges  in  their  own  cases. 

"(3)  We  protest  against  Mr.  Thomas  H.  Devine,  of  Colorado;  Mr. 
Fred  W.  Estabrook,  of  New  Hampshire;  Mr.  Henry  Blun,  Jr.,  of  Geor- 
gia; Mr.  L.  B.  Moseley,  of  Mississippi,  and  Mr.  L.  P.  Shackleford,  off 
Alaska,  sitting  as  members  of  this  Committee,  for  the  reason  that  they 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  301 

were  members  of  the  National  Committee  and  participated  in  its  delib- 
erations and  actions. 

"(4)  We  find  that  the  following  persons  reported  upon  by  the  ma- 
jority of  members  of  this  Committee  are  not  entitled  to  seats  in  this 
Convention,  and  should  not  be  placed  upon  its  permanent  roll : 

Delegates. 
H.  M.  Moore 
F.  L.  Welch  and    their    alternates. 

Delegates. 
M.  M.  Turney 
H.  C.  Stiles  and    their    alternates. 

"(5)  And  we  further  report  that  in  place  of  the  said  persons  the 
folldwing  persons  were  duly  elected  and  are  legally  entitled  to  seats  in 
this  Convention,  and  should  be  seated  and  accredited  to  their  respective 
States  and  districts,  as  follows : 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  move  that  the  views  of  the  minority  be 
substituted  for  the  report  of  the  majority. 

MR.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  the  motion  on  the  table. 

The  motion  of  Mr.  Watson  was  agreed  to. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  delegates  will 
be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

FOURTEENTH    TEXAS   DISTRICT. 

MR.  THOMAS  H.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado,  from  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials, submitted  the  following  report : 

"The  Committee  recommends  that  H.  I.  Oppenheimer  and  John  Hall, 
whose  seats  are  being  contested  by  Harrison  and  Penninger,  be  seated 
The  Committee  finds  and  reports  to  this  Convention  that  the  above-named 
delegates  were  duly  and  properly  elected  by  the  regularly  called  conven- 
tion and  they  are  entitled  to  represent  the  Fourteenth  District,  and  rec- 
ommends that  said  Oppenheimer  and  Hall  and  their  alternates  be  placed 
on  the  permanent  roll  of  this  Convention. 

"T.  H.  DEVINE,  Chairman." 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio. — I  am  directed  by  the  minority  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Credentials  to  submit  their  report  in  this  case.  I  ask  that  it 
be  read. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 

"We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of 
the  National  Republican  Committee,  hereby  submit  the  following  report: 

"(1)     We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  members  of  the 


302  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

Committee  in  sitting  upon  and  participating  in  the  actions  of  the  Com- 
mittee:  Mr.  J.  C.  Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas, 
and  Mr.  W.  T.  Dovell,  of  Washington,  for  the  reason  that  each  of  these 
men  was  elected  by  entire  delegations  whose  seats  are  contested. 

"(2)  We  protest  against  the  action  of  the  following  men:  Mr.  J.  C. 
Adams,  of  Arizona;  Mr.  C.  A.  Warnken,  of  Texas,  and  Mr.  W.  T.  Do- 
vell, of  Washington,  from  participating  and  voting  upon  the  questions  in 
any  of  the  contests,  on  the  ground  that  they  are  in  effect  sitting  as  judges 
in  their  own  cases. 

"(3)  We  protest  against  Mr.  Thomas  H.  Devine,  of  Colorado;  Mr. 
Fred  W.  Estabrook,  of  New  Hampshire;  Mr.  Henry  Blun,  Jr.,  of  Geor- 
gia; Mr.  L.  B.  Moseley,  of  Mississippi,  and  Mr.  L.  P.  Shackleford,  of 
Alaska,  sitting  as  members  of  this  Committee,  for  the  reasons  that  they 
were  members  of  the  National  Committee  and  participated  in  its  delib- 
erations and  actions. 

"(4)  We  find  that  the  following  persons  reported  upon  by  the  ma- 
jority of  the  members  of  this  Committee  are  not  entitled  to  seats  in  this 
Convention,  and  should  not  be  placed  upon  its  permanent  roll : 

i 
TEXAS. 

FOURTH     DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 

A.  L.   Dyer 

M.  O.  Sharp  and  their  alternates. 

FIFTH      DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 
Eugene  Marshall 
Henry    Beck  and  their  alternates. 

SEVENTH     DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 
J.  H.   Hawley 
H.  L.  Price  and  their  alternates. 

EIGHTH     DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 
C.  A.  Warnken 
Spencer   Graves  and  their  alternates. 

NINTH     DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 
G.  M.  Hughes 
M.  M.   Rodgers  and  their  alternates. 

TENTH    DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 
H.   M.  Moore 
F.   L.  Welch  and  their  alternates. 

ELEVENTH      DISTRICT. 

Delegates. 
T.  J.  Darling 

B.  G.  Ward  and  their  alternates. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION. 


303 


FOURTEENTH      DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 
J.  M.  Oppenheimer 
John  Hall 


and  their  alternates. 


"(5)  And  we  further  report  that  in  place  of  the  said  persons  the 
following  persons  were  duly  elected  and  are  legally  entitled  to  seats  in 
this  Convention,  and  should  be  seated  and  accredited  to  their  respective 
States  and  districts  as  follows : 


Delegates. 
H.  Crabb 
F.  Akridge 


Delegates. 
W.  B.  Franks 
O.   E.  Schow 

Delegates. 
G.  W.  Burkitt,  Sr. 
C.  A.  Clinton 

Delegates. 
W.  A.  Matthaei 

E.  W.  Atkinson 

Delegates. 
J.  M.  Haller 

F.  R.  Korth 

Delegates. 
M.  M.  Turney 
H.  C.  Stiles 

Delegates. 
C.  C.  Baker 
J.  W.  Cocke 

Delegates. 

G.  N.   Harrison 
Robert   Penniger 


TEXAS. 

FOURTH    DISTRICT. 


and  their  alternates. 

FIFTH     DISTRICT. 


and  their  alternates. 

SEVENTH     DISTRICT. 


and  their  alternates. 

EIGHTH     DISTRICT. 


and  their  alternates. 

NINTH      DISTRICT. 


and  their  alternates. 

TENTH     DISTRICT. 


and  their  alternates. 

ELEVENTH      DISTRICT. 


and  their  alternates. 

FOURTEINTH     DISTRICT. 


and  their  alternates. 


LEX    N.    MITCHELL,   Pennsylvania 
J.    BOYD  AVIS,   New  Jersey 
JOHN  J.   SULLIVAN,  Ohio 
H.   E.   SACKETT,   Nebraska 
ROBERT    R.    McCORMICK,    Illinois 
HUGH  T.   HALBERT,   Minnesota 
CHAS.    H.    COWLES,   North    Carolina 
WILLIAM  NOBLE,  Proxy,   Oklahoma 
A.  V.  SMITH,  Oregon. 


304  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 

MR.  SULLIVAN,  of  Ohio.— I  move  the  adoption  of  the  views  of  the 
minority  just  read  as  a  substitute  for  the  majority  report. 

The  motion  was  rejected. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN.— The  names  of  the  sitting  members  will 
be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll. 

FIFTEENTH    TEXAS    DISTRICT. 

MR.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado,  from  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  sub- 
mitted the  following  report: 

"In  this  district  there  was  a  contest  between  the  Taft  and  the  Roose- 
velt delegates.  The  National  Committee  decided  in  favor  of  the  Roose- 
velt delegates.  The  Taft  delegates  have  made  no  protest  against  this 
action  of  the  National  Committee.  Your  Committee  recommends  that 
the  Roosevelt  delegates  from  this  district  be  placed  on  the  permanent  roll. 

"T.  H.  DEVINE,  Chairman." 
The  report  was  agreed  to. 

DISTRICT    OF   COLUMBIA    DELEGATES. 

MR.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado,  from  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  sub- 
mitted the  following  report : 

"The  Committee  recommends  that  William  Calvin  Chase  and  Aaron 
Bradshaw,  delegates-at-large  from  the  District  of  Columbia,  and  their 
alternates,  be  transferred  from  the  temporary  roll  of  this  Convention  to 
the  permanent  roll.  There  has  been  no  contest  made  against  the  right 
of  the  above  mentioned  delegates  and  their  alternates  before  your  Com- 
mitee  on  Credentials.  There  was,  however,  a  contest  made  against  their 
right  to  seats  before  the  National  Committee. 

"The  National  Committee,  after  a  full  hearing  before  it  by  both 
contestants  and  contestees,  unanimously  recommended  that  the  above 
mentioned  delegates,  William  Calvin  Chase  and  Aaron  Bradshaw,  be 
placed  upon  the  temporary  roll  of  this  Convention,  which  was  accord- 
ingly done.  The  right  to  their  seats  has  not  been  contested  before  your 
Committee  on  Credentials,  and  we  therefore  recommend  that  the  said 
Chase  and  Bradshaw  and  their  alternates  be  placed  upon  the  permanent 
roll  of  the  Convention. 

"T.  H.  DEVINE,  Chairman." 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  sitting  delegates  will 
be  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll. 

THE  PERMANENT  ROLL. 

MR.  DEVINE,  of  Colorado,  from  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  sub- 
mitted the  following  report : 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  305 

"The  Committee  on  Credentials  further  report  to  this  Convention 
that  they  have  now  reported  its  recommendations  on  all  contests  brought 
before  it,  and  your  Committee  now  report  and  recommend  to  this  Con- 
vention that  all  other  delegates  from  any  State  or  Territory  and  the 
District  of  Columbia,  and  the  Insular  possessions,  that  have  been  here- 
tofore placed  on  the  temporary  roll  by  the  National  Republican  Com- 
mittee, be  now  transferred  to  and  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll  of  this 
Convention. 

"T.  H.  DEVINE,  Chairman." 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  is  on  agreeing  to  the 
report  submitted  by  the  gentleman  from  Colorado.  (Putting  the  ques- 
tion.) By  the  sound  the  ayes  have  it.  The  ayes  have  it,  and  the  names  of 
the  delegates  on  the  temporary  roll  therein  referred  to  will  be  transferred 
to  and  placed  upon  the  permanent  roll. 

The  roll  of  delegates  and  alternates  constituting  the  permanent  roll  is 
as  follows: 


ALABAMA. 

AT  LARGE. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

O.   D.   Street Guntersville  Oscar   Xoojin    \ttalla 

J.   J.   Curtis Haleyville  W.  C.  Starke Troy 

S.    T.    Wright Fayette  Asa    L.    Stratton Montgomery 

Shelby    S.    Pleasants Huntsville  J.   W.   Dodd Nauvoo 

Alex    C.    Birch Birmingham  Fred  Noble Annistbn 

U.  G.   Mason Birmingham  F.   D.  Threet Mobile 


DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

i — Prelate    D.    Barker Mobile         Gilbert  B.   Deans Mobile 

Clarence  W.  Allen Mobile  Anthony  R.  Davidson  .   .   .  Tunnel  Springs 

2 — Wiley   W.    Pridgen Evergreen         Jesse   W.    Barnes Andalusia 

George     Newstell Montgomery        A.  S.  Robinson Montgomery 

3 — Byron  Trammell Dotham         Thomas  U.  Baskin Union  Springs 

John     B.     Daughtry Hartford         George   W.    Russell Eufaula 

4 — John   A.    Bingham Talladega        James   M.   Atkins Heflin 

James  I.  Abercrombie  .   .   .  Columbiana         Henry   F.   Williamson Anniston 

5 — Douglas  Smith Wedowee        James  M.   McBurnett Wedowee 

Lewis  D.  Hicks Autaugaville         Wyly   J.    Harris Tuskegee 

6 — Pope  M.  Long Cordova        J.  O.  Hays Boligee 

C.    P.    Lunsford Hacklebury         S.   L.   Studdard Cordova 

7 — R.    B.    Thompson Cullman         C.    B.    Kennamer Guntersville 

C.  D.  Alverson Pell  City         M.    M.    Davidson Gadsden 

8 — Morton  M.  Hutchens  ....  Huntsville         E.    A.    Robertson Sheffield 

Charles  W.    Moore Florence         Eugene   B.   Downing Moulton 

9 — Jas.    B.    Sloan  .• Oneonta         Thos.  J.  Kennamer Ensley 

J.    Rivers    Carter Birmingham         J.    O.    Diffay Birmingham 


306 


OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 


ALABAMA. — Continued. 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

Robert  E.  Morrison Prescott  W.    D.    Fisk Globe 

F.   L.   Wright Douglas  I.    L.    Stoddard Phoenix 

J.  C.  Adams Phoenix  H.  V.   Clymer Yuraa 


ARKANSAS. 

AT  LARGE. 
Delegates. 

Powell   Clayton Eureka   Springs 

H.  L.  Remmel Little  Rock 

C.  N.  Rix Hot  Springs 

J.  E.  Bush Little  Rock 


Alternates. 

Chas.  M.  Greene Harrison 

A.  C.  Remmel Little  Rock 

De  Costa  Walker Hot  Springs 

E.  C.  Morris Helena 


DISTRICTS. 


Delegates. 
i — Charles  R.   French Harrisburg 

Charles   T.    Bloodworth  ....  Corning 
2 — H.  H.  Meyers Brinkley 

R.    S.    Coffman Searcy 

3 — R.  S.  Granger Eureka  Springs 

J.   F.   Mayes Fort   Smith 

4— C.    E.    Spear Fort   Smith 

J.  O.  Livesay Foreman 

S — N.    B.    Burrow Altus 

S.   A.   Jones Little   Rock 

6— Ferd  Havis Pine  Bluff 

C.  M.  Wade Hot  Springs 

7 — H.    G.    Friedheim Camden 

T.    S.    Grayson Magnolia 


Alternates. 

Herschel    Neely Paragould 

Robert   B.    Campbell Helena 

F.   W.  Tucker Clover   Bend 

H.  C.  Wade Batesville 

A.    M.    Ireland Rogers 

Frank     Burns Bruno 

George  Tillis Fort  Smith 

S.  S.  Langley Murfreesboro 

O.    N.    Harkey Ola 

S.   A.    Williams Little   Rock 

M.  A.   Eisele Hot  Springs 

A.  C.  Hough Garretsons 

J.    C.    Russell Camden 

Pat   McNally El  Dorado 


CALIFORNIA. 

AT   LARGE. 
Delegates. 

Hiram  W.  Johnson San  Francisco 

Chester  H.   Rowell Fresno 

Meyer   Lissner Los   Angeles 

Francis  J.  Heney San  Francisco 

William     Kent Kentfield 

Mrs.    Florence    C.    Porter .  .  Los   Angeles 

Marshall  Stimson Los  Angeles 

Frank     S.     Wallace Pasadena 

Geo.   C.  Pardee Oakland 

Lee  C.  Gates Los  Angeles 

Clinton  L.   White Sacramento 

John    M.    Eshleman 

C.  H.  Windham Long  Beach 

William  H.  Sloane 

C.   C.   Young Berkeley 

Ralph  W.   Bull Arcata 

S.    C.    Beach Placerville 

John  H.  McCallum San  Francisco 

Truxton  Beale San  Francisco 

W.    G.    Tillotson Redding 

Sumner  Crosby Pittsburgh 

Charles    E.    Snook Piedmont 


Alternates. 

George  E.  Crothers San  Francisco 

Rolfe  L.  Thompson Santa  Rosa 

G.  B.  Daniels Oakland 

W.    A.    Johnstone San    Dimas 

Rolla  V.   Watt San   Francisco 

John    W.    Stetson Oakland 

Robert  M.  Clarke Ventura 

W.    F.    Chandler Fresno 

W.  D.  Stephens ....  Washington,  D.  C 
John  D.  Works  ....  Washington,  D.  C. 

Edgar  A.  Luce San  Diego 

Benj.  H.  Dibblee 

Charles  D.  Blaney San  Francisco 

Alfred  Greenbaum San  Francisco 

H.   W.    Brundidge Los   Angeles 

E.    A.    Dickson ' 

Chas.    O.    Nenmiller Stockton 

G.  W.  McKinnon Arcata 

Geo.   W.   Bunnel Berkeley 

Willis  I.  Morrison Los  Angeles 

Milton  T.   Uren 

T.  W.   Nowlin San  Francisco 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  307 

ARIZONA. 

AT  LARGE. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

J.    L.    Hubbell Ganado  W.    H.     Clark Holbrook 

J.  T.  Williams,  Jr Tucson  J.  J.  Reddick Kingman 

R.    H.    Freudenthal Solmonville  Allen  T.   Bird Nogales 

Mrs.    Isabella   W.    Blaney  ....  Saratoga  E.  D.  Roberts Sacramento 

Jesse  L.   Hurlburt Santa   Barbara  T.    C.    Hocking Modesto 

A.    L.    Scott Piedmont 

Arthur  Arlett Berkeley 

DISTRICTS. 
Delegates. 

4 — E.   H.   Tryon San   Francisco         

Morris  Meyerfield,  Jr  .   .  San  Francisco          

COLORADO. 

AT  LARGE. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

Simon  Guggenheim Denver         George   Duke Hotchkiss 

Thomas  H.  Devine Pueblo         Wm.    Story,   Jr Ouray 

Jefferson  H.  Farr Walsenburg        Jared    L.    Brush Greeley 

Crawford     Hill Denver         Horton    Pope Denver 

A.  M.  Stevenson Denver        James    Williams Denver 

Irving  Howbert Colorado  Springs         E.  J.  Boughton Cripple  Creek 

A.     Newton    Parrish Lamar         Thadd   Parker Grand   Junction 

Jesse    F.    McDonald Leadville         W.   A.   Braden Monte  Vista 

DISTRICTS. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

i — Wm.    G.    Smith Golden         Geo.     W.     Dunn Littleton 

Geo.   W.  Johnson Longmont         A.  A.  Edwards Ft.  Collins 

2 — Casimero   Barela Trinidad         W.    W.    Cafky Florence 

E.  T.  Elliott Monte  Vista         R.   L.   Shaw Buena  Vista 

CONNECTICUT. 

AT   LARGE. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

Chas    F.    Brooker Ansonia         William    H.    Hall So.    VVillington 

Chas.  Hopkins  Clark Hartford         Waldo    C.    Bryant Bridgeport 

J.  Henry  Roraback Canaan         George    A.    Hammond Putnam 

Frank    B.    Weeks Middletown         Edgar   J.    Doolittle Meriden 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

i — Everett    J.    Lake Hartford  Andrew  J.    Sloper New   Britain 

Hugh    M.    Alcorn Suffield  Chas.    T.    Treadway Bristol 

2 — Chas  A.  Gates Willimantic  Samuel    Russell,    Jr Middletown 

Francis    J.    Regan Rockville  Lucius  E.  Whiton New  London 

3— Isaac  M.   Ullman New  Haven  Rollins  S.  Woodruff New  Haven 

Frank  C.  Woodruff  ....  New  Haven  Wm.    H.    Lyon Meriden 

4— John  T.  King Bridgeport  Elmore    S.     Banks Fairfield 

James  F.  Walsh Greenwich  Wm    P.    Bailey Bethel 

5 — Edwin  J.  Emmons  ....  New  Milford  Harvey     L.     Roberts Winsted 

Irving   H.    Chase Waterbury  Alton    H.    Parrel Ansonia 


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OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 


Delegates. 

Kdmund    Mitchell 

Henry  A.  du  Pont .... 
Harry  A.   Richardson  .   .  . 
Simeon    S.    Pennewill  .    . 


DELAWARE. 

AT  LARGE. 

Alternates. 

Wilmington         John  Bancroft Wilmington 

.  Winterthur         Richard     Pilling Kiamensi 

,   .   .  .  Dover         Alden   R.   Benson Dover 

.  Greenwood         Sirman    I».     Marvil Laurel 


DISTRICTS. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

George    W.     Marshall Milford         Alvin   B.    Conner Felton 

Ruby   R.    Vale Milford          Harry    V.    Lyons Lewes 

FLORIDA. 

AT   LARGE. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

Henry    S.    Chubb Winter    Park          E.     Oberdorfer Jacksonville 

Joseph  E.  Lee Jacksonville         J.   \V.    Howell Fernandina 

M.    B.    Macfarlane Tampa         L.    C.   Lynch Gainesville 

W.    A.    Watts Pensacola         M.    W.    Wiggins Jacksonville 

Z.   T.    Beilby Deland         William    O'Xeil Carrabelle 

George  W.   Allen Key  West         A.    R.    Edwards Tallahassee 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

i — J.    F.    Horr Key   West         F.  C.  Cubberly Gainesville 

Henry  W.   Bishop Eustis         D.   A.    Perrin Tampa 

2 — George  E.   Gay Palatka         J.  A.  Colyer Orlando 

W.    H.    Lucas Jacksonville         George  H.   Holmes Sharps 

3 — T.  F.  McGourin Pensacola         W.   H.   Xorthup Pensacola 

M.     Paige Apalachicola          Shields     Warren Apalachicola 

GEORGIA. 

AT    LARGE. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

H.  L.  Johnson Atlanta         Win.     Driskell Atlanta 

H.     S.     Jackson Atlanta         W.    H.    Harris Athens 

B.  J.    Davis Dawson         R.     R.     Wright Savannah 

C.  P.    Goree Atlanta         E.  J.  Turner Columbus 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

i — Henry    Blun Savannah  W.  I.  Cooper Sylvania 

Wm.    James Statesboro  Walter     C.     Scott Savannah 

z — G.     L.    Liverman Bainbridge  J.  W.  Adams Moultrie 

S.    S.    Broadnax Thomasville  J.    A.    Grant Bainbridge 

3 — J.  E.  Peterson Fort  Gaines  F.    G.   Boatright Cordele 

T.    C.    Styles Dawson  E.    J.    Matthews Dawson 

4 — Walter   H.   Johnson Columbus  C.    L.    Pierce Columbus 

R.  B.  Butt Greenville  T.  W.  Wheat Newnan 

5 — J.  W.  Martin Atlanta  R.    L.    Jones Atlanta 

W.    F.    Penn Atlanta  H.    L.    McKee Atlanta 

6 — Geo.    F.    White Macon  C.    A.    Monro Indian    Springs 

R.   A   Holland McDonough  J.    W.    Davidson Macon 

7— J    P.    Dyar Adairsville  Chas.    R.    Jones Rossville 

Louis     H.     Crawford Dalton  Albert  N.  Tiimlin Cave  Springs 


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GEORGIA.— Continued. 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

8 — M.   B.  Morton  . Athens         G.    A.     Poche Washington 

H.    D.    Bush Covington         J.    T.    Johnson Athens 

Roscoe  Pickett Jasper         Rufus   C.    Moss Baldwin 

9 — Jas.    B.    Gaston Gainesville        J.    Edgar    Puett Gumming 

10 — John  M.  Barnes Thomson         Warren  Edwards Milledgeville 

Chas.    T.    Walker Augusta         John    H.    Dent Augusta 

ii — John   H.    Boone Hazlehurst        J.  H.  Wakeford Adel 

A.     N.     Fluker Argyle         A.    W.    Bryant Valdosta 

12 — Clark     Grier Dublin         C.  B.  Beacham Lumber  City 

S.     S.     Mincey Alley         C.  H.  Moore Jeffersonville 

IDAHO. 

AT  LARGE. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

A.  R.    Cruzen Boise         A.    A.    Alvord NTez    Perce 

George     R.     Barker Sandpoint         C.  H.  Potts Coeur  d'Alene 

Clency    St.    Clair Idaho    Falls         D.     J.     Ellrod Pocatello 

Fred   E.    Fisk Parma         P.  G.  Johnson Blackfoot 

Frank   J.    Hagenbarth  ....  St.    Anthony        J.    B.    Lucas Idaho    City 

Evan    Evans Grangeville         J.    E.    Yates Boise 

C.  L.    Heitman Spirit    Lake         A.    R.    Richards Emmett 

D.  W.    Davis American    Falls         Wm.  E.  Lee Moscow 

ILLINOIS. 

AT   LARGE. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

Charles     S.     Deneen Springfield         W.    L.    Sackett Morris 

Roy   O.   West Chicago         H.  M.  Dunlap Savoy 

B.  A.     Eckhart Chicago         C.    H.    Williamson Quincy 

Chauncey     Dewey Chicago         John    R.    Robertson Jacksonville 

L.  Y.  Sherman .• ".  Springfield         Walter  Schrojda Chicago 

Robert    D.    Clark Peoria         Anton     Vanek Chicago 

L.    L.    Emmerson Mt.    Vernon         G.  K.   Schmidt Nashville 

W.  A.  Rosenfield Rock  Island         J.     R.     Marshall Chicago 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

i  —  Francis    P.     Brady Chicago         John    C.    Buckner Chicago 

Martin  B.  Madden Chicago        Jas.   T.   Brewington,  Jr Chicago 

2 — John  J.   Hanberg Chicago         Edward  E.  Erstman Chicago 

Isaac    N.    Powell Chicago         Robert  R.   Levy Chicago 

3— \Vm.    H.    Weber Chicago         Frank    E.    Christian Chicago 

Chas.    H.    Vail Chicago         Wm.  J.   Roberts Chicago 

4— Thomas  J.  Healy Chicago         Matthew  T.   Fitzpatrick Chicago 

Albert   C.   Heiser Chicago         August   Sundermeier Chicago 

5— Chas.  J.   Happell Chicago         Frank    A.    Sevcik Chicago 

William    J.    Cooke Chicago         Solomon   P.  Roderick Chicago 

6— Homer    K.    Galpin Chicago         Carl  T.   Murray Chicago 

Allen  S.   Ray Oak  Park        Joseph  Carolan River  Forest 

7 — Abel    Davis Chicago        John   P.   Collins Chicago 

D.    A.    Campbell Chicago      -  Joseph   T.   Haas Chicago 

g — John  F.  Devine Chicago         August  Wilhelm Chicago 

Isidore  H.  Himes Chicago         Edward    Walz     Chicago 


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ILLINOIS.— Continued. 


Delegates. 
9 — Fred   W.    Upham Chicago 

R.    R.    McCormick Chicago 

10 — James  Pease Chicago 

John  E.  Wilder Evanston 

1 1 — Ira  C.   Copley Aurora 

John    Lambert Joliet 

12 — Fred.   E.   Sterling Rockford 

H.   W.   Johnson La   Salle 

13 — James    A.    Cowley Freeport 

J.  T.   Williams Sterling 

14 — Frank   G.   Allen Moline 

William  J.  Graham Aledo 

1 5 — Harry  E.  Brown Geneseo 

Clarence   E.    Sniveley Canton 

1 6 — Edward   N.    Woodruff Peoria 

Cairo    A.    Trimble Princeton 

1 7 — G.  J.  Johnson Paxton 

Frank  B.   Stitt El   Paso 

1 8 — John  L.   Hamilton Hoopeston 

Len    Small Kangkakee 

19 — W.    L.    Shellabarger Decatur 

Elim  J.  Hawbaker Monticello 

20 — J.    A.    Glenn Ashland 

W.  W.  Watson Barry 

21 — Logan  Hay Springfield 

Wm.    H.    Provine Taylorville 

22— Edward  E.  Miller  ....  E.  St.  Louis 

Henry  J.  Schmidt Nashville 

23 — William    F.    Bundy Centralia 

Aden  Knoph Olney 

24 — Randolph   Smith Flora 

James   B.    Barker Ozark 

25 — Philip    H.    Eisenmayer  .  Murphysboro 

Walter    Wood Cairo 


Alternates. 

Philip   Mano Chicago 

Chas.  C.  Williams Chicago 

William  Eisfeldt Chicago 

Charles   Silet Chicago 

John   C.  Wood Hinsdale 

B.    C.       Getzelman Algonquin 

Samuel    Normandin     Piano 

Judson  Brenner De  Kalb 

L.    N.   Evans Milledgeville 

Jason   Ayers Dixon 

Everett  C.   Hardin Monmouth 

Ed.  A.  Wilcox Carthage 

George   M.    Clark Galesburg 

Harlo  E.  Selby Golden 

Augustus  G.  Hammond Wyoming 

George    W.    Cowan Lacon 

H.    J.    Clark Pontiac 

B.  R.    Berans Lincoln 

Fred   Baber Paris 

Chas.  M.  Connor Toledo 

C.  E.  Haynes Mattoon 

John    H.    Chadwick Tuscola 

Elon  A.  Eldred Carrollton 

Ed.  Wilson Havana 

Stewart    Cuthbertson     ....  Bunker    Hill 

H.  A.   Seymour -.   .  .  Hildsboro 

A.    C.    Bollinger Waterloo 

W.  C.  Carson Greenville 

Curtis  Williams Mt.  Vernon 

C.    O.    Harper Robinson 

Thos.    H.    Creighton Fairfield 

S.    Bartlett   Kerr Metropolis 

H.  O.  Murphy Pinckneyville 

W.    W.    Thomas  .   .  .  Anna 


Delegates. 

Harry   S.    New Indianapolis 

Charles   W.    Fairbanks  ....  Indianapolis 

James  E.    Watson Rushville 

Joseph  D.  Oliver South  Bend 


INDIANA. 
AT  LARGE. 

Alternates. 

W.   H.    McCurdy Evansville 

William  E.  Eppert Terre  Haute 

Summer   A.    Furniss Indianapolis 

Virgil  Reiter Hammond 


Delegates. 
i — James  A.  Hemenway  ....  Boonville 

Charles  F.   Heilman  ....  Evansville 
2— David    R.    Scott Linton 

Jerry  Wooden Gosport 

3 — George  W.   Applegate  ....  Corydon 

Cyrus  M.  Crim Salem 

4 — Oscar    H.    Montgomery  .  .  .  Seymour 

Web   Woodfill Greensburg 


DISTRICTS. 


Alternates. 

John    D.    Craft Evansville 

Thos.  Paxton Princeton 

Direlle    Chancy     Sullivan 

William    H.    Swinda Elnora 

C.  F.  C.  Hancock Jeffersonville 

James    Bobbitt Eckerty 

Frederick  H.   Austin Madison 

Robert   S.   Thompson Rising   Sun 


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ontinued. 


Delegates. 
5 — William   R.    McKeen  .  .  Terre    Haute 

Silas    A.    Hays Greencastle 

6 — Enos    Porter Shelbyville 

Thos.  C.  Bryson Connersville 

7 — William   E.    English  .   .  .  Indianapolis 
Samuel    L.    Shank  ....  Indianapolis 

8 — Harold   Hobbs Muncie 

Edward    C.    Toner Anderson 

9 — Wm.  Holten  Dye Noblesville 

William    Endicott     .  .  Crawfordsville 

10 — William   R.    Wood LaFayette 

Percy   A.    Parry Hammond 

1 1 — David   E.   Harris Jonesboro 

John  P.  Kenower Huntingdon 

12 — R.  H.  Rerick LaGrange 

Henry    Brown Waterloo 

13 — Clement  Studebaker  .   .   .  South   Bend 
Maurice  Fox La  Porte 


DISTRICTS. 


Alternates. 

Jacob    White Rockville 

Jacob  Finkelstein Terre  Haute 

James   F.    Reed Greenfield 

B.    R.    Inman Middletown 

Frederick    C.    Gardner  ....  Indianapolis 

James  N.  Shelton Indianapolis 

Lewis  A.  Graham Decatur 

Ellis  I.   Frame Lynn 

James  Hammell Tipton 

Warren    Eikenberry Kokomo 

Joseph   F.    Sleeper Fowler 

William  H.  Gardiner Valparaiso 

Alphonso    A.    Seagreaves  .  .   .  Logansport 

John   F.   Lawrence Peru 

Lloyd  T.   Bailey Columbia   City 

Isaac    Kann Kendallville 

Lyman  M.  Brackett Rochester 

Jacob   McLaughlin Milford 


IOWA. 

AT  LARGE. 
Delegates. 

George  D.  Perkins Sioux  City 

B.  F.   Carroll Des  Moines 

Luther  A.  Brewer Cedar  Rapids 

James  F.  Bryan Creston 


Alternates. 

Willis  L.   Stern Logan 

Wm.    M.    Chamberlain Davenport 

S.    W.   Klaus Earlville 

L.  D.  Hewes Rockwell  City 


DISTRICTS. 


Delegates. 
i — E.  L.  McClurkin  ....  Morning  Sun 

Lot  Abraham Mt.  Pleasant 

2 — Rudolph  Rohlfs Davenport 

George  W.  French Davenport 

3 — C.  B.  Santee Cedar  Falls 

O.  P.  Morton Clarion 

4 — T.  A.  Potter Mason   City 

A.  C.  Wilson Oelwein 

5 — Wm.   G.   Dows Cedar   Rapids 

E.    H.    Downing Tipton 

6 — Jas.    A.    Devitt Oskaloosa 

Harry  G.  Brown Sigourney 

7 — Jesse   A.    Miller Des    Moines 

E.   H.   Addison Nevada 

8 — A.    B.    Turner,   Jr Corning 

E.    E.    Bamford Centerville 

9 — F.  F.  Everest Council  Bluffs 

W.   S.  Lewis Glenwood 

10 — J.  L.  Stevens Boone 

J.  P.  Mullen Fonda 

1 1 — J.  W.  Hospers Orange  City 

J.    H.    McCord Spencer 


Alternates. 


George  S.   Tucker Keokuk 

La    Monte   Cowles Burlington 

E.   C.  Nichols West  Liberty 

H.   M.   Havner Marengo 

Samuel   A.    Wilson Independence 

C.    G.    Burling Clarksville 

P.   M.   Jewell Decorah 

W.  G.  Shaffer New  Hampton 

C.   A.    Sweet Belle   Plaine 

R.  M.  Corbett Wyoming 

L.  H.  Bates Bloomfield 

J.   H.   P.   Robinson Grinnell 

E.    W.    Dingwell Adel 

J.    O.    Watson Indianola 

J.    A.    McKlveen Chariton 

W.    E.    Crum Bedford 

C.   M.  Younger Guthrie  Center 

J.  B.  Rockafellow Atlantic 

P.  J.   Brandrup Webster  City 

L.  C.  Sutherland Buffalo  Center 

W.    P.    Dawson Aurelia 

T.  B.  Bark  .          Sutherland 


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Delegates. 

Henry    J.    Alien Wichita 

Ralph    Harris Ottawa 


KANSAS. 

AT   LARGE. 

Alternates. 

Ernest    Pihlblad Lindsborg 

W.  T.  Beck .  Holton 


John    M.    Landon Independence 

Ansel    R.    Clark Sterling 


Delegates. 
i— Willis  J.   Railey Atchison 

A.    E.    Crane Holton 

2— U.    S.    Sartin Kansas    City 

C.    O.    Bollinger lola 

3 — Nelson    Case     Oswego 

Norman  Hay Sedan 

4 — J.    B.  Greer Marion 

A.     W.     Logan Quenemo 

5  —  E.     A.     McGregor Washington 

A.    M.    Story Manhattan 


Wilbur    Allen Chanute 

E.  J.  Guilbert Wallace 

DISTRICTS. 

Alternates. 

A.    J.    Collins Sabetha 

John    Berry Troy 

H.    C.   Jones Paola 

E.    G.    Bartberger 

C.    W.     Fleak Howard 

J.    S.    Hubble Fredonia 

W.    E.    Kaltenbach Toronto 

C.     E.     Carroll Alma 

C.    R.    Hawley Abilene 

J.   G.    Strong Blue   Rapids 


6 — E.    S.    Bower Lincoln          F.   B.    Rumsey 


Almena 


E.  E.  Mullaney Hill  City 

7 — J.  S.  George Hutchinson 

Carl  Moore Kinsley 

8 — C.  L.  Davidson Wichita 

H.  L.  Woods Wellington 


W.    B.    Ham Stockton 

A.  H.   Burtis Garden  City 

J.    D.    Rippey Stafford 

A.  J.   Holderman El  Dorado 

C.   W.   Southward .  Wichita 


KENTUCKY. 

AT    LARGE. 
Delegates. 

W.    O.    Bradley Louisville 

Tames     Breathitt      Hopkinsville 


W.    D.    Cochran Maysville 

T.  E.  Wood  .  Danville 


Alternates. 

L.  L.   Bristow Georgetown 

J.  C.   Speight Mayfield 

W.  J.    Seitz West  Liberty 

Stafford   Campbell Lexington 


DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.                                                                   Alternates. 
i — -W.  J.  Deboe Marion         T.    A.    Lawrence Paducah 

John   T.    Tooke Cadiz         M.    Darden .* Cadiz 

2— R.    A.    Cook Hopkinsville         T.    B.    Young Morganfield 

J.    B.    Harvey Madisonville 

^ — R.    E.    Keown Morgantown 

R.    P.    Green Bowling   Green 

4 — Pilson    Smith      Greensburg 

J.   Roy  Bond Elizabethtown 

5 — William  Heyburn    .  . 

Bernard    Bernheim     . 
6 — Maurice    L.    Galvin  . 


.  Louisville 
.  Louisville 
.  Covington 

W.   A.   Burkamp Newport 

7 — R.  C.   Stoll Lexington 

James    Cureton     Newcastle 

8 — Coleman  C.  Wallace  ....  Richmond 
Leonard   W.    Bethurem  .  Mt.    Vernon 

9— John    Russell     Ashland 

W.    C.    Halbert Vanceburg 


P.    H.    Kennedy Henderson 

E.    H.    Black Franklin 

Jeff     Valandingham      Russellville 

A.  A.  Baxter Guston 

W.  H.  Strange Mundfordville 

Woodford    F.    Axton Louisville 

Frank   B.    Russell Louisville 

Joe    S.    Jett Carrollton 

N.   C.   Ridgeway Falmouth 

Geo.    R.    Armstrong Owenton 

Edward    Chenault Lexington 

J.    B.    Kincheloe Shelbyville 

George  W.   Gentry Stanford 

H.  C.  Gudgell Owingsville 

J.  H.  Hawkins Hillsboro 


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Delegates. 
10—  A.  B.  Patrick  .   ......  Salyersville 

John   H.   Hardwick  ......  Stanton 

ii  —  D.    C.   Edwards  ........  London 

O.  II.  Waddle  ........  Somerset 


KENTUCKY.— Continued. 

DISTRICTS. 

Alternates. 

H.    S.    Bush Winchester 

W.    B.    Stepp Inez 


J.    Bethurem Somerset 


H.    H.    Asher 


Wasioto 


LOUISIANA. 


AT   LARGE. 


Delegates, 

C.  S.    Herbert Plaquemines 

Armand  Remain New  Orleans 

Victor  Loisel New  Orleans 

H.    C.    Warmouth Lawrence 

Emile  Kuntz New  Orleans 

D.  A.   Lines  .   .  .  New   Orleans 


Alternates. 

J.    E.    Deslattes Convent 

A.    F.    Leonhardt New    Orleans 

C.    F.    Boagni Opolousas 

Louis   Corde Napoleonville 

Joseph    Fabracher New   Orleans 

Mayer  Cahen New  Roads 


1ST   DISTRICT. 


Delegates. 
r — Walter   L.    Cohen  ....  New    Orleans 

J.  Madison  Vance  ....  New  Orleans- 
2 — Leonard    Waguespack Oubre 

Chas.  J.  Bell New  Orleans 

,; — Ruben  H.   Brown Jeanerette 

•    E.  J.   Rodrigue Paincourtille 

4 — A.    C.    Lea Shreveport 

J.  P.  Breda Natch  itoches 

- — W.  T.  Insley Delhi 

F.  H.  Cook Lake  Providence 

6— E.   W.    Sorrell 

B.  V.  Baranco Baton  Rouge 

7 — L.    E.    Robinson Welsh 

Frank    C.    Labit Crowley 


Alternates. 

H.    Larre New  Orleans 

E.  D.  Burke New  Orleans 

A.  C.  Carpenter New  Orleans 

W.  E.  Robinson New  Orleans 

Rene  Chauffe Breaux  Bridge 

J.  A.  Thornton Morgan  City 

R.    A.    Gliddens Coushatta 

W.  G.  Hudson Shreveport 

John  B.   Hays,  Jr Monroe 

Elijah     Kewall Vidalia 

Alex   Solomon 

Mike  Winfield 

Goldman    L.    LaSalle Opelousas 

J.  S.  Thompson Lake  Charles 


t  MAINE. 

AT   LARGE. 
Delegates. 

Morrill   N.   Drew Portland 

Aretas  E.  Stearns Norway 

Charles   S.   Hichborn Augusta 

Halbert  P.  Gardner  .  .  Patten 


Alternates. 
Wm.  A.  Connellan  .... 

Arthur  G.  Staples 

Chas.    I.    Morang 

J.  P.   Briggs 


.  Portland 
.  .  Auburn 
.  Ellsworth 
.  .  Caribou 


DISTRICTS. 


Delegates. 

i — Frank    M.    Low Portland 

Gilman  N.   Deering Saco 

2 — Jesse  M.  Libby Mechanic 


Wm.  B.  Kendall  .... 
3— Edward  N.  Merrill  .  .  . 

Harry  E.  Merrill  .  .  .  . 
4— A.  E.  Irving 

Edward    M.    Lawrence  . 


.  Bowdoinham 
.  .  Skowhegan 
.  .  Monmouth 
.  Presque  Isle 
.  Luebec 


Alternates. 

H.    H.    Sturgis Standish 

N.    P.    M.    Jacobs Wells 

Eugene  E.  Andrews Norway 

Geo.  E.  Pastorius Newcastle 

Reuben  Snow West  Gardiner 

L.    C.    Morse Liberty 

D.    O.    French Jonesport 

L.    J>.    Waldron Dexter 


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'Delegates. 

Phillips   Lee  Goldsborough  , 
Wm.    T.    Warburton.  .   .  . 


MARYLAND. 

AT  LARGE. 

Alternates. 
Annapolis         Enoch   B.    Abell Leonardtown 


.  Elkton 


Edw.  C.  Carrington,  Jr Baltimore 

Geo.  L.  Wellington Cumberland 


E.    Dale   Adkins Salisbury 

C.    Ross    Mace Rossville 

Gist  Blair Silver  Springs 


DISTRICTS. 


Delegates. 
i— Albert  G.  Tower Denton 

William    B.    Tilghman  ....  Salisbury 
2 — Robert  Garrett Baltimore 

John    H.    Cunningham  .   .  Westminster 
3 — Alfred  A.  Moreland Baltimore 

Louis    E.    Melis Baltimore 

4 — Theodore  P.  Weis Baltimore 

Joseph  P.  Evans Baltimore 

5 — Adrian   Posey La   Plata 

R.    N.    Ryan Brentwood 

6— S.   K.  Jones Oakland 

Galen    L.    Tail .  .  Bethesda 


Alternates. 


W.  J.   Vannort Chestertown 

H.    M.    St.    Clair Cambridge 

J.   Wesley  Carver ....  Havre  de   Grace 

H.   Clay  Suter Catonsville 

George  Geberlein,   Sr Baltimore 

John   T.    Avery Baltimore 

Wm.   G.  Albrecht Baltimore 

Louis    H.    Davenport Baltimore 

Edward   R.   Grempler Baltimore 

Remus  W.  V.  Dorsey  ....  Leonardtown 

F.   E.  R.  Miller Frederick 

Lincoln    N.    Dinterman Frederick 


Delegates. 

Charles  S.  Baxter  .... 
George  W.  Coleman  .  .  . 
Frederick  Fosdick  .  .  .  . 
Albert  Bushnell  Hart .  . 
Octave  A.  LaRiviere .  . 
James  P.  Magenis  .... 

Arthur   L.    Nason 

Alvin  G.  Weeks.  . 


MASSACHUSETTS. 

AT   LARGE. 

Alternates. 

.  .  Medford         John   D.    Long Hingham 

.  .   .  Boston         Benjamin  H.   Anthony  .  .  .  New  Bedford 

.  Fitchburg         Frank    Vogel Jamaica    Plain 

.  Cambridge        Joseph  Monette Lawrence 

.  Springfield         Charles  H.  Innes Boston 

.  Dorchester         Walter    Ballantyne     Boston 

.  .  Haverhill         Isaac  L.   Roberts Boston 

.  Fall   River         Ernest  G.  Adams Worcester 


DISTRICTS. 


Delegates. 
i— Cummings   C.    Chesney  .  .   .  Pittsfield 

Eugene  B.  Blake Greenfield 

2 — Embury  P.    Clark Springfield 

William  H.    Feiker  .  .  .  Northampton 
3 — Matthew  J.  Whittall  ....  Worcester 

Lawrence   F.    Kilty Oxford 

4 — John    M.    Keyes Concord 

Frederick  P.   Glazier Hudson 

5 — Herbert    L.    Chapman Lowell 

Smith  M.  Decker Lawrence 

6 — James   F.    Ingraham,  Jr  .   .  .  Peabody 

Isaac  Patch Gloucester 

7 — Charles    M.    Cox Melrose 

Lynn   M.   Ranger Lynn 

8 — John   Read Cambridge 

George    S.    Lovejoy  ....  Somerville 


Alternates. 


Charles  H.  Cutting North  Adams 

Frank    H.    Metcalf Holyoke 

J.   Clarence  Hill Athol 

David   F.   Dillon Palmer 

Thomas  F.  McGauley Worcester 

William  A.   L.   Bazeley Uxbridge 

Harrie   C.    Hunter Marlborough 

John    E.    Coolidge Waltham 

Peter   Caddell Lowell 

James  R.   Berwick Methuen 

William  W.  Coolidge Salem 

Alfred  E.   Lunt Beverly 

Philip  V.  Mingo Maiden 

Ralph  W.  Reeve Lynn 

Wilton  B.   Fay Medford 

William  F.  Davis  .  .  .  Woburn 


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DISTRICTS. 


Delegates. 
9 — Alfred  Tewksbury Winthrop 

Loyal    L.    Jenkins Boston 

10 — H.   Clifford   Gallagher Milton 

Guy    A.    Ham Boston 

ii — Grafton  D.  Gushing Boston 

W.   Premiss  Parker Boston 

12 — J.    Stearns  Gushing Norwood 

George  L.  Barnes Weymouth 

13 — John  Westall Fall  River 

Abbott  P.   Smith  ....  New  Bedford 
14— Eldon  B.   Keith Brockton 

Warren    A.    Swift .  ,   .  Taunton 


Alternates. 

Daniel  T.  Callahan Boston 

Saverio    R.    Romano Boston 

Frank    B.    Crane Boston 

William    E.    Kingston Quincy 

Martin    Hays     Boston 

Charles    H.    Diggs Boston 

Louis  E.   Flye Holbrook 

Wendell   Williams Milford 

James  Whitehead Fall  River 

Charles  T.   Smith New  Bedford 

William  A.   Nye Bourne 

Lyman  P.  Thomas Middleborough 


MICHIGAN. 

AT  LARGE. 


Delegates. 

John  D.  MacKay Detroit 

William  J.  Richards Crystal  Falls 

George    B.    Morley Saginaw 

Eugene   Fifield Bay   City 

Fred    A.    Diggins Cadillac 

William  Judson Grand  Rapids 


Alternates. 

Alton  T.  Roberts Marquette 

Herbert   A.    Thompson  ....  Williamston 

Crawford    S.    Reilly Sheboygan 

Charles    B.    Warren Detroit 

Charles    E.    White Niles 

Ray  E.  Hart Battle  Creek 


DISTRICTS. 


Delegates. 

i — William    L.    Carpenter  .  %.   .   .   .  Detroit 
John    S.    Haggerty  .......  Detroit 

2 — Frank    T.    Newton Ypsilanti 

L.    Whitney    Watkins .   .  .  Manchester 

3 — John  C.  Potter Charlotte 

Marvin    J.    Schaberg  ....  Kalamazoo 

4 — Edw.    C.    Reid Allegan 

John  T.    Owens  ....  Benton   Harbor 
S — Claude  T.   Hamilton  .   .  Grand  Rapids 

Fred  W.   Green Ionia 

6 — Leonard  Freeman Fenton 

Harry  C.   Guillot Pontiac 

7 — John  Wallace Port  Austin 

Lincoln    Avery Port  Huron 

8 — Theron  W.   Atwood Caro 

William  M.    Smith St.   Johns 

9 — Calvin  A.  Palmer Manistee 

John  A.    Sherman Ludington 

10 — Henry   B.    Smith Bay    City 

Henry    A.    Frambach  .  .  .  Sheboygan 

1 1—  Win.  H.  White Boyne  City 

V.  R.  Davy Evart 

is — J.   H.    Rice Houghton 

J.    C.   Kirkpatrick Escanaba 


Alternates. 

Rondeau  Bunnell Detroit 

George   Engel Detroit 

Fred  A.  Acker Adrian 

Elmer  Teal Milan 

William  B.  Hatch Union  City 

William  T.  Hulscher Battle  Creek 

Charles  O.   Monroe South  Haven 

James    H.    Kinnane Dowagiac 

Melvin   McPherson Lowell 

Herman  F.  Harbeck 

Jos.  Greusel Detroit 

George  W.  Teeple Pinckney 

Charles   W.    Smith Lapeer 

J.  Alexander  Heath Richmond 

John    Baird Saginaw 

Seth    Q.    Pulver Owosso 

William    J.    Branston Newaygo 

Gaylord  M.   Brown Muskegon 

Henry    K.    Gustin Alpena 

William   E.    Reardon Midland 

W.    O.    Watson Breckenridge 

Thomas  J.    White Elk   Rapids 

John  M.  Bush Ironwood 

Wm.    Kelly Vulcan 


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MINNESOTA. 

AT  LARGE. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

E.    K.    Roverud J.  J.   Rachac 

Moses   E.   Clapp W.  W.   Rich 

Milton    D.    Purdy C.    F.    Waterbury 

Jacob  F.  Jacobson \Vm.    O'Brien 

O.    J.    Larson A.    B.   Colburn 

A.    L.    Hanson A.    R.    Charist 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

i — H.    J.    Harm Albert   Lee         R.    H.    Bach Owatsonna 

.    Tollef  Sanderson Harmony         C.    H.    Robinson Wabasha 

2 — William  F.  Hughes Mankato         E.   A.    Brown Luverne 

Emil    King Fulda         C.    W.    Gilmore Pipestone 

3_job     W.     Lloyd W.    A.    Hunt Northfield 

J.  A.  Gates Henry    Simons 

4— Hugh  T.  Halbert St.   Paul         Joseph    M.    Hackney St.    Paul 

R.  A.  Wilkinson Lake  Elmo         M.   S.   Xorelius Lindstrom 

5 — Andrew  A.  D.  Rahn Ernest    Lundeen 

Stanley   Washburn Thomas    Salmon 

6 — Andrew   Davis Elk   River         A.  M.  Opsahl Brainerd 

E.    C.    Turtle Buffalo         T.  J.  Sharkey Staples 

7— T.  T.  Ofsthun Glenwood         M.    S.    Stevens Graceville 

A.J.  Johnson Clarkfield         L.   O.  Thorpe Willmar 

8— W..  A.  Eaton H.   P.   Webb 

W.    H.    LaPlant Charles    Morse 

9 — Charles    L.    Stevens Warren         W.    D.    Leach 

Frank   S.   Lycan Bemidji         Edwin   Matson 

MISSISSIPPI. 

AT  LARGE. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

L.  P».  Moseley Jackson         J.    Jay    White Jackson 

M.  J.   Mulvihill Vicksburg         T.    G.    Ewing,   Jr Vicksburg 

Charles    Banks Mound   Bayou        D.  W.  Sherrod Meridian 

L.  K.   Atwood Jackson         E.  P.  Jones Vicksburg 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

i — James    M.    Dickey Corinth         Parke  Daniels Starkeville 

J.   M.   Shumpert Columbus         E.    D.    Coleman Aberdeen 

2 — J.  F.  Butler Holly  Springs         E.  W.  Dubois Coldwater 

E.  H.   McKissack  ....  Holly  Springs         S.    M.    Howry Oxford 

3 — Louis   Waldauer Greenville         G.    W.    Gilliam Clarksdale 

Daniel    W.    Garey Mayersville         C.  N.  Miller Rolling  Fork 

4 — J.    W.    Bell Pontotoc         H.    B.    Miller Grenada 

W.    \V.    Phillips Kosciusko        Jas.   H.   Goodwin Water  Valley 

5— W.  J.  Price Meridian         T.  J.  Wilson Meridian 

A.  Buckley Enterprise         Wm.  Cleveland Newton 

6 — J.    C.    Tyler Biloxi         B.    A.    Weemes Purvis 

W.    P.    Locker Biloxi        O.  C.  Rodgers Hattiesburg 

7 — C.    R.    Ligon Gloster         H.    C.    Turley Natchez 

E.  F.  Brennan Brookhaven         J.    M.    Wilson Summit 

.8 — Wesley    Crayton Vicksburg         R.  H.  Brooke Vicksburg 

P.  W.  Howard Jackson         J.  M.  R.  Husband Zazoo  City 


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MISSOURI. 

AT  LARGE. 
Delegates. 

Herbert  S.   Hadley Jefferson  City 

Jesse    A.    Tolerton Jefferson  City 

Walter  S.  Dickey Kansas  City 

Hugh  Mclndoe Joplin 


Alternates. 

John   D.    McNeely St.   Joseph 

Frederick    Essen Clayton 

A.    A.     Speer Chamois- 
John   W.   Tippin Springfield 


Delegates. 
i — Charles    E.    Rendlen Hannibal 

Joseph   Moore Memphis 

2 — E.   M.   Lomax Brookfield 

A.    G.    Knight Trenton 

3 — H.  G.  Orton Princeton 

H.    L.    Eads Jamesport 

4 — Ralph  O.  Stauber Butler 

James   S.    Shinabarger  ....  Maryville 
5 — Homer    B.    Mann Kansas  City 

Ernest  R.  Sweeney  ....  Kansas  City 
6— C.  A.   Denton Butler 

C.  H.  Williams Clinton 

7 — Richard  Johnson Springfield 

Louis    Hoffman Sedalia 


Delegates. 
8 — G.  A.  Brownfield Boonville 

Frank   A.    White Versailles 

9 — Oscar  A.  Meyersieck Union 

Clarence  A.  Barnes Mexico 

10 — Otto  F.  Stifel St.  Louis 

Edmond  Koeln St.  Louis 

1 1 — Chas.    R.    Graves St.  Louis 

Henry  L.  Weeke  ...'...  St.  Louis 
12 — Gus    Frey St.  Louis 

Henry  W.  Kiel St.   Louis 

13 — Politte  Elvins Elvins 

John   H.    Reppy Hissboro 

14 — H.    Byrd   Duncan  ....  Poplar   Bluff 

Geo.     S.     Green Naylor 

1 5— C.    S.    Walden Joplin 

O.   P.   Moody Pierce  City 

1 6— Walter   W.    Durnell  .          ...  Cabool 


DISTRICTS. 

Alternates. 

E.    Clay   Worman Kirksville 

J.    W.    Chrisman Unionville 

John   Legendre Salisbury 

J.  S.  Walters Stoutsville 

John    L.    Tilton Allendale 

Sidney  D.   Frost Kingston 

Alfred   H.    Volkman Rockport 

Horace   F.   Leet Maryville 

W.   H.   H.   Piatt Kansas  City 

C.    C.   Madison Kansas  City 

A.    J.    Young Greenfield 

Wm.   C.  Knapp Pleasant  Hill 

C.    S.    Walden Sedalia 

A.    R.    Chinn Glasgow 

DISTRICTS. 

Alternates. 

J.    T.    Caston Jefferson    City 

R.   L.  Logan Columbia 

Edward    H.    Winter Warrenton 

Wm.   W.   Epperson Center 

David   A.    Pareira St.  Louis 

John   Wiethaupt Florissant 

Wm.    R.    Hill St.   Louis 

Spottswood   Rice St.  Louis 

P.     W.     Dunnavant St.  Louis 

Jno.    L.    Hopkins St.  Louis 

Chas.    E.    Kiefner Perryville 

Lin    Grisham      Fredericktown 

J.     M.    Rowe Charleston 

W.    J.    Webb Parma 

Theo.   LaCaff Nevada 

A.   W.   Laramore Pineville 

John    H.    Dennis Hartvillc 


William    P.    Elmer Salem         P.    A.    Bennett 


Buffalo 


MONTANA. 


AT   LARGE. 


Delegates. 

O.  M.  Lanstrum Helena 

Edward  Donlan Missoula 

D.    J.    Charles Butte 

Geo.    T.    Baggs Stevensville 

Sam   Stephenson Great  Falls 

Geo.   W.    Clay Malta 

J.    C.    Kinney Wibaux 

A.    J.    Wilcomb Twin    Bridges 


Alternates. 

John     D.     \Yaite Lewistown 

John    E.    Edwards Forsyth 

Frank    B.    Connolly Billings 

John    A.    Luce Bozeman 

Geo.    Millett     Libby 

E.  J.  Crull Roundup 

W.    C.    Husband Harlowton 

Julius    Lehfeldt     Chinook 


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NEBRASKA. 

AT   LARGE. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

Don    L.    Love Lincoln         John    A.    Davies Butte 

J.   J.    McCarthy Ponca         Don    C.    Van    Deusen Blair 

Nathan    Merriam Omaha         Dan  Garber Red  Cloud 

H.  E.  Sackett Beatrice        O.   L.    Shuman Fairbury 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

i — Julius    C.    Harpham Lincoln         F.    H.    McCarthy Union 

Wm.    Ernst Tecumsehd        L.  H.  Howe Humboldt 

2— J.  E.  Baum Omaha         J.    F.    White Blair 

John    W.    Towle Omaha         Charles  L.  Saunders Omaha 

3— Robert   E.   Evans Dakota   City         L.    F.    Holtz Randolph 

David   Thomas Columbus         H.   Halderson Newman  Grove 

4— George  W.    Neill York        J.    M.    Cox Hampton 

E.  L.  King Osceola         Henry  Keller,  Sr Western 

5— C.   A.   Luce Republican   City         S.  V.   Bailey Holdrege 

A.  C.   Epperson Clay  Center         F.    N.    Merwin Beaver    City 

6 — J.   P.   Gibbons Kearney         J.    S.   McGraw Broken   Bow 

W.    H.    Reynolds Chadron         John    M.    Cotton Ainsworth 

NEVADA. 

AT   LARGE. 
Alternates.  Alternates. 

R.    B.    Govan Tonopah  H.  H.  Brown Tonopah 

H.  V.  Moorehouse Goldfield  G.   A.   Shea National 

W.    W.   Williams Fallon  L.   A.    Gibbons Reno 

E.  E.  Roberts Carson  City  C.    H.    Duborg Reno 

Geo.    S.   Nixon Reno  Albert   Karge Carson    City 

M.    Badt Wells  C.  A.   Ahearn Virginia  City 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE. 

AT   LARGE. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

Fred   W.    Estabrook Nashua         William   F.   Thayer Concord 

Lyford    A.    Merrow Ossipee         John    B.     Gilbert Berlin 

Charles  M.   Floyd Manchester        Albert  J.  Precourt Manchester 

Roland  H.   Spaulding Rochester         Harlan  P.   Amen Exeter 

DISTRICTS. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

i — Hovey  E.   Slayton Manchester     John    C.    Marshall Manchester 

Fernando  W.   Hartford  .   .  Portsmouth         J.    Frank    Seavey Dover 

2 — Charles   Galeshedd Keene         George    B.    Leighton Dublin 

Orton    B.     Brown Berlin     Edward  H.  Best Mount  Vernon 

NEW  JERSEY. 

AT   LARGE. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

John    Franklin   Fort East   Orange         Wilber   A.    Mott South    Orange 

Everett    Colby West   Orange         James   W.    McCarthy Jersey   City 

Edgar  B.  Bacon Jersey  City         J.    Wiggans    Thorn Trenton 

Frank  B.  Jess Camden         Henry    Marelli Patterson 


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NEW  JERSEY.— Continued. 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

i — John  Boyd  Avis Woodbury         Nathaniel   S.   Hires Salem 

Duncan  W.  Blake,  Jr.,  William  Leonard  Hurley Camden 

Cloucester  City 

2 — Joseph  A.  Marvel ....  Atlantic  City        William    H.    Bright Ocean  City 

Frances  D.    Potter Bridgeton         Christopher   H.    Hand Cape    May 

3 — Adrian  Lyon Perth  Amboy  William  Howard  Jeffrey  .  .  .  Toms   River 

Clarence  E.  F.  Hetrick  .  Asbury     Park        Joseph   B.   Hoff Lakewood 

4 — James    E.    Bathgate,    Jr.,  E.  C.  Hutchinson Trenton 

Basking  Ridge 

John   E.    Gill Trenton         John    H.    Fretz Flemington 

5 — Charles   W.    Ennis  ....  Morristown         George  V.  W.  Moy Plainfield 

Edgar   A.    Knapp Elizabeth         Robert   F.    Oram Wharton 

6 — Herbert  M.   Bailey  ....  Hackensack         Frederick   R.    Snyder Newton 

William  W.  Taylor  ....  Philipsburg         Frederick   W.    Mattocks Closter 

7 — James   G.    Blauvelt Patterson         Thomas   R.    Layden Patterson 

Henry  C.   Whitehead Passaic        John  H.  Adamson Patterson 

8 — Louis    M.    Brock Arlington        Theodore   B.   Gottlieb Newark 

John   M.    Klein Belleville         Charles    C.    James Bayonne 

9 — William   A.    Lord Orange         Willis  L.  Brownell East  Orange 

Edward  T.  Ward Newark         Irving    K.    Taylor Orange 

10 — Frank   L.   Driver Newark         Harold  J.  Rowland Mont  Clair 

Edmund  B.   Osborne  ....  Montclair         William  L.  Glorieux Irvington 

1 1 — John  F.   Gardner Jersey  City         George  C.  Mohr 

Frederick  Vollmer,  Jr  .  .  .  .  Hoboken         Herbert    E.    Young 

12 — George    L.    Record.  .  .  .Jersey  City        J.   Herbert  Hinners 

John  Rotherham Jersey  City        John  F.  R.  Anderson 

NEW  MEXICO. 

AT  LARGE. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

Benigno    C.    Hernandes .  Tierra   Amerilla        Ramon  L.   Baca Santa   Fe 

Gregory  Page Gallup         Francis    E.    Wood Albuyuerque 

Frederico   Chavez Estancia        James  W.  Chavez Willard 

J.  M.  Cunningham  ....  East  Las  Vegas         Simon  Vorenburg Wagon  Mound 

E.  A.   Gaboon Roswell         C.    M.    Richards Carlsbad 

W.    D.    Murray Roswell         W.   S.   Coxe Silver  City 

H.  O.  Burcun Socorro         Frank    H.    Winston Hillsboro 

Hugo   Seaberg Raton         Malaquias  Martinez Taos 

NEW  YORK. 

AT  LARGE. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

Elihu   Root New   York   City  Edgar  Truman  Brackett .  .  Saratoga  Spgs 

William    Barnes,    Jr .  .  . Albany    B.  W.  B.   Brown New  York  City 

Edwin   A.    Merritt,   Jr Potsdam  Charles   W.    Anderson  .  .  New  York  City 

William  Berri Brooklyn  George  W.   Whitehead  .  .  .  Niagara   Falls 

DISTRICTS.       « 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

i — William   Carr  ....  Centre   Moriches         C.    Chester   Painter Oyster   Bay 

Smith   Cox Freepodt        Henry  S.  Brush Huntington 

2— Theron  H.  Burden  .  Long  Island  City  Henry  C.  Johnson,  Sr  .  Long  Island  City 

Frank  E.  Losee  ....  Maspeth,  L.  I.         Gilbert  B.   Vorheis Corona,   L.   I. 


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Delegates. 
3 — David  Towle Brooklyn 

Alfred   E.    Vass Brooklyn 

4 — Timothy    L.    Woodruff  .   .   .  Brooklyn 

Wm.   A.   Prendergast  ....  Brooklyn 
5 — William    Berri Brooklyn 

Alfred  T.  Hobley Brooklyn 

6 — William  M.   Calder Brooklyn 

Lewis  M.  Swasey Brooklyn 


7 — Michael   J.    Dady  .   . 

Jacob  Brenner  .  .  . 
8— Marcus  B.  Campbell 

Frederick  Linde  .  . 
9 — Thomas  B.  Lineburgh 

Rhinehard  H.  Pforr 
:o — Clarence  B.  Smith  . 

Jacob  L.  Holtzman  . 
ii — George  Cromwell  .  . 


Chauncey  M.  Depew.,New  York  City 
12 — J.  VanVechten  Olcott.New  York  City 

Alexander  Wolf  .  .  .  New  York  City 
13 — James  E.  March  .  .  .  New  York  City 

Charles  H.  Murray  .  New  York  City 
14 — Samuel  S.  Koenig  .  .New  York  City 

Frederick  C.  Tanner. New  York  City 
15 — Job  E.  Hedges.  .  .  .  New  York  City 

Ezra  P.  Prentice  .  .  .  New  York  City 
1 6 — Otto  T.  Bannard  .  .New  York  City 

Martin  Steinthal  .  .  Ntrw  York  City 

17 — Nicholas  Murray  Butler 

New  York  City 

William  H.  Douglas  .  New  York  City 
1 8 — Ogden  L.  Mills.  .  .New  York  City 

Chas.  L.  Bernheimer.New  York  City 
19 — Samuel  Strasbourger  New  York  City 

Louis  N.  Hammerling.New  York  City 
20 — Herbert  Parsons  .  .  New  York  City 

Samuel  Krulewitch  .  Xew  York  City 
21 — Lloyd  C.  Griscom  .  .  New  York  City 

Frank  K.  Bowers  .  .  New  York  City 
22 — James  L.  Wells  .  .  .  New  York  City 

Ernest  F.  Eilert .  .  .  New  York  City 
23 — Josiah  T.  Newcoml)  .  New  York  City 

Herman  T.  Redin  .  .  New  York  City 
24 — Alexander  S.  Cochran  ....  Yonkers 

William  Archer    .  .  Mt.  Vernon 


NEW  YORK— Continued 

DISTRICTS. 

Alternates. 

George  H.  Rowe Brooklyn 

Walter    H.    Kreiner Brooklyn 

Otto    Muhlbauer     Brooklyn 

John   Diemer Brooklyn 

Robert  Wellwood Brooklyn 

William    P.    Bannister Brooklyn 

Lewis   H.    Pounds Brooklyn 

Charles    C.    Lockwood Brooklyn 

Justin    McCarthy Brooklyn 

Michael  J.   Wheeler Brooklyn 

John  T.  Rafferty Brooklyn 

John    Feitner Brooklyn 

Frank   Bennett Brooklyn 

Gustav   E.    Weber Brooklyn 

Isidor   M.    Rosenblum Brooklyn 

Howard  A.    Wood Brooklyn 

John   Timlin,   Jr Rosebank 

Russell  Bleecker New  Brighton 

Frank  J.   Dotzler New  York  City 

Michael  Ball New  York  City 

John   Boyle,   Jr New  York  City 

Harry   Kopp New  York   City 

William   H.    Wadhams  .   .  New  York  City 
Charles    McConnell     .   .   . 
Courtlandt   Nicoll     .... 
Robert    McC.    Marsh  .   .   . 
George    W.    Wanmaker  .   . 

Louis  Brenner 

John  McConaughy    .... 


.  .  .  Brooklyn 
.  .  .  Brooklyn 
.  .  .  Brooklyn 
.  .  .  Brooklyn 
.  .  .  Brooklyn 
.  .  .  Brooklyn 
.  .  .  Brooklyn 
.  .  .  Brooklyn 
.  Dungan  Hills 


New  York  City 
New  York  City 
New  York  City 
New  York  City 
New  York  City 
New  York  City 


25— William  L.  Ward  . 

John  J.    Brown  .   . 
26 — Joseph    M.    Dickey  . 

Samuel  .K  Phillips  , 
27 — Louis  F.  Payn  .   .   . 

Martin   Cantine    .    . 


.  Port  Chester 
White  Plains 
.  .  Newburgh 
.  .  Mattewan 
.  .  .  Chatham 
.  .  Saugerties 


28 — James  H.  Perkins Albany 

Alba   M.   Ide Troy 


Victor   H.    Duras New  York  City 

Max  Greenberger New  York  City 

Chas.  R.  Pelgram New  York  City 

Louis  Silverstein New  York  City 

Abraham  R.  Lyon  ....  New  York  City- 
Morris  Levy New  York  City 

Nathan  Liberman  ....  New  York  City 
Samuel  J.  Holsinger  .  .  .  New  York  City 
Wilfred  H.  Smith  ....  New  York  City 

Emanuel    Hartz New  York  City 

George   P.   Zipf New  York  City 

Thomas  I.   Crane New  York  City 

J.    Clifford   McChristie  .   .  New  York  City 

John   H.   Nichols New  York  City 

Abram    W.    Herhst  ....  New  York  City 

James  Kilby Nyack 

Frank  L.   Young Ossining 

George    Overocker Poughkeepsie 

Frederick  W.  Wilson Newburgh 

W.  T.  B.  Van  Orden  .   .   .New  Baltimore 

Matthew  Decker Willowemoc 

Harry  S.  Ludlow Troy 

William  L.   L.   Peltz  .  ...  Selkirk 


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Delegates. 
29 — Louis  W.  Emerson  ....  Glens  Falls 

Cornelius  V.  Collins Troy 

30 — Lucius  N.  Littauer  ....  Gloversville 

J.   Ledlie  Hees Fonda 

31 — George    R.    Malby  .  .   .  .  Ogdensburg 

John  H.   Mo  .  tt Plattsburg 

32 — Francis  M.   Hugo Watertown 

Perry    G.    Williams Lowville 

33— Judson  J.  Gilbert Little  Falls 

William    S.    Doolittle Utica 

34 — George    W.    Fairchild  ....  Oneonta 

Lafayette  B.  Gleason Delhi 


.  .  Syracuse 
.  .  Syracuse 
.  . Auburn 
.  Waterloo 
.  .  .  Ithaca 
.  .  Corning 
.  Rochester 
.  Rochester 


35 — Francis  Hendricks    .   . 

James   M.   Gilbert .  .  . 
36 — Sereno  E.   Payne  .  .  . 

Albert    M.    Patterson  . 
37 — Andrew  D.   White  .  . 

Alanson   B.   Houghton 
38 — George  W.   Aldridge  . 

James    L.    Hotchkiss . 
39 — James  W.  Wadsworth,  Jr  .  Mt.  Morris 

Frederick  C.  Stevens Attica 

40 — William    H.    Daniels Buffalo 

James  S.  Simons  ....  Niagara  Falls 
41— Charles  P.  Woltz Buffalo 

Nathan   Wolff Buffalo 

42 — John   Grimm Buffalo 

Simon   Seibert Buffalo 

43 — Frank  Sullivan  Smith  ....  Angelica 

Frank  O.  Anderson  ....  Jamestown 


NEW  YORK— Continued 

.DISTRICTS. 

Alternates. 

Isaac   V.    Baker,  Jr Comstock 

George    W.    Kavanaugh  ....  Westerford 

William  A.  Wick Schenectady 

James    W.    Veeder Schenectady 

Harvey  C.    Carter Malone 

Walter  C.  Witherbee Port  Henry 

Frank  Miller Canastota 

Patrick    W.    Cullinan Oswego 

Edwin    F.    Torrey,  Jr Clinton 

William  H.  Waterbury Frankfort 

William  H.  Hill Lestershire 

Howard    D.    Newton Norwich 

Frank   L.    Hilton Truxton 

George  H.  Wiltsie Cortland 

James  D.   Bashford Lyons 

John  S.  Sheppard Penn  Yan 

Edward  H.  Wands Candor 

Elmer    Sherwood Odessa 

P.    V.    Crittenden Rochester 

Frank  M.  Jones Rochester 

Gurdon    W.    Fitch Albion 

Lewis  W.  Udell Brockport 

George   E.    Greene Lockport 

George  Troup Buffalo 

George    P.    Urban Buffalo 

John  H.  Clogston Alden 

John    D.    Kamman Buffalo 

Charles  H.  Brown Orchard   Park 

Robert  J.  Gross Dunkirk 

M.   G.   Fitzpatrick Olean 


Delegates. 

Zeb   V.    Walser Lexington 

Richmond  Pearson Asheville 

Thomas   E.    Owen Clinton 

Cyrus    Thompson Jacksonville 


NORTH  CAROLINA. 

AT  LARGE. 

Alternates. 

Thomas  J.  Cheek Elizabeth  City 

S.  C.  McGuire Elkin 

H.    C.    Caviness Wilkesboro 

Geo.   M.   Pritchard Marshall 


DISTRICTS. 


Delegates. 
i — Isaac  M.  Meekins .  .  .  Elizabeth  City 

Wheeler  Martin Williamston 

2— Daniel  W.  Patrick Snow  Hill 

George  W.  Stanton Wilson 

3 — Marion   Butler Turkey 

W.  S.  O'  B.  Robinson .  .  .  Goldsboro 
4— J.  C.  L.  Harris Raleigh 

John  C.  Matthews  ....  Spring  Hope 

5 — Jas.    N.   Williamson,   Jr 

Burlington 

Jno.    T.    Benbow .   .  .  Winston-Salem 
6— R.    S.   White Elizabethtown 


Alternates. 

D.  O.  Newberry 

Hugh   Paul 

McM.    Furgerson Littleton 

James  F.  Parrott Kingston 

George  Davis Beaufort 

Don   W.    Basnight Newbern 

Chas.    D.    Wildes Raleigh 

Bland  A.  Mitchell Youngsville 


R.  J.  Petree .  . 
J.  A.  Hoskins . 
C.  C.  McClellan 


.  Gennantown 
.  Summerfield 
Dunn 


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NORTH   CAROLINA.— Continued. 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

D.  H.  Senter Lillington  H.  M.  Spears Lillington 

7 — C.  H.  Cowles Wilkesboro  J.  T.  Winslow Asheboro 

J.  T.  Hedrick Lexington  C.  G.  Bryant Yadkinville 

8 — Moses  N.  Harshaw Lenoir  Jas.  D.  Dorsett Spencer 

W.  Henry  Hobson Salisbury  Robt.  V.  Tharpe Statesville 

9 — S.  S.  McNinch Charlotte  Chas.  A.  Jonas Lincolnton 

Charles  E.  Green Bakersville  Coleman  Ramsey Marshall 

10 — A.  T.  Pritchard Asheville  John  B.  Sumner Arden 

R.   H.    Staton Hendersonville         A.    G.    Deweese Murphy 

NORTH  DAKOTA. 

AT   LARGE. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

].  H.  Cooper Williston         

L.  B.  Garnaas Sheyenne         

August  E.  Johnson Washburn         

W.  S.  Lauder Wahpeton         

A.  L.  Nelson Rolette         

Robert    M.    Pollock Fargo         

Emil    Scow Bowman         

P.  O.  Thorson Grand  Forks         

O.    T.    Tofsrud Rugby         

T.  Twichell Fargo         


OHIO. 

AT  LARGE. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

Harry  M.   Daugherty Columbus  Sherman   S.   Beaton Urbana 

Warren  G.  Harding Marion  Sherman  M.  Granger Zanesville 

David    J.Cable Lima  William  Woods  III Piqua 

Theodore    E.    Burton Cleveland  Louis  C.  Layland Columbus 

Arthur  I.  Vorys Columbus  Julius  Whiting,  Jr Canton 

Charles  P.  Taft Cincinnati  Wm.    L.    Anderson Cincinnati 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

i — Julius     Fleischmann  ....  Cincinnati  J.    H.    Asmann,   Jr Cincinnati 

Sam  L.  Mayer Cincinnati  Charles    F.     Hornberger  ....  Cincinnati 

2 — Geo.  P.  Schott Cincinnati  Albert  Daiker Cincinnati 

Ray  J.    Hillenbrand ....  Cincinnati  William    Miller     Cincinnati 

3 — Daniel   W.   Alaman Dayton  George    B.    Smith Dayton 

John  Clinton  Hooven  ....  Hamilton  Granville  M.  Kumler Lewisburg 

4 — Carl   D.   Jones Greenville  Clinton   B.   De   Weese Sidney 

J.    C.    Pence Lima  Charles   F.   Buchhols St.   Marys 

5— Allen    Bybee Paulding  Geo.    D.   Edgar Defiance 

Frank  Carlo Van  Wert  Charles    Varner     Continental 

6 — Carroll  C.  Eulass Ambrose  W.   Asbury Wilberforce 

Robert   J.    Shawhan Lebanon  David   F.   McCoy Wilmington 

7 — John  L.  Bushnell George    W.    Lindsay Circleville 

Isaac  K.  Funderburg .  .  New  Carlisle  Thomas   W.    Burton Springfield 

8 — N.   L.   MacLachlan Findlay  Chas.    A.    Wood Mechanicsburg 

Lewis   Slack Delaware  Walter  Sanaft Broadway 

9 — Carl  D.  Finch Bowling  Green  Charles    L.    Allen Fayette 


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OHIO— Continued 

DISTRICTS. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

Geo.  E.  Hardy. Toledo        Eli    Dolph     Geno* 

10 — Sherman   H.    Eagle Gallipolis         \Vm.    E.    Pricer Ironton 

Phillip   M.    Streich  ....  Portsmouth 
1 1 — Henry   Zenner Athens         Felix   Swope Lancaster 

James  Thomas Logan         H.   E.  Stoneburner Crooksville 

12— Karl   T.    Webber Columbus  Clay    Alder Hilliardi 

King  G.  Thompson Columbus  Robert  S.  Allen Columbus 

13— Thomas   P.    Dewey Clyde  L.    R.    Parker Fostoria 

Carl  J.  Gugler Galion  Joseph    E.    Maxwell  .   .   .  Upper    Sandusky 

14 — Arthur  L.  Garford Elyria  Ray    L.    McFarland Mt    Gilead 

H.  G.  Hammond  ....  Buckeye  City  C.     E.     Ward Lorain 

15 — David  L.  Melick Roseville  James    Ball    Naylor Malta 

Arthur    C.    Smith Byesville  John    C.    Swan Marietta 

16 — Emmett   E.    Erskine  .   .   .  Steubenville  E.   L.   Henderson.  ..."...  .  Carrollton 

Cook  Danford Bellaire  Thomas   B.    Rouse Woodsfield 

17 — Enos   S.    Souers  .  .  New    Philadelphia  Barton  Snyder Millersburg 

Andrew    S.    Mitchell Newark  Benjamin    F.    Fair Wooster 

1 8 — Emil  J.  Anderson.  .   .   .  Youngstown  George   R.    Floyd Alliance 

Harry  A.  March Canton  Joseph  Owens Youngstown 

19     VV.  J.  Beckley Ravenna  Frank  T.  Coughlan Connaut 

Edwin  Seedhouse Akron  W.    R.    Davis Chardon 

20 — A.   D.   Aylard Medina  A.     R.    Dittrick Cleveland 

Joseph   H.    Speddy Lakewood  C.  A.  Hine Painesville 

21 — J.    W.    Conger Cleveland  Alexander  H.   Martin Cleveland 

John  J.   Sullivan Cleveland  Walter    D.    Price Cleveland 

OKLAHOMA. 

AT    LARGE. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

Robert    McKeen ,-   •   •  Guthrie  J.  J.   Erwin Welston 

George  H.  Brett  .* .  Ponca  City  Jack   Jones Oklahoma   City 

Edd   Herrinn Apache  B.   J.   Hobbs 

Allen  L.  McDonald El  Reno  George  Hughes Saapuip 

L.   S.  Skelton Okmulge  G.    A.    Kyle Salisaw 

Gilbert  Woods Coalgate  James    B.    Cullison Enid 

A.  E.  Perry Okemah  H.   D.   Porter Sentinel 

Tom  Wall Poteau  H.  L.   Hicks 

T.    H.    Dwyer Chickasha  William    Butler McAlester 

Ewers  White McLoud  Edward    Butler Durant 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

i — George    M.    Dizney Enid  

Dan  Norton Chandler  

2— G.  A.  Paul Oklahoma  City  H.    M.    Tilton Anadarko 

H.   A.   Bower Fairview  F.  Winslow Carmen 

3 — Joseph  A.  Gill Vinita  P.    B.    J.    Hudson Wagoner 

J.    W.    Gilliland Holdenville  Harry    Levy Muskogee 

4— C.  W.  Miller Hugo  C.  T.  Barney Ada 

G.    A.    Ramsey Ardmore  F.   E.   Kenamer Madill 

5 — M.    A.    Tucker Lawton  J.   A.    Mathias Frederick 

J.    R.    Eckles Waureka  Pryor    Adkins     Norman 


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OREGON. 

AT   LARGE. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

Charles    W.    Ackerson Portland         

Daniel  Boyd Enterprise         

Fred   S.    Bynon Salem         

Homer   C.    Campbell Portland         

Charles    H.    Carey Portland 

Henry   Waldo    Coe Portland         

D.   D.   Hail Hosier         

Thomas    McCusker Portland         

J.  N.   Smith Salem         

A.    V.    Swift Baker         

PEXXSYLVAXIA. 

AT   LARGE. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

Ziba  T.    Moore Philadelphia         Frederick  S.  Drake Philadelphia 

H.     H.    Gilkyson Phoenixville         Virgil  D.   Acker Galeton 

William    P.    Young Pottstown         Harry    B.   Myers Lewistown 

Robert    D.    Towne Scranton         Robert   A.    Orbison Huntingdon 

John    E.    Schiefley Edwardsville         B.   F.  Madore Bedford 

William   H.   Hackenberg Milton  William    R.    Schmucker  ....  Littlestown 

George   R.    Scull Somerset  Phillip    E.    Womelsdorff  .   .  .  Phillipsburg 

Owen  C.   Underwood Washington  Reynolds  Laughlin    .   .   .  New  Kensington 

William    W.    Kincaid Meadville         Thomas   A.    H.    Hay Easton 

Lex   N.   Mitchell Punxsutawney        Charles  C.   McClain Indiana 

Fred   W.    Brown Franklin         Oscar    J.    Denny Sharon 

George  H.    Flinn Pittsburgh         W.    L.    McCullagh Pittsburgh 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

i — Hugh  Black Philadelphia        John    C.    Asbury Philadelphia 

William  S.  Vare Philadelphia  Andrew    F.    Stevens  ......  Philadelphia 

2 — E.  T.  Stotesbury Philadelphia         Howard  B.  French Philadelphia 

John  Wanamaker    ....  Philadlephia         Ed.  R.  Wood Philadelphia 

3 — J.  H.   Bromley Philadelphia  Charles    E.    Carpenter  ....  Philadelphia 

Harry   C.   Ransley  ....  Philadelphia        John  P.  Connelly Philadelphia 

4 — H.    Horace    Dawson  .  .   .  Philadelphia         Geo.    Bradford    Carr Philadelphia 

Chas.    F.    Freihofer .   .  .  Philadelphia         Alex.    Lawrence,    Jr Philadelphia 

5 — William     Disston Philadelphia     Edwin    W.    Foster Philadelphia 

John  T.  Murphy Philadelphia         Francis  P.   Moitz Philadelphia 

6 — Samuel  Crothers Philadelphia         William   Gibson Philadelphia 

William    Draper    Lewis  .  Philadelphia         J.    Fred   Jenkinson Philadelphia 

7 — John  J.    Gheen West  Chester         Frederick  A.  Howard Chester 

James  W.   Mercur  ....  Wallingford         Isaac    E.    Miller Phoenixville 

8 — B.     C.     Foster Bristol         Ralph  Greider Bristol 

C.  Tyson  Kratz Norristown         Adolph   Printz Pottstown 

9 — Wm.  W.  Griest Lancaster        Chas.  A.  Grady Marietta 

Wm.  H.  Keller Lancaster         Chas.  S.  Whitson Nottingham 

10 — John  Von  Bergen,  Jr  .   .   .  .  Scranton         Peter   Stipp Scranton 

Gro.    B.    Carson Scranton         A.  A.   Vosberg Scranton 

1 1 — Stephen   J.    Hughes Hazelton        John  Karboski Nanticoke 

David   M.    Rosser Kingston         Thomas   B.    Mitten W.    Pittston 

12 — Thomas  R.  Edwards.  .  .  Shenandoah         E.    F.    Philips Tower   City 

H.    D.    Lindermuth Auburn         Thomas  B.  Wren Mahanoy  City 


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PENNSYLVANIA— Continued 

DISTRICTS. 


Delegates. 
13 — Fred  E.  Lewis Allentown 

B.  Frank  Ruth Reading 

14 — Bradley  W.   Lewis  .   .  .  Tunkhannock 

Dana  R.  Stephens Athens 

15— Harry  W.  Pyles Williamsport 

Robert    K.    Young Wellsboro 

1 6 — A  very  Clinton  Sickles.  .  .  .Berwick 

W.  H.  Unger Shamokin 

17 — Thos.  A.  Appleby Mt  Union 

Chas.    B.    Clayton  ....  Waynesboro 
1 8 — Harry    Hertzler Carlisle 

Chas.    E.    Landis Harrisburg 

,g — w.    Lovell    Baldrige  .   .  Hollidaysburg 

Mahlon  H.  Myers Johnstown 

so — F.  H.   Beard Hanover 

Grier  Hersh York 

21 — E.   G.   Boose Luthersburg 

Guy    B.    Mayo Smethport 

22 — John  C.  Dight Mars 

William  C.  Peoples  ....  Greensburg 
23 — Harvey    M.    Berkeley  ....  Somerset 

Allen  F.  Cooper Uniontown 

24 — James   H.   Cunningham  ....  Beavor 

George  Davidson Beavor 

25 — Phillip    J.     Barber Erie 

Manley   O.    Brown Meadville 

36 — Leighton  C.  Scott Lansford 

William    Tonkin     Easton 

27— J.  W.  Foust Reynoldsville 

Harry  W.   Truitt Indiana 

38 — John   L.    Morrison  ......  Greenville 

J.    C.    Russell Warren 

29 — Judd  H.  Bruff Pittsburgh 

Richard  R.  Quay  .  .   .  Sewickley  Hts. 
3o — William    H.    Coleman  .   .  McKeesport 

Samuel  C.   Jamison Pittsburg 

31 — William   Flinn Pittsburg 

Charles  F.  Frazee Pittsburg 

32 — David   B.   Johns Carnegie 

Louis  P.   Schneider Pittsburg 


Alternates. 
George    D.    Hall ......'..  Allentown 

John    W.    Slipp Birdsboro 

Emery  W.  Estus  ........  East  Bush 

Mark   T.    Tuttle Hawley 

Harry  Jacobs Galeton 

John   W.    Van   Horn  ....  Montoursville 

John  Hileman,  Jr Dushore 

J.  A.  Lamb Sunbury 

Chas.  L.  Johnson New  Bloomfield 

W.  L.  Mertz West  Milton 

M.  B.  Fretz Palmyra 

Edward  S.  McFarland Harrisburg 

Curtis  G.  Campbell . Johnstown 

Frank  G.   Patterson Altoona 

Geo.    B.   Aughinbaugh Gettysburg 

Wm.    C.    Licking York 

G.  W.  Mattern Oceola  Mills 

Frank  P.  Slocum Bradford 

John    P.    Carroll . Ligonier 

James    B.    Hammond Bolivar 

Samuel   A.    Kendall Meyersdale 

George  W.   Newcomer  ....  Connellsville 

Rufus  C.  McKinley New  Castle 

George  B.  Zahniser New  Castle 

John  R.  Mulkie Union  City 

Daniel  F.  Reuting Titusville 

W.  P.  O.  Thomason Easton 

Frederick  C.  Roberts Easton 

H.    E.    Corbett New    Bethfehem 

M.   I.   Means Kittanning 

T.  D.  Collins Nebraska 

John    Curry Ridgway 

Herman  W.  Stratman Pittsburg 

W.   W.   Woffington Natrona 

Harry  W.    Mclntosh Wilkinsburg 

W.   R.   Shoemaker Wilmerding 

Paul    S.    Ache Pittsburg 

Michael  J.    Ehrenfeld Pittsburg 

Robert  W.  Gibson  ....  Wilson  Borough 
Thomas    D.    Jones Pittsburg 


Delegates. 

Henry  F.  Lippitt Providence 

George   R.  Lawton Tiverton 

R.  H.  I.  Goddard,  Jr Providence 

Herbert  W.  Rice Providence 


RHODE  ISLAND 

AT  LARGE. 

Alternates. 

Charles  A.  Wilson Warwick 

William    Gammell,    Jr Providence 

Rowland   Hazard  ....  South   Kingstown 
Henry  O.  Potter Providence 


DISTRICTS. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

i— R.    Livingston  Beeckman  .  .  .  Newport         Clark  Burdick Newport 

Ezra    Dixon Bristol         James  G.  Blaine  III Providence 


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Delegates. 
2 — George  B.  Waterhouse  ....  Warwick 

Frank  W.  Tillinghast Johnston 

3 — Harry   Cutler Providence 

Volney  M.  Wilson,  Jr  .   .   .  Providence 


RHODE    ISLAND.— Continued. 

DISTRICTS. 

Alternates. 

Richard   W.    Jennings Cranston 

Henry    B.    Kane Narragansett 

William  B.  MacColl Providence 

Jesse    Sharp Woonsocket 


Delegates. 

Joseph  W.  Tolbert Greenwood 

J.    Duncan   Adams Charleston 

J.    R.   Levy Florence 

\V.    T.    Andrews  .  .  .  Sumter 


SOUTH  CAROLINA. 

AT   LARGE. 

Alternates. 

T.   A.    Williams Newberry 

W.    M.    Freeman Spartanburg 

J.    H.    Fordham Orangeburg 

A.     S.     Johnson Columbia 


DISTRICTS. 


Delegates. 
i — Thomas    L.     Grant Charleston 

Aaron   P.    Prioleau Eutawville 

2— W.    D.    Ramey Edgefield 

\V.    S.    Dixson Barnwell 

3 — Ernest    F.    Cochran Anderson 

R.    R.    Tolbert,    Jr Abbeville 

4 — Thomas    Brier     Greenville 

Frank    J.    Young Spartanburg 

5 — John    F.   Jones Blacksburg 

C.   P.  T.  White Rock  Hill 

6 — J.    E.    Wilson Florence 

J.  A.  Baxter Georgetown 

7 — Alonzo   D.   Webster  ....  Orangeburg 

T.    H.    Goodwyn Weston 


Alternates. 

George  Gregory Charleston 

S.   M.   Walker Summerton 

J.    M.    Jones Saluda 

John   Elbert  Eve Barnwell 

L.    C.     Waller Greenwood 

J.    G.     Daniels Westminster 

Wade   Hampton Union 

Laban    Morgan     Spartanburg 

W.   M.   Goodwin Blacksburg 

R.  H.  Haile Camden 

E.    J.    Sawyer Bennettsville 

L.   F.  Johnson Marion 

Jacob    Moorer Orangeburg 

L.     A.    Hawkins  .    .  Columbia 


Delegates. 

R.    S.    Bessey Pierre 

C.  L.  Dotson Sioux   Falls 

S.    X.    Way Water    Town 

G.   C.  Redfield Rapid  City 

Alan    Bogue,    Jr Centerville 

A.    E.   Bossingham Geddes 

Isaac  Lincoln Aberdeen 

M.    G.    Carlisle Brookings 

William   Williamson Oacoma 

I=aac   Emberson Lemmon 


SOUTH  DAKOTA. 

AT  LARGE. 

Alternate :t. 
Chas.   L.   Nicholson  .... 

L.    W.    Henderson 

C.  M.  Harrison 

A.   O.  Ringsrud 

A.    W.    Krueger 

C.    H.    Lien 

W.    C.    Gemmill 

L.    Hasbold     . 


Cox.  .  . 
Hoffman 


.  .  .  Redfield 
,  .  .  .  Dupree 

.  Sioux  Falls 

.  .  Elk  Point 
.  .  .  .  Groton 

.  .  .  Summit 
.  .  .  .  Canton 

.  .  Flandreau 
.  .  .  .  Presho 

.   .  Mclntosh 


TENNESSEEE. 

AT  LARGE. 
Delegates. 

Newell    Sanders Chattanooga 

Xen    Hicks Clinton 

John    J.    Gore Nashville 

John    W.     Ross Camden 


Alternates. 

E.    A.    Love Benton 

H.   M.   Tate Knoxville 

R.    C.    Cochran Dyersburg 

Harry  H.  Case Memphis 


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TENNESSEE— Continued 

DISTRICTS. 
Delegates. 

i — Sam    R.    Sells 

R.    E.    Donnally 

a— T.   A.   Wright Knoxville 

John  J.  Jennings,   Jr Jellico 

3 — H.    Clay   Evans Chattanooga 

John    H.    Early Chattanooga 

4 — George  T.   Renfro Crossville 

W.    A.    Smith La    Fayette 

5— John    W.    Overall Liberty 

A.    V.    McLane Lewisburg 

6 — W.    D.   Howser Clarksville 

J.    A.    Althauser Greenbriar 

7 — Marion    Richardson     .   .  Lawrenceburg 

R.   S.   Hopkins Columbia 

8 — R.   M.   Murray Trezavant 

J.  W.  Stewart Henderson 

9 — John  B.  Tarrant Henning 

James    W.    Brown  ....  Brownsville 

10 — H.    O.   True Memphis 

R.    R.   Church,  Jr Memphis 


Alternates. 

James   Wood 

C.    C.    Collins 

I.     L.    Moore Knoxville 

James  H.  Wallace Clinton 

C.    S.    Steward Chattanooga 

Gordon   Hyatt Ducktown 

Jos.  G.  Wright Jamestown 

J.   L.   Holland La   Fayette 

W.    S.    Tipton Shelbyvilk 

James   S.    Spence Murfreesboro 

J.    W.    Johnson Nashville 

W.  W.  Taylor Nashville 

Noble  C.   White Pulaski 

W.    E.     Farris Clifton 

L.    P.    Raines Parsons 

P.    M.    Harbert Savannah 

M.  W.  Robinson Martin 

C.  P.   Patterson Union  City 

J.   G.    LaCost Tipton 

J.    T.    Settle Memphii 


Delegates. 

H.    F.    McGregor Houston 

W.   C.   Averille Beaumont 

C.   K.   McDowell Del    Rio 

J.   E.   Lutz Vernon 

J.    E.    Elgin San    Antonio 

W.    H.    Love McKinney 

W.    M.    McDonald  .....<.  Fort  Worth 
G.    W.     Burroughs Fort  Worth 


TEXAS. 

AT  LARGE. 

Alternates. 

F.    E.    Scobey San    Antonio 

W.   B.  Brush Austin 

W.  E.  King Dallas 

W.    H.    Broyls Houston 

H.   C.   Gorse Atlanta 

Tom   Dailey Texarkana 

J.  B.  Gardenhire Rockwall 

S.   A.   Hackworth Dickinson 


DISTRICTS. 


Delegates. 
i — Phil    E.    Baer Paris 

R.    B.    Harrison Texarkana 

2 — George   W.    Eason  ....  Nicogdoches 

C.   L.   Rutt Beaumont 

3 — F.  N.  Hopkins Alba 

J.   L.  Jackson Tyler 

4 — A.  L.  Dyer Celina 

M.   O.  Sharp Denison 

S — Eugene   Marshall Dallas 

Harry    Beck Hillsboro 

6 — J.    Allen    Myers Bryan 

Rube  Freedman Corsicana 

7 — J.    H.    Hawley Galveston 

H.   L.   Price Palestine 

8 — C.    A.    Warnken Houston 

Spencer  Graves Richmond 

9 — C.  M.  Hughes Wharton 

M.   M.   Rodgers La  Grange 


Alternates. 

George   Guest Paris 

S.    J.    Spencer Texarkana 

H.  M.  Smith Port  Arthur 

R.    E.    Troutman Jacksonville 

S.    L.     Williams Malakoff 

James    Wallace     Terrill 

D.  A.    Ryan     Point 

F.   C.  Allen Bonham 

George    F.    Rockhold  .  .' Dallas 

W.   A.    Pierce Itasca 

J.   G.  Devoe Thornton 

J.  E.  Kelly Milano 

Webster   Wilson Galveston 

T.   C.   Tarver Crockett 

E.  L.   Angier Huntsville 

David  Abner Conroe 

Edward  S.  Glaze Goliad 

S.    J.    Haller Brazoria 


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TEXAS. — Continued. 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

10 — H.    M.    Moore Austin  L.   R.   Whiting Brenham 

F.  L.  Welch Taylor  J.    M.    Clark. .  Giddings 

ii — T.  J.   Darling Temple  C.    C.   Baker Hamilton 

B.  G.   Ward Marlin  J.  W.  Cocke Waco 

12 — Eugene  Greer Comanche  I.    B.    Cupp Stephenville 

C.  C.    Littleton Weatherford  Sam  Davidson Fort  Worth 

13 — W.  H.  Featherston Henrietta  K.   N.   Hapgood Henrietta 

F.  H.  Hill Panhandle  C.  A.  Fisk Amarillo 

14 — J.  M.  Oppenheimer  .  .  San  Antonio  Fred  Terrell San  Antonio 

John  Hall Lampasas  N.  V.  Disslinger New  Braunfels 

15— J.  C.  Scott Corpus  Christi  C.  P.  Wood Sabinal 

T.  J.  Martin Stofford  H.  M.  Wurzbach Seguin 

1 6— L.  S.  McDowell Big  Springs  O.  H.  Baum El  Paso 

U.    S.    Stewart El   Paso        R.  C.  Sanderson Red  Springs 

UTAH. 

AT   LARGE. 

Delegates.  A  Iternates. 

Joseph  Howell Logan         Lorenzo  N.  Stohl Brigham  City 

George    Sutherland  ....  Salt  Lake   City        Win.  D.  Sutton Park  City 

Reed   Smoot Provo        Wm.   Glasmann Ogden 

William   Spry  , Salt  Lake  City        Thos.    O'Donnell Vernal 

Jacob  Johnson Spring  City        John    Walsh Farmington 

C.  E.  Loose Provo        John  De  Gray  Dixon Provo 

Jas.  M.  Peterson Richfield        B.   R.  McDonald Price 

C.    R.    Hollingsworth Ogden        Robert    Welch     Morgan 

VERMONT. 

AT   LARGE. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

Carroll   S.   Page Hyde  Park        Joseph  T.    Stearns Burlington 

J.   Gray   Estey Brattleboro        Leighton   P.   Slack St.   Johnsbury 

John   L.    Lewis North   Troy         Orlando    L.    Martin Plainfield 

John    A.    Mead Rutland        Newman    K.    Chaffee Rutland 

DISTRICTS. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

i — William    R.    Warner  ....  Vergennes         Edward   F.    Clark Manchester 

John  L.  Southwick Burlington         Charles  H.   Stearns Johnson 

2 — E.   W.    Gibson Brattleboro        Dana  H.   Morse Randolph 

Frank   D.   Thompson Barton        J.   A.    Chapin Middlesex 

VIRGINIA. 

AT   LARGE. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

C.  B.  Slemp .  Big  Stone  Gap        J.    B.   Kimberly Fortress   Monroe 

Alvah   H.    Martin Norfolk        Wm.   B.   King Bluemont 

R.  H.  Angell Roanoke        Jno.    R.  Brown Martinsville 

R.    E.    Cabell Richmond        R.    A.    Gamble Petersburg 


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VIRGINIA.— Continued. 


DISTRICTS. 


Delegates. 
i — Clarence    G.     Smithers  .  Cape  Charles 

George  R.  Mould  .  .  .  Newport  News 
2 — D.  Lawrence  Groner Norfolk 

P.   J.   Riley Portsmouth 

3 — Joseph  P.   Brady Richmond 

W.   R.   Vawter Richmond 

4 — H.  C.  Willson Petersburg 

W.    B.   Alfred Clarksville 

S— S.   Floyd  Landreth Galax 

A.    H.    Staples Stuart 

6— S.    H.    Hoge Roanoke 

J.   E.    B.    Smith  ....  Christiansburg 
7 — John   Paul Harrisonburg 

R.    J.    Walker Mt.   Jackson 

8 — Joseph    L.    Crupper  ....  Alexandria 

M.    K.    Lowery Brooke 

9 — L.  P.  Summers Abingdon 

A.    P.    Crockett Coeburn 

10 — Geo.    A.    Revercomb  ....  Covington 

R.    A.    Fulwiler Staunton 


Alternates. 

H.   H.   Kimberly Hampton 

C.   F.   Hicks Bowling  Green 

R.    P.     Bunting Portsmouth 

A.  B.   Seldner Norfolk 

B.  M.     Peachy Williamsburg 

Melvin   Flegenheimer Richmond 

W.    S.    Barrett Dendron 

L.    W.    Paris Kenbridge 

B.    R.   Powell Elba 

Raymond   Davis Rocky  Mount 

G.     C.    Ainslee Bedford 

Lee  S.  Wolfe South  Boston 

B.   I.   Bickers Standardsville 

L.   H.  Zirkle New  Market 

William  Brown Lincoln 

J.    B.    Grayson Warrenton 

J.    M.    Daugherty Nickelsville 

Geo.   W.    Hammitt Bristol 

H.    C.    Goodwin Avon 

L.    O.    Haden Palmyra 


WASHINGTON. 

AT  LARGE. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

Howard  Cosgrove Seattle  A.    G.    Tillingham Laconner 

R.    W.    Condon Port    Gamble  John  T.  Phillips 

E.    B.    Benn Aberdeen  George    R.    Cortier South    Bend 

William   Jones Tacoma  W.    A.    Peters Seattle 

W.    T.    Dovell Seattle  Mowman  Stevenson Stevenson 

Peter  Mutty Port  Townsend  Alex.    Miller Yakima 

M.   E.   Field C.    P.    House Okanogan 

A.  D.  Sloane North  Yakima  Josiah  Collins Seattle 

DISTRICTS. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

i — Hugh    Eldridge Bellingham  A.    E.    Mead Bellingham 

Patrick  Halloran Edison  L.    P.    Hornberger Seattle 

2— F.     H.    Collins Goldendale  C.    A.    Taylor 

E.  B.  Hubbard Centralia  Alexander    Poison     Hoquiam 

3— C.   C.  Case Walla  Walla  T.    N.    Henry Prosser 

W.   N.   Devine E.    E.    Yarwood 

WEST  VIRGINIA. 

AT  LARGE. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

Wm.    E.   Glasscock Charleston         Joe    Taylor Charleston 

Wm.    P.   Hubbard Wheeling        James   E.    Law Clarksburg 

Samuel    B.    Montgomery  ....  Kingwood         I.  K.   Bechtol Berkeley  Springs 

Wm.   Seymour   Edwards ....  Charleston         N.    C.    McNeill Marlinton 

Charles  A.  Swesringen  ....  Parkersburg         E.    L.   Hayes Grantsville 

David  B.   Smith Huntington         C.    C.   Barnett Huntington 


330  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

WEST   VIRGINIA.— Continued. 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

i — S.   G.    Smith Wheeling  E.   M.   Atkinson Elm   Grove 

Harry  Shaw Fairmont  W.  S.  Wooddell Weston 

2 — William  H.  Somers  .   .  .  Berkeley  Spr.  Arthur  Dayton Philippi 

James  P.   Fitch Morgantown  J.    O.    Henson Martinsburg 

3 — E.    W.    Martin Buckhannon  S.    F.    Clay  . Lewisburg 

M.  J.    Simms Montgomery  A.  L.    Craig Richwood 

4 — Amos  Bright Sutton  O.  C.  Ogden St.  Mary't 

W.    S.    Sugden Sistersville  G.    S.    Flesher Cairo 

5 — Thomas   Kay    Laing Heber    H.    Rice 

Edward  Cooper M.    T.    Whittico 

WISCONSIN 

AT  LARGE. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

Andrew    K.    Dahl Westby  J.    J.     Elaine  . Boscobel 

Walter   L.    Houser Mondovi  Theo.    Kronshage Milwaukee 

Alvin    P.    Kletzsch Milwaukee  John   Bottensek Appleton 

Francis   E.    McGovern Milwaukee  V.    S.    Keppel Holmen 

DISTRICTS. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

i — Sidney  C.  Goff Elkhorn  Victor  P.   Richardson Janesville 

Walter  S.  Goodland Racine  Henry   Lockney Waukesha 

2 — Charles  W.  Pfeifer  .  Sheboygan  Falls  Eugene    Mclntire Waldo 

Leslie  A.  Wright Columbus  C.   S.  Porter Fox  Lake 

3 — Michael    B.    Olbrich Madison  Sol.  Levitan Madison 

William  J.  Pearce Dodgeville  Alvin    B.    Peterson  ....  Soldiers    Grove 

4 — Christian     Doerfler  ....  Wauwatosa  John  M.  O'Rourke Milwaukee 

John  C.  Kleczka Milwaukee  Henry    G.    Disch Milwaukee 

5 — Henry   F.    Cochems  ....  Milwaukee  C.  A.  A.  McGee Milwaukee 

William   P.   Jobse Milwaukee  Arthur    Luebke Milwaukee 

6 — Wilbur  E.   Hurlbut Omro  Aaron   J.   Torrison Manitowoc 

William  Mauthe    ....  Fond  du  Lac  Ernest  Greverns Berlin 

7 — Oscar    W.    Schoengarth .   .  Neillsville  L.    B.    Squier Tomah 

James   A.   Stone Reedsburg  George   F.    Cooper  .  .   .  Black   River  Falls 

8 — Arthur    W.    Prehn Wausau  Edward    O'Connor     Hancock 

Eli    E.    Winch Marshfield  E.    V.    Werner Shawano 

9 — Samuel    H.    Cady Green    Bay  Geo.  D.   Wing Algoma 

Lewis    L.    Johnson Sawyer  E.    A.    Morse Antigo 

10 — Henry   S.    Comstock  .  .  .Cumberland  C.   A.    Ingram Durand 

Walter  C.   Owen  ....  Maiden   Rock  P.    H.    Lindley Chippewa    Falls 

ii — David  C.   Jones Tomahawk  E.    E.    Husband Balsam   Lake 

Albert    W.    Sanborn Ashland  F.    A.    Lowell Rhinelander 

WYOMING. 

AT    LARGE. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

F.   E.   Warren C.  M.  Eby 

C.   D.    Clark John  Morton 

F.    W.    Mondell C.  E.  Carpenter 

W.    F.    Walls J.    D.   Woodruff 

Patrick   Sullivan John  A.  Guild 

W.    H.    Huntley John  Berry 


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ALASKA. 

AT  LARGE. 

Delegates.  Alternates. 

Jafet  Lindberg Nome,  Alaska         W.  H.  Hoggatt Summit,  N.  J, 

L.  P.  Shackleford Juneau,  Alaska         J.    T.    Sullivan  ....  San   Francisco,    Cal. 

DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA. 

AT  LARGE, 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

Aaron     Bradshaw Washington         Wm.     Tindall Washington 

Wm.    Calvin   Chase Washington         Chas.  H.  Marshall Washington 

HAWAII. 

AT  LARGE. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

Walter  F.  Freer Wm.  T.  Monsarrat 

Jonah    K.    Kalanianacle Antonio    Q.    Marcallino 

George  F.   Renton John    H.    Wise 

John  T.  Moir Carl  H.  Carlsmith 

Harry  A.  Baldwin Chas.     Wilcox 

Chas.  A.  Rice John  H.  Coney 


PHILIPPINES. 

AT   LARGE. 
Delegates.  Alternates. 

John    M.    Switzer Herbert   D.    Gale 

T.    L.    Hartigan W.  G.  Masters 

PORTO   RICO. 

AT   LARGE. 
Delegates.    ,  Alternates. 

Mateo  Fajardo Guillermo     Reifkohl  .... 

Sosthenes    Behn Jorge   Silva 

Leopoldo  Feliu  (substitute) 
Juan  B.  Soto  (substitute)  . 


REPORT   OF  COMMITTTE  ON   PERMANENT   ORGANIZATION. 

MR.  HOVEY  E.  SLAYTON,  of  New  Hampshire. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  wish 
to  submit  a  report  from  the  Committee  on  Permanent  Organization. 

The  TEMPORARY  CHAIRMAN. — For  the  consideration  of  this  report, 
the  Chair  will  ask  the  Hon.  Marlin  Edgar  Olmsted,  of  Pennsylvania,  one 
of  the  parliamentary  advisers  for  the  Chair  provided  under  the  rules,  to 
take  the  chair. 

The  PRESIDING  OFFICER  (MR.  M.  E.  OLMSTED,  of  Pennsylvania,  in 
the  chair). — The  report  will  be  read. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows: 

"The  undersigned,  your  Committee  on  Permanent  Organization,  beg 
leave  to  submit  the  following  report: 


332  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 

"We  recommend  that  the  several  officers  composing  your  temporary 
organization  be  chosen  as  the  permanent  officers  of  this  Convention. 
"Respectfully  submitted, 

"H.  E.  SLAYTON,  Chairman, 
"OscAR  H.  MONTGOMERY,  Secretary." 

The  PRESIDING  OFFICER. — The  question  is  on  agreeing  to  the  report 
of  the  Committee  on  Permanent  Organization. 

The  report  was  agreed  to. 

The  PRESIDING  OFFICER. — I  return  the  gavel  to  Hon.  Elihu  Root,  of 
New  York,  whom  I  have  the  honor  and  the  pleasure  to  present  as  your 
Permanent  Chairman.  (Applause.) 

Mr.  Root  assumed  the  chair  amidst  a  great  demonstration. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN  (MR.  ELIHU  ROOT,  of  New  York). — 
I  thank  you,  my  friends,  from  the  bottom  of  my  heart.  The  first  act 
that  I  shall  do  as  Permanent  Chairman  of  this  Convention  is  to  ask  your 
unanimous  consent  that  the  delegate  from  the  State  of  Kansas,  our  Re- 
publican brother,  Henry  J.  Allen,  have  permission  to  make  a  statement  to 
the  Convention.  Is  there  objection?  The  Chair  hears  none,  and  consent 
is  given. 

SPEECH  OF  HENRY  J.  ALLEN,  OF  KANSAS. 

MR.  HENRY  J.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas. — Mr.  Chairman,  ladies  and  gentle- 
men, and  fellow  citizens :  In  a  Convention  where  the  minority  report 
always  sounds  louder  than  the  majority  report,  it  is  a  great  thing  to  have 
the  unanimous  consent  of  the  Chairman.  (Applause.) 

This  statement  I  am  going  to  make  was  due  on  the  program  at  the 
conclusion  of  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  and  it  was 
the  arrangement  between  the  Chairman  and  myself  that  I  should  be  rec- 
ognized at  that  time.  I  merely  make  this  explanation  because  in  th$ 
subject  of  my  remarks  I  am  going  back  to  the  report  of  the  Committee 
on  Credentials,  and  I  shall  covenant  with  you  in  respect  to  this  matter, 
that  if  you  will  give  me  ten  minutes  of  quiet  attention  I  will  promise  to 
give  you  no  more  trouble  in  the  Convention,  if  I  ever  did  give  you  any 
trouble.  If  you  will  be  kind  enough  to  be  quiet  while  I  present  the 
attitude  of  the  progressives  of  this  Convention,  then  I  pledge  you  that 
no  effort  will  be  made  during  the  remainder  of  this  Convention  to  put 
any  sand  in  the  gasolene  or  to  do  any  mischief  whatever  to  your  spark- 
plug. (Laughter.)  You  can,  after  I  have  concluded  the  statement,  go 
as  far  as  you  like. 

The  first  thing  that  I  desire  permission  to  read  to  you  is  a  statement 
which  has  just  been  placed  in  my  hand  from  the  Honorable  Theodora 
Roosevelt.  (Applause.) 

Now.  gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  I  suggest  that  when  I  read  Mr. 
Roosevelt's  statement,  and  proceed  to  my  comment  thereon,  you  remain 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  333 

quiet.  I  make  this  suggestion  because  this  statement  of  Mr.  Roosevelt's 
and  any  comment  I  may  have  to  make  upon  the  same,  are  not  for  the 
purpose  of  creating  a  demonstration  in  this  Convention.  We  are  merely 
presenting  the  case  of  the  progressive  Republicans  and  interpreting  our 
future  action  in  this  Convention.  Mr.  Roosevelt  said — and  I  will  not 
read  his  whole  statement,  because  the  delegates  have  it  in  their  hands, 
or  most  of  them  have — says  among  other  things : 

"The  Convention  has  now  declined  to  purge  the  roll  of  the  fraudulent 
delegates  placed  thereon  by  the  defunct  National  Committee,  and  the 
majority  which  thus  indorsed  fraud  was  made  a  majority  only  because 
it  included  the  fraudulent  delegates  themselves,  who  all  sat  as  judges  on 
one  another's  cases.  If  these  fraudulent  votes  had  not  thus  been  cast 
and  counted,  the  Convention  would  have  been  purged  of  their  presence. 
This  action  makes  the  Convention  in  no  proper  sense  any  longer  a  Re- 
publican Convention  representing  the  real  Republican  party.  Therefore, 
I  hope  the  men  elected  as  Roosevelt  delegates  will  now  decline  to  vote  on 
any  matter  before  the  Convention.  I  do  not  release  any  delegate  from 
his  honorable  obligation  to  vote  for  me  if  he  votes  at  all,  but  under  the 
actual  conditions  I  hope  that  he  will  not  vote  at  all." 

MR.  JAMES  W.  WADSWORTH,  JR.,  of  New  York. — Read  the  rest  of  it. 

MR.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas. — I  will  read  it  if  anybody  wishes  to  have  it 
read. 

"The  Convention  as  now  composed  has  no  claim  to  represent  the 
voters  of  the  Republican  party.  It  represents  nothing  but  successful 
fraud  in  overriding  the  will  of  the  rank  and  file  of  the  party.  Any  man 
nominated  by  the  Convention  as  now  constituted  would  be  merely  the 
beneficiary  of  this  successful  fraud ;  it  would  be  deeply  discreditable  to 
any  man  to  accept  the  Convention's  nomination  under  these  circum- 
stances ;  and  any  man  thus  accepting  it  would  have  no  claim  to  thd 
support  of  any  Republican  on  party  grounds,  and  would  have  forfeited 
the  right  to  ask  the  support  of  any  honest  man  of  any  party  on  moral 
grounds." 

A  DELEGATE. — If  a  man  does  not  know  when  he  is  dead,  his  friends 
ought  to  know. 

(At  this  point  there  was  disorder  in  the  hall.) 

MR.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas. — I  am  going  on,  and  I  will  not  go  on  very 
long  if  you  will  just  keep  quiet.  What  I  have  to  say,  touching  this,  my 
friends,  represents  the  majority  of  the  Roosevelt  voters.  I  dare  say  it 
represents  the  sentiment  of  all  the  Roosevelt  delegates.  (Cries  of  "No, 
no!"  "Sit  down!")  I  shall  have  only  a  few  words  to  say. 

We  have  reached  a  point  where  the  Roosevelt  delegates  feel  that 
they  can  no  longer  share  in  the  responsibility  for  the  acts  of  the  Conven- 
tion. (Cries  of  "That  is  good!")  We  have  contested  with  you  until  we 
have  exhausted  every  parliamentary  privilege  in  an  effort  to  have  placed 


334  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

upon  the  roll  the  names  of  men  legally  elected.  When,  by  using  the 
votes  of  the  delegates  whose  right  to  sit  in  this  Convention  had  been 
challenged,  you  took  a  position  which  placed  the  power  of  a  political 
committee  above  the  authority  of  77,000  majority,  elected  in  a  legal 
primary  in  California,  we  decided  that  your  steam  roller  had  exceeded 
the  speed  limit.  Since  then  we  have  asked  for  no  roll  call.  You  have 
now  completed  the  seating  of  all  contested  delegates,  using  the  votes  of 
the  contested  delegates  to  accomplish  your  purpose.  We  cannot,  in  jus- 
tice to  ourselves,  share  the  responsibility  of  a  convention  which  has  said 
to  Ohio,  the  home  of  President  Taft,  that  a  majority  of  47,000  voters, 
obtained  in  a  legal  primary  election,  must  stand  aside  for  the  political 
dictum  of  a  National  Committeeman,  discarded  by  that  same  majority. 

A  DELEGATE. — What  about  New  York? 

MR.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas. — I  will  answer  that  now.  All  I  know  about 
New  York  is  what  I  read  in  the  New  York  World,  and  it  says  that  the 
process  of  selecting  your  delegates  was  such  that  it  made  Tammany  gasp 
with  amazement;  and  the  World  is  the  chief  Roosevelt  hater  in  New 
York. 

We  cannot  become  parties  with  you  in  a  declaration  to  Pennsylvania 
that  a  defeated  political  committeeman,  sitting  in  an  obscure  room  of 
this  building,  can  nullify  the  130,000  majority  by  which  Pennsylvania 
gave  expression  to  her  wishes.  (Applause.)  We  will  not  put  ourselves 
in  a  position  to  be  bound  by  any  act  in  which  you  say  to  the  majority 
which  rejected  Mr.  Taft  in  New  Jersey,  to  the  majority  which  rejected 
him  in  Wisconsin,  to  the  majority  which  rejected  him  in  Minnesota,  to 
the  majority  which  rejected  him  in  Maine,  to  the  majority  which  re- 
jected him  in  Maryland,  to  the  majority  in  South  Dakota,  to  the  majority 
in  North  Dakota,  which  gave  him  only  1,500  votes  out  of  59,000,  to  the 
majorities  which  rejected  him  in  Nebraska,  in  Oregon,  Kansas,  OUlahima, 
West  Virginia  and  North  Carolina,  that  all  these  majorities  added  to- 
gether went  down  under  the  mere  rulings  of  a  political  committee. 

(Cries  of  "Get  out!"     "Sit  down!") 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN  rapped  for  order. 

MR.  FERNANDO  W.  HARTFORD,  of  New  Hampshire. — Mr.  Chairman,  I 
move  that  the  gentleman  have  leave  to  withdraw  him. 

MR.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas. — We  will  not  join  you  in  saying  to  the  home 
State  of  Abraham  Lincoln  that  the  150,000  majority  with  which  you 
defeated  Mr.  Taft  and  his  managers  in  Illinois  was  overruled  by  those 
very  managers  with  the  consent  of  those  who  have  arrogated  powers 
never  intended  to  be  theirs. 

Mr.  Payne  yesterday  upon  this  platform  sought  to  question  the 
leadership  in  some  of  these  great  Republican  States.  Until  he  can  show 
a  better  record  than  is  shown  by  the  results  of  his  type  of  conservative 
leadership  he  is  estopped  from  criticism.  When  Theodore  Roosevelt 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  335 

left  the  White  House  four  years  ago,  he  left  you  an  overwhelming  ma- 
jority in  both  branches  of  Congress,  he  left  you  an  overwhelming  major- 
ity in  all  the  great  Republican  States.  (At  this  point  there  was  great 
confusion  and  disorder  in  the  chamber.) 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  police  will  eject  from  the  hall 
the  man  who  is  continually  shouting,  or  he  will  keep  still.  Let  him  stay 
if  he  keeps  quiet. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  I  hope  it  will  be  understood  by  this 
Convention  that  the  friends  of  Mr.  Taft  and  of  all  other  candidates  are 
to  pay  the  same  respect  to  representatives  of  Mr.  Roosevelt  that  the 
representatives  of  Mr.  Roosevelt  in  the  Convention  have  paid  to  speakers 
upon  the  other  side.  (Cries  of  "Good!") 

MR.  ALLEN,  of  Kansas. — He  left  you  a  record  upon  which  you  could 
elect  Mr.  Taft.  He  left  you  a  progressive  program  to  carry  forward. 
That  program  was  buried  beneath  an  avalanche  of  words  at  Winona,  and 
eighteen  Republican  governors  were  buried  beneath  an  avalanche  of 
votes,  which  rebuked  recreancy  to  party  pledges. 

A  big  majority  in  the  lower  House  gave  way  to  Democrats,  and  in 
the  Senate  was  reduced  to  a  mere  majority.  So  much  for  your  conser- 
vative leadership,  Mr.  Payne.  We  will  not  participate  with  you  in  com- 
pleting the  scuttling  of  the  ship.  We  will  not  say  to  the  young  men  of 
the  nation  who  are  reading  political  history  with  their  patriotism  and 
longing  to  catch  step  with  the  party  of  their  fathers,  that  we  have 
nothing  better  to  offer  them  at  this  hour  than  this  new  declaration  of 
human  rights  that  a  discarded  political  committee,  as  its  last  act,  holds 
greater  power  than  a  majority  of  over  two  million  Republican  voters. 

We  do  not  bolt.  We  merely  insist  that  you,  not  we,  are  making  the 
record.  And  we  refuse  to  be  bound  by  it.  We  have  pleaded  with  you 
ten  days.  We  have  fought  with  you  five  days  for  a  square  deal.  We 
fight  no  more,  we  plead  no  longer.  We  shall  sit  in  protest,  and  the  people 
who  sent  us  here  shall  judge  us. 

Gentlemen,  you  accuse  us  of  being  radical.  Let  me  tell  you  that  no 
radical  in  the  ranks  of  radicalism  ever  did  so  radical  a  thing  as  to  come 
to  a  National  Convention  of  the  great  Republican  party  and  secure 
through  fraud  the  nomination  of  a  man  whom  they  knew  could  not  b« 
elected.  (Applause.) 

REPORT    OF   COMMITTEE    ON    RULES. 

MR.  CLARENCE  D.  CLARK,  of  Wyoming. — I  am  directed  by  the  Com- 
mittee on  Rules  and  Order  of  Business  to  present  this  report. 

The  report  was  read,  as  follows : 

The  Committee  on  Rules  and  Order  of  Business  has  performed  the 
duties  assigned  it,  and  respectfully  reports  the  following  rules: 


336  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE 

I.  Hereafter  the  Convention  shall  consist  of  a  number  of  delegates 
from  each  State  equal  to  double  the  number  of  each  Senator  and  Repre- 
sentative in  Congress;  six  delegates  from  the  Territory  of  Hawaii;  two 
from  Alaska,  two  from  the  District  of  Columbia,  two  from  Porto  Rico, 
and  two  from  the  Philippine  Islands. 

II.  The  rules  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  Sixtieth  Con- 
gress shall  be  the  rules  of  the  Convention,  so  far  as  they  are  applicable 
and  not  inconsistent  with  the  following  rules. 

III.  When  the  previous  question  shall  be  demanded  by  a  majority 
of  the  delegates  from  any  State,  and  the  demand  is  seconded  by  two  or 
more  States,  and  the  call  is  sustained  by  a  majority  of  the  Convention, 
the  question  shall  then  be  proceeded  with  and  disposed  of  according  to 
the  rules  of  the  House  of  Representatives  in  similar  cases. 

IV.  A   motion   to   suspend   the   rules   shall   be    in   order   only   when 
made  by  authority  of  a  majority  of  the  delegates   from   any   State,  and 
seconded  by  a  majority  of  the  delegates   from  not  less  than  two  other 
States. 

V.  It  shall  be  in  order  to  lay  on  the  table  a  proposed  amendment  to 
a  pending  measure,  and  such  motion,  if  adopted,  shall  not  carry  with  it, 
or  prejudice  such  measure. 

VI.  Upon    all    subjects   before    the    Convention    the    States    shall   be 
called  in  alphabetical  order  and  next  the  Territory  of  Hawaii,  Alaska,  the 
District  of  Columbia,  Porto  Rico,   and  the  Philippine  Islands. 

VII.  The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  shall  be  disposed 
of   before   the   report   of    the   Committee   on   Resolutions   is   acted   upon, 
and  the   report   of   the   Committee   on   Resolutions    shall   be   disposed  of 
before   the   Convention   proceeds   to   the  nomination   of   a   candidate   for 
President  and  Vice-President. 

VIII.  When   a   majority  of  the   delegates   of   any  two    States   shall 
demand  that  a  vote  be  recorded,  the  same  shall  be  taken  by  States,  the 
Territory  of  Hawaii,  Alaska,  the  District  of  Columbia,  Porto  Rico,  and 
the   Philippine   Islands,  the  Secretary  calling  the  roll  of  the  States  and 
the  Territory  of  Hawaii,  Alaska,  the  District  of  Columbia,   Porto  Rico, 
and  the  Philippine  Islands  in  the  order  heretofore  established. 

IX.  In    making   the    nomination    for    President    and   Vice-President, 
in  no  case  shall  the  calling  of  the  roll  be  dispensed  with.     When  it  ap- 
pears at  the  close  of  any  roll  call  that  any  candidate  has  received  the 
majority  of  votes  to  which  the  Convention  is  entitled,  the  President  of 
the  Convention  shall  announce  the  question  to  be:     "Shall  the  nomination 
of  the  candidate  be  made  unanimous?"     If  no  candidate  shall  have  re- 
ceived such  majority,  the  Chair  shall  direct  the  vote  to  be  taken  again, 
which  shall  be  repeated  until  some  candidate  shall  have  received  a  ma- 
jority of  the  votes;  and  when  any  State  has  announced  its  vote  it  shall 
so  stand,  unless  in  case  of  numerical  error. 


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X.  In  the  record  of  the  votes,  the  vote  of  each  State,  the  Territory 
of  Hawaii,  Alaska,  the  District  of  Columbia,  Porto  Rico  and  the  Philip- 
pine Islands  shall  be  announced  by  the  Chairman,  and  in  case  the  vote  of 
any   State,  the  Territory  of   Hawaii,   Alaska,  the   District  of    Columbia, 
Porto  Rico,  or  th,e  Philippine  Islands  shall  be  divided,  the  Chairman  shall 
announce  the  number  of  votes  for  any  candidate,  or  for  or  against  any 
proposition,  but  if  exception  is  taken  by  any  delegate  to  the  correctness 
of  such  announcement  by  the  chairman  of  his  delegation,  the  President  of 
the  Convention  shall  direct  the  roll  of  members  of  such  delegation  to  be 
called,  and  the  result  shall  be  recorded  in  accordance  with  the  vote  indi- 
vidually given. 

XI.  No  member  shall  speak  more  than  once  upon  the  same  question, 
nor  longer  than  five  minutes,  unless  by  leave  of  the  Convention,  except 
in  the  presentation  of  the  names  of  candidates. 

XII.  There   shall  be   a   Republican   National   Committee,   consisting 
of  one  member  from  each  State,  one  member  each  from  the  Territory  of 
Hawaii  and  the  District  of  Columbia,  and  one  member  from  each  of  the 
territorial   possessions,   to   wit :   the   Philippine   Islands,   Porto   Rico   and 
Alaska. 

The  roll  of  States  shall  be  called,  and  the  delegation  from  each  State, 
Territory,  District  and  Territorial  possession  shall  name  through  its 
chairman  a  person  who  shall  act  as  member  of  said  committee.  When 
State  laws  provide  for  the  election  of  a  National  Committeeman,  such 
election  shall  be  considered  a  nomination  to  be  carried  into  effect  by  the 
delegation  from  said  State. 

The  term  of  service  of  members  of  the  National  Committee  shall 
begin  within  ten  days  after  the  adjournment  of  the  National  Pepiib- 
lican  Convention  called  for  the  purpose  of  nominating  candidates  re- 
spectively for  President  and  Vice-President,  and  upon  the  organization 
of  the  new  committee,  and  shall  terminate  within  ten  days  after  the 
adjournment  of  the  National  Republican  Convention  which  it  calls,  and 
upon  the  organization  of  the  new  committee. 

Vacancies  created  by  death  or  resignation  shall  be  filled  by  nomina- 
tion of  the  State  Republican  Central  Committee  in  and  for  the  State  in 
which  the  vacancy  occurs.  The  National  Republican  Committee  shall, 
however,  have  power  to  declare  vacant  the  seat  of  any  member  who 
refuses  to  support  the  nominees  of  the  Convention  which  elected  such 
National  Republican  Committee  and  to  fill  such  vacancies. 

The  officers  of  the  National  Republican  Committee  shall  consist  of 
a  chairman,  vice-chairman,  treasurer,  secretary  and  such  other  officers  as 
the  Committee  may  deem  necessary ;  who  shall  be  elected  at  a  meeting 
of  the  Republican  National  Committee  to  be  held  within  ten  days  after 
the  adjournment  of  the  National  Convention  at  its  meeting  for  the  nom- 
ination of  candidates.  All  other  meetings  shall  be  held  upon  the  call 
of  the  chairman  or  a  majority  of  the  membership. 


338  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

The  general  rules  of  parliamentary  law  shall  be  followed  at  all 
meetings  of  the  committee. 

If  any  member  of  the  committee  is  unable  to  attend  any  meeting  of 
the  committee,  he  may  delegate  another  person  by  written  proxy  to 
represent  him  at  such  meeting. 

The  chairman  shall  appoint  an  executive  committee  composed  of 
eight  members  of  the  National  Committee,  in  addition  to  which  the 
Chairman,  Vice-Chairman,  Treasurer  and  Secretary  shall  be  ex-officio 
members. 

The  Chairman  may  appoint,  in  addition  to  the  executive  committee, 
other  committees  of  such  members,  composed,  in  whole  or  in  part,  of 
persons  not  members  of  the  National  Committee,  as  he  may  deem  advis- 
able. The  executive  committee  shall  fill  any  vacancy  that  may  occur  in 
the  offices  of  the  National  Committee  by  a  majority  vote  of  the  executive 
committee  to  be  ratified  at  the  next  meeting  of  the  full  committee.  In 
case  of  a  vacancy  by  death  or  resignation  of  any  official  of  the  commit- 
tee, the  executive  committee  shall  be  called  together  by  the  secretary  or 
some  official  of  the  committee,  within  sixty  days  from  the  time  the 
vacancy  occurs,  for  the  purpose  of  filling  such  vacancy. 

The  Republican  National  Committee  shall  issue  the  call  for  the 
meeting  of  the  National  Convention  sixty  days,  at  least,  before  the  time 
fixed  for  said  meeting,  and  delegates  to  the  National  Convention  shall 
be  chosen  in  such  manner  as  the  National  Committee  shall  provide.  An 
Alternate  delegate  for  each  delegate  to  the  National  Convention,  to  act 
in  case  of  the  absence  of  the  delegate,  shall  be  elected  in  the  same  man- 
ner and  at  the  same  time  as  the  delegate  is  elected.  Delegates-at-large 
for  each  State,  and  their  alternates,  shall  be  elected  by  State  conventions 
in  their  respective  States.  Twenty  days  before  the  day  set  for  the  meet- 
ing of  the  National  Convention,  the  credentials  for  each  delegate  and 
alternate  shall  be  forwarded  to  the  Secretary  of  the  National  Committee 
for  use  in  making  up  the  temporary  roll  of  the  Convention.  Notices  of 
contests  shall  be  forwarded  in  the  same  manner  and  within  the  same 
limits  of  time.  And  when  the  Convention  shall  have  assembled,  and  the 
Committee  on  Credentials  shall  have  been  appointed,  the  Secretary  of 
the  National  Committee  shall  deliver  to  the  said  Committee  on  Creden- 
tials all  credentials  and  other  papers  forwarded  under  this  rule. 

XIII.  All  resolutions  relating  to  the  platform  shall  be  referred  to 
the  Committee  on  Resolutions  without  debate. 

XIV.  No   person    except   members    of   the    several    delegations    and 
officers  of  the  Convention  shall  be  admitted  to  that  section  of  the  hall 
apportioned  to  delegates. 

XV.  The  Convention  shall  proceed  in  the  following  order  of  busi- 
ness: 


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1.  Report  of  the  Committee  on   Credentials. 

2.  Report  of  the  Committee  on  Permanent  Organization. 

3.  Report  of  Committee  on  Rules  and  Order  of  Business. 

4.  Report  of  the  Committee  on  Resolutions. 

5.  Naming  members  of  the  National  Committee. 

6.  Presentation  of  names  of  candidates   for  President. 

7.  Balloting. 

8.  Presentation  of   names  of    candidates   for  Vice-President. 

9.  Balloting. 

10.  Call  of  the  roll  of  States,  the  Territory  of  Hawaii,  Alaska,  the 
District  of  Columbia,  Porto  Rico,  and  the  Philippine  Islands,  for  names 
of  delegates  to  serve  respectively  on  committees,  to  notify  the  nominees 
for  President  and  Vice-President  of  their  selection    for  said  offices. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

C.   D.   CLARK    (Wyoming),  Chairman. 

EZRA  P.  PRENTICE  (New  York),  Secretary. 

Chicago,  June  20th,  191:3. 

MR.  CLARK,  of  Wyoming. — I  move  the  adoption  of  the  report. 

MR.  W.  H.  COLEMAN.  of  Pennsylvania. — On  behalf  of  the  minority 
members  of  the  Committee  on  Rules,  I  am  directed  to  present  their 
views  as  a  substitute  for  the  report  presented  by  the  chairman  of  the 
committee,  and  I  move  their  adoption. 

The  Secretary  read  the  views  of  the  minority,  as  follows : 

A  minority  of  the  Committee  on  Rules  and  Order  of  Business  has 
attended  to  the  duties  assigned  to  it,  and  respectfully  reports  the  fol- 
lowing rules : 

I.  Resolved,  That  hereafter  representation  in  the  Republican  Na- 
tional Convention  shall  be  as  follows : 

One  delegate  from  each  Congressional  District  within  the  various 
States  of  the  Union,  and  one  additional  delegate  from  each  of  said  Con- 
gressional Districts  for  every  10,000  votes  or  majority  fraction  thereof, 
cast  at  the  last  preceding  Presidential  election  for  Republican  Elector 
receiving  the  largest  vote,  and  two  delegates  each  from  the  District  of 
Columbia,  Alaska,  Hawaii,  Porto  Rico  and  the  Philippines. 

11.  The  rules  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  Sixtieth  Con- 
gress shall  be  the  rules  of  the  Convention,  so  far  as  they  are  applicable 
and  not  inconsistent  with  the  following  rules. 

III.  When  the  previous  question  shall  be  demanded  by  a  majority 
of  the  delegates  from  any  State,  and  the  demand  is  seconded  by  two  or 
more  States,  and  the  call  is  sustained  by  a  majority  of  the  Convention, 
the  question  shall  then  be  proceeded  with  and  disposed  of  according  to 
the  rules  of  the  House  of  Representatives  in  similar  cases. 

IV.  A   motion   to   suspend  the   rules   shall  be  in  order   only   when 
made  by  authority  of   a  majority  of  the  delegates   from  any   State,  and 


340  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

seconded  by  a  majority  of  the   delegates  from  not  less  than  two  other 
states. 

V.  It  shall  be  in  order  to  lay  on  the  table  a  proposed  amendment 
to  a  pending  measure,  and  such  motion,  if  adopted,  shall  not  carry  with 
it  or  prejudice  such  measure. 

VI.  Upon   all   subjects   before  the   Convention  the   States   shall   be 
called  in  alphabetical  order  and  next  the  Territory  of  Hawaii,  Alaska, 
the   District  of  Columbia,   Porto  Rico,   and  the   Philippine   Islands. 

VII.  The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  shall  be  disposed 
of  before  the   report  of  the  Committee  on   Resolutions   is   acted  upon, 
and  the  report  of  the   Committee  on   Resolutions   shall  be   disposed  of 
before   the    Convention  proceeds  to  the  nomination   of   a   candidate    for 
President,   and  for  Vice-President. 

VIII.  When  a  majority   of  the  delegates  of  any  two   States  shall 
demand  that  a  vote  be  recorded,  the  same  shall  be  taken  by  States,  Ter- 
ritories, Alaska,  the  District  of  Columbia,  Porto  Rico  and  the  Philippine 
Islands,  in  the  order  named. 

IX.  In  making  the  nominations   for   President  and   Vice-President, 
when  vote  is  being  taken  in  no  case  shall  the  calling  of  the  roll  be  dis- 
pensed with.     When  it  appears  at  the  close  of  any  roll  call  that  any  can- 
didate  has   received  the   majority  of   votes  to   which  the   Convention   is 
entitled,  the  President  of  the  Convention  shall  announce  the  result.     If 
no  candidate  shall  have  received  such  a  majority,  the  Chair  shall  direct 
the  vote  to  be  taken  again,  which  shall  be  repeated  until  some  candidate 
shall  have  received  a  majority  of  the  votes.     When  any  State  has  an- 
nounced its  votes,  it  shall  stand  unless  in  case  of  numerical  error. 

X.  In  the  record  of  the  votes,  the  vote  of  each  State  and  Territory, 
Alaska,  the  District  of  Columbia,  Porto  Rico,  and  the  Philippine  Islands 
shall  be  announced  by  the  Chairman,  and  in  case  the  vote  of  any  State, 
Territory  of  Hawaii,  Alaska,  the   District  of  Columbia,   Porto  Rico  or 
the  Philippine  Islands  shall  be  divided,  the  Chairman  shall  announce  the 
number  of  votes  for  any  candidate,  or  for  or  against  any  proposition,  but 
if  exception  is  taken  by  any  delegate  to  the  correctness  of  such  announce- 
ment by  the  Chairman  of  his  delegation,  the  President  of  the  Convention 
shall  direct  a  roll  of  the  members  of   such  delegation  to  be  called  and 
the    result   shall    be   recorded    in    accordance    with   the   vote    individually 
given. 

XL  No  member  shall  speak  more  than  once  upon  the  same  question, 
nor  longer  than  ten  minutes,  unless  by  leave  of  the  Convention,  except 
in  the  presentation  of  names  of  candidates. 

XII.  A  Republican  National  Committee  shall  be  appointed,  to  con- 
sist of  one  member  from  each  State  and  the  District  of  Columbia.  The 
roll  shall  be  called  and  the  delegation  from  each  State  and  the  District 
of  Columbia  shall  name,  through  its  chairman,  a  person  who  shall  act  as 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  341 

a  member  of  said  Committee.  Such  Committee  shall  issue  the  call  for 
the  meeting  of  the  National  Convention  at  least  sixty  days  before  the 
time  fixed  for  said  meeting,  and  the  delegates  to  the  National  Convention 
shall  be  chosen  in  such  manner  as  the  National  Committee  shall  pro- 
vide. An  alternate  delegate  for  each  delegate  to  the  National  Conven- 
tion, to  act  in  case  of  the  absence  of  the  delegate,  shall  be  elected  in  the 
same  manner  and  at  the  same  time  as  the  delegate  is  elected.  Delegates- 
at-large  for  each  State,  and  their  alternates,  shall  be  elected  by  State 
Conventions  in  their  respective  States,  except  that  in  any  State  which  has 
by  law  provided  for  the  selection  of  all  the  delegates  to  the  National 
Convention,  all  the  delegates  to  such  Convention  shall  be  chosen  in  ac- 
cordance with  such  laws.  Twenty  days  before  the  day  set  for  the  meet- 
ing of  the  National  Convention,  the  credentials  of  each  delegate  and 
alternate  shall  be  forwarded  to  the  Secretary  of  the  National  Committee 
for  use  in  making  up  the  temporary  roll  of  the  Convention,  which  roll, 
when  prepared,  is  advisory  and  not  the  official  roll.  Notices  of  contests 
shall  be  forwarded  in  the  same  manner  and  within  the  same  limit  of 
time,  and  any  delegate  or  alternate  whose  seat  has  been  contested  in 
good  faith  shall  stand  aside  and  not  be  permitted  to  vote  on  his  case,  or 
other  contests,  until  his  credentials  shall  have  been  passed  upon  by  the 
Convention  when  assembled.  And  when  the  Convention  shall  have  as- 
sembled, and  the  Committee  on  Credentials  shall  have  been  appointed, 
the  Secretary  of  the  National  Committee  shall  deliver  to  the  said  Com- 
mittee on  Credentials  all  credentials  and  other  papers  forwarded  under 
this  rule. 

XIII.  The   Republican   National   Committee   is   authorized   and   em- 
powered to  select  an  Executive  Committee,  to  consist  of  nine  members, 
who  may  or  may  not  be  members  of  the  National  Committee. 

XIV.  All  resolutions  relating  to  the  platform  shall  be  referred  to 
the  Committee  on  Resolutions  without  debate. 

XV.  No   person,    except   members    of   the    several    delegations   and 
officers  of  the  Convention,  shall  be  admitted  to  that  section  of  the  hall 
apportioned  to  delegates. 

XVI.  The  Convention  shall  proceed  in  the  following  order  of  busi- 
ness: 

1.  Report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials. 

2.  Report  of  the  Committee  on  Permanent  Organization. 

3.  Report  of  Committee  on  Rules  and  Order  of  Business. 

4.  Report  of  the  Committee  on  Resolutions. 

5.  Naming  members  of  the  National  Committee. 

6.  Presentation  of  names  of  candidates  for  President. 

7.  Balloting. 

8.  Presentation  of  names  of  candidates  for  Vice-President. 

9.  Balloting. 

10.    Call  of  the  roll  of  States,  Territories,  Alaska,  the  District  of  Co- 


342  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

lumbia,  Porto  Rico,  and  the  Philippine  Islands,  for  names  of  delegates 
to  serve  respectively  on  committees,  to  notify  the  nominees  for  President 
and  Vice-President  of  their  selection  for  said  office. 

VV.  H.  COLEMAN,  Pennsylvania 

JOHN  L.  HAMILTON,  Illinois 

S.    H.    EAGLE,   Ohio 

C.    L.    DOTSON,    South    Dakota 

H.   P.    GARDNER,   Maine 

JAMES  G.  BLAUVELT,  New  Jersey 

CHARLES  E.  RENDLEN,  Missouri 

W.  S.  O'B.  ROBINSON,  North  Carolina 

O.  J.   LARSON,  Minnesota 

J.  S.  GEORGE,  Kansas 

C.  A.  LUCE,  Nebraska 

WM.   SEYMOUR  EDWARDS,  W.    Va. 
L.   S.   SKELTON,   Oklahoma 
GALEN  L.  TAIT,  Maryland 
EMIL  SCOW,  North  Dakota 

D.  W.  DAVIS,  Idaho 

MR.  JAMES  E.  WATSON,  of  Indiana. — I  move  to  lay  on  the  table  the 
report  of  the  Committee  on  Rules  and  Order  of  Business,  together  with 
the  substitute. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  RESOLUTIONS. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Res- 
olutions is  next  in  order.  The  Chair  recognizes  the  Senator  from  In- 
diana (Mr.  Fairbanks). 

MR.  CHARLES  W.  FAIRBANKS,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentle- 
men of  the  Convention,  I  have  the  honor  to  submit  to  you  the  report 
of  the  deliberations  of  the  Committee  on  Resolutions. 

It  may  not  be  inappropriate  for  me  to  say  that  the  Committee  closed 
the  door  to  no  one,  and  heard  with  patience  all  who  desired  to  be  heard 
before  it.  (Applause.) 

I  am  glad  to  say  further  that  the  proceedings  of  the  Committee  were 
characterized  by  earnestness,  and  by  a  spirit  of  harmony  which  we  could 
but  hope  would  be  prophetic  of  the  crowning  act  of  this  supreme  council 
uf  the  Republican  party.  (Applause.) 

Mr.  Fairbanks  then  read  the  platform,  as  follows : 

THE   PLATFORM. 

The  Republican  party,  assembled  by  its  representatives  in  National 
Convention,  declares  its  unchanging  faith  in  government  of  the  people,  by 
the  people,  for  the  people.  We  renew  our  allegiance  to  the  principles  of 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  343 

the  Republican  party  and  our  devotion  to  the  cause  of  Republican  institu- 
tions established  by  the  fathers. 

It  is  appropriate  that  we  should  now  recall  with  a  sense  of  venera- 
tion and  gratitude  the  name  of  our  first  great  leader,  who  was  nominated 
in  this  city,  and  whose  lofty  principles  and  superb  devotion  to  his  country 
are  an  inspiration  to  the  party  he  honored — Abraham  Lincoln.  In  the 
present  state  of  public  affairs  we  should  be  inspired  by  his  broad  states- 
manship and  by  his  tolerant  spirit  toward  men. 

The  Republican  party  looks  back  upon  its  record  with  pride  and 
satisfaction,  and  forward  to  its  new  responsibilities  with  hope  and  confi- 
dence. Its  achievements  in  government  constitute  the  most  luminous 
pages  in  our  history.  Our  greatest  national  advance  has  been  made 
during  the  years  of  its  ascendancy  in  public  affairs.  It  has  been  genu- 
inely and  always  a  party  of  progress;  it  has  never  been  either  stationary 
or  reactionary.  It  has  gone  from  the  fulfillment  of  one  great  pledge  to 
the  fulfillment  of  another  in  response  to  the  public  need  and  to  the  popu- 
lar will. 

We  believe  in  our  self-controlled  representative  democracy  which  is 
a  government  of  laws,  not  of  men,  and  in  which  order  is  the  pre- 
requisite of  progress. 

The  principles  of  constitutional  government,  which  make  provision 
for  orderly  and  effective  expression  of  the  popular  will,  for  the  protec- 
tion of  civil  liberty  and  the  rights  of  men,  and  for  the  interpretation  of 
the  law  by  an  untrammeled  and  independent  judiciary,  have  proved  them- 
selves capable  of  sustaining  the  structure  of  a  government  which,  after 
more  than  a  century  of  development,  embraces  one  hundred  millions  of 
people,  scattered  over  a  wide  and  diverse  territory,  but  bound  by  com- 
mon purpose,  common  ideals  and  common  affection  to  the  Constitution 
of  the  United  States.  Under  the  Constitution  and  the  principles  asserted 
and  vitalized  by  it,  the  United  States  has  grown  to  be  one  of  the  great 
civilized  and  civilizing  powers  of  the  earth.  It  offers  a  home  and  an 
opportunity  to  the  ambitious  and  the  industrious  from  other  lands. 
Resting  upon  the  broad  basis  of  a  people's  confidence  and  a  people's 
support,  and  managed  by  the  people  themselves,  the  government  of  the 
United  States  will  meet  the  problems  of  the  future  as  satisfactorily  as 
it  has  solved  those  of  the  past. 

The  Republican  party  is  now,  as  always,  a  party  of  advanced  and 
constructive  statesmanship.  It  is  prepared  to  go  forward  with  the  solu- 
tion of  those  new  questions,  which  social,  economic  and  political  devel- 
opment have  brought  into  the  forefront  of  the  nation's  interest.  It  will 
strive,  not  only  in  the  nation  but  in  the  several  States,  to  enact  the  nec- 
essary legislation  to  safeguard  the  public  health ;  to  limit  effectively  the 
labor  of  women  and  children,  and  to  protect  wage-earners  engaged  in 
dangerous  occupations ;  to  enact  comprehensive  and  generous  workman's 


344  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

compensation  laws  in  place  of  the  present  wasteful  and  unjust  system  of 
employers'  liability;  and  in  all  possible  ways  to  satisfy  the  just  demand 
of  the  people  for  the  study  and  solution  of  the  complex  and  constantly 
changing  problems  of  social  welfare. 

In  dealing  with  these  questions,  it  is  important  that  the  rights  of 
every  individual  to  the  freest  possible  development  of  hs  iown  powers 
and  resources  and  to  the  control  of  his  own  justly  acquired  property,  so 
far  as  those  are  compatible  with  the  rights  of  others,  shall  not  be  inter- 
fered with  or  destroyed.  The  social  and  political  structure  of  the  United 
States  rests  upon  the  civil  liberty  of  the  individual ;  and  for  the  protec- 
tion of  that  liberty  the  people  have  wisely,  in  the  National  and  State 
Constitutions,  put  definite  limitations  upon  themselves  and  upon  their 
governmental  officers  and  agencies.  To  enforce  these  limitations,  to 
secure  the  orderly  and  coherent  exercise  of  governmental  powers,  and  to 
protect  the  rights  of  even  the  humblest  and  least  favored  individual  are 
the  function  of  independent  Courts  of  Justice. 

The  Republican  party  reaffirms  its  intention  to  uphold  at  all  times 
the  authority  and  integrity  of  the  Courts,  both  State  and  Federal,  and 
it  will  ever  insist  that  their  powers  to  enforce  their  process  and  to  pro- 
tect life,  liberty  and  property  shall  be  preserved  inviolate.  An  orderly 
method  is  provided  under  our  system  of  government  by  which  the  people 
may,  when  they  choose,  alter  or  amend  the  constitutional  provisions  which 
underlie  that  government.  Until  these  constitutional  provisions  are  so 
altered  or  amended,  in  orderly  fashion,  it  is  the  duty  of  the  courts  to 
see  to  it  that  when  challenged  they  are  enforced. 

That  the  Courts,  both  Federal  and  State,  may  bear  the  heavy  burden 
laid  upon  them  to  the  complete  satisfaction  of  public  opinion,  we  favor 
legislation  to  prevent  long  delays  and  the  tedious  and  costly  appeals 
which  have  so  often  amounted  to  a  denial  of  justice  in  civil  cases  and 
to  a  failure  to  protect  the  public  at  large  in  criminal  cases. 

Since  the  responsibility  of  the  Judiciary  is  so  great,  the  standards 
of  judicial  action  must  be  always  and  everywhere  above  suspicion  and 
reproach.  While  we  regard  the  recall  of  judges  as  unnecessary  and  un- 
wise, we  favor  such  action  as  may  be  necessary  to  simplify  the  process 
by  which  any  judge  who  is  found  to  be  derelict  in  his  duty  may  be  re- 
moved from  office. 

Together  with  peaceful  and  orderly  development  at  home,  the  Re- 
publican party  earnestly  favors  all  measures  for  the  establishment  and 
protection  of  the  peace  of  the  world  and  for  the  development  of  closer 
relations  between  the  various  nations  of  the  earth.  It  believes  most 
earnestly  in  the  peaceful  settlement  of  international  disputes  and  in  the 
reference  of  all  justiciable  controversies  between  nations  to  an  Inter- 
national Court  of  Justice. 


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MONOPOLY  AND  PRIVILEGE. 

The  Republican  party  is  opposed  to  special  privilege  and  to  monopoly. 
It  placed  upon  the  statute  book  the  interstate  commerce  act  of  1887,  and 
the  important  amendments  thereto,  and  the  anti-trust  act  of  1890,  and  it 
has  consistently  and  successfully  enforced  the  provisions  of  these  laws. 
It  will  take  no  backward  step  to  permit  the  re-establishment  in  any  de- 
gree of  conditions  which  were  intolerable. 

Experience  makes  it  plain  that  the  business  of  the  country  may  be 
carried  on  without  fear  or  without  disturbance  and  at  the  same  time 
without  resort  to  practices  which  are  abhorrent  to  the  common  sense  of 
justice.  The  Republican  party  favors  the  enactment  of  legislation  sup- 
plementary to  the  existing  anti-trust  act  which  will  define  as  criminal 
offences  those  specific  acts  that  uniformly  mark  attempts  to  restrain  and 
to  monopolize  trade,  to  the  end  that  those  who  honestly  intend  to  obey 
the  law  may  have  a  guide  for  their  action  and  that  those  who  aim  to> 
violate  the  law  may  the  more  surely  be  punished.  The  same  certainty 
should  be  given  to  the  law  prohibiting  combinations  and  monopolies  that 
characterizes  other  provisions  of  commercial  law;  in  order  that  no  part 
of  the  field  of  business  opportunity  may  be  restricted  by  monopoly  or 
combination,  that  business  success  honorably  achieved  may  not  be  con- 
verted into  crime,  and  that  the  right  of  every  man  to  acquire  commodi- 
ties, and  particularly  the  necessaries  of  life,  in  an  open  market  uninflu- 
enced by  the  manipulation  of  trust  or  combination  may  be  preserved. 

FEDERAL  TRADE  COMMISSION. 

In  the  enforcement  and  administration  of  Federal  Laws  governing 
interstate  commerce  and  enterprises  impressed  with  a  public  use  en- 
gaged therein,  there  is  much  that  may  be  committed  to  a  Federal  trade 
commission,  thus  placing  in  the  hands  of  an  administrative  board  many 
of  the  functions  now  necessarily  exercised  by  the  courts.  This  will 
promote  promptness  in  the  administration  of  the  law  and  avoid  delays 
and  technicalities  incident  to  court  procedure. 

THE    TARIFF. 

We  reaffirm  our  belief  in  a  protective  tariff.  The  Republican  tariff 
policy  has  been  of  the  greatest  benefit  to  the  country,  developing  our 
resources,  diversifying  our  industries,  and  protecting  our  workmen 
against  competition  with  cheaper  labor  abroad,  thus  establishing  for  our 
wage-earners  the  American  standard  of  living.  The  protective  tariff 
is  so  woven  into  the  fabric  of  our  industrial  and  agricultural  life  that  to 
substitute  for  it  a  tariff  for  revenue  only  would  destroy  many  industries 


346  OFFICIAL    PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

and  throw  millions  of  our  people  out  of  employment.  The  products  of 
the  farm  and  of  the  mine  should  receive  the  same  measure  of  protection 
as  other  products  of  American  labor. 

We  hold  that  the  import  duties  should  be  high  enough  while  yielding 
a  sufficient  revenue  to  protect  adequately  American  industries  and  wages. 
Some  of  the  existing  import  duties  are  too  high,  and  should  be  reduced. 
Readjustment  should  be  made  from  time  to  time  to  conform  to  changing 
conditions  and  to  reduce  excessive  rates,  but  without  injury  to  any  Amer- 
ican industry.  To  accomplish  this  correct  information  is  indispensable. 
This  information  can  best  be  obtained  by  an  expert  commission,  as  the 
large  volume  of  useful  facts  contained  in  the  recent  reports  of  the  Tariff 
Board  have  demonstrated. 

The  pronounced  feature  of  modern  industrial  life  is  its  enormous 
diversification.  To  apply  tariff  rates  justly  to  these  changing  conditions 
requires  closer  study  and  more  scientific  methods  than  ever  before.  The 
Republican  party  has  shown  by  its  creation  of  a  Tariff  Board  its  recog- 
nition of  this  situation,  and  its  determination  to  be  equal  to  it.  We  con- 
demn the  Democratic  party  for  its  failure  either  to  provide  funds  for 
the  continuance  of  this  board  or  to  make  some  other  provision  for  secur- 
ing the  information  requisite  for  intelligent  tariff  legislation.  We  protest 
against  the  Democratic  method  of  legislating  on  these  vitally  important 
subjects  without  careful  investigation. 

We  condemn  the  Democratic  tariff  bills  passed  by  the  House  of 
Representatives  of  the  Sixty-second  Congress  as  sectional,  as  injurious 
to  the  public  credit,  and  as  destructive  of  business  enterprise. 

COST  OF  LIVING. 

The  steadily  increasing  cost  of  living  has  become  a  matter  not  only 
of  national  but  of  worldwide  concern.  The  fact  that  it  is  not  due  to 
the  protective  tariff  system  is  evidenced  by  the  existence  of  similar  con- 
ditions in  countries  which  have  a  tariff  policy  different  from  our  own,  as 
well  as  by  the  fact  that  the  cost  of  living  has  increased  while  rates  of 
duty  have  remained  stationary  or  been  reduced. 

The  Republican  party  will  support  a  prompt  scientific  inquiry  into 
the  causes  which  are  operative,  both  in  the  United  States  and  elsewhere, 
to  increase  the  cost  of  living.  When  the  exact  facts  are  known,  it  will 
take  the  necessary  steps  to  remove  any  abuses  that  may  be  found  to  exist 
in  order  that  the  cost  of  the  food,  clothing  and  shelter  of  the  people 
may  in  no  way  be  unduly  or  artificially  increased. 

BANKING  AND  CURRENCY. 

The  Republican  party  has  always  stood  for  a  sound  currency  and 
for  safe  banking  methods.  It  is  responsible  for  the  resumption  of  specie 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  347 

payments,  and  for  the  establishment  of  the  gold  standard.  It  is  com- 
mitted to  the  progressive  development  of  our  banking  and  currency 
system.  Our  banking  arrangements  to-day  need  further  revision  to 
meet  the  requirements  of  current  conditions.  We  need  measures  which 
will  prevent  the  recurrence  of  money  panics  and  financial  disturbance* 
and  which  will  promote  the  prosperity  of  business  and  the  welfare  of 
labor  by  producing  constant  employment.  We  need  better  currency 
facilities  for  the  movement  of  crops  in  the  West  and  South.  We  need 
banking  arrangements  under  American  auspices  for  the  encouragement 
and  better  conduct  of  our  foreign  trade.  In  attaining  these  ends,  the 
independence  of  individual  banks,  whether  organized  under  national  or 
State  charters,  must  be  carefully  protected,  and  our  banking  and  cur- 
rency system  must  be  safeguarded  from  any  possibility  of  domination 
by  sectional,  financial,  or  political  interests. 

It  is  of  great  importance  to  the  social  and  economic  welfare  of  this 
country  that  its  farmers  have  facilities  for  borrowing  easily  and  cheaply 
the  money  they  need  to  increase  the  productivity  of  their  land.  It  is  as 
important  that  financial  machinery  be  provided  to  supply  the  demand  of 
farmers  for  credit  as  it  is  that  the  banking  and  currency  systems  be 
reformed  in  the  interest  of  general  business.  Therefore,  we  recom- 
mend and  urge  an  authoritative  investigation  of  agricultural  credit  so- 
cieties and  corporations  in  other  countries,  and  the  passage  of  State  and 
Federal  laws  for  the  establishment  and  capable  supervision  of  organi- 
zations having  for  their  purpose  the  loaning  of  funds  to  farmers. 

THE  CIVIL   SERVICE. 

We  reaffirm  our  adherence  to  the  principle  of  appointment  to  public 
office  based  on  proved  fitness,  and  tenure  during  good  behavior  and  effi- 
ciency. The  Republican  party  stands  committed  to  the  maintenance, 
extension  and  enforcement  of  the  Civil  Service  Law,  and  it  favors  the 
passage  of  legislation  empowering  the  President  to  extend  the  competi- 
tive service  so  far  as  practicable.  We  favor  legislation  to  make  possible 
the  equitable  retirement  of  disabled  and  superannuated  members  of  the 
Civil  Service,  in  order  that  a  higher  standard  of  efficiency  may  be  main- 
tained. 

We  favor  the  amendment  of  the  Federal  Employers'  Liability  Law  so 
as  to  extend  its  provisions  to  all  government  employees,  as  well  as  to 
provide  a  more  liberal  scale  of  compensation  for  injury  and  death. 

CAMPAIGN    CONTRIBUTIONS. 

We  favor  such  additional  legislation  as  may  be  necessary  more 
effectually  to  prohibit  corporations  from  contributing  funds,  directly  or 


348  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS   OF   THE 

indirectly,  to  campaigns  for  the  nomination  or  election  of  the  President, 
the  Vice-President,  Senators,  and  Representatives  in  Congress. 

We  heartily  approve  the  recent  Act  of  Congress  requiring  the  fullest 
publicity  in  regard  to  all  campaign  contributions,  whether  made  in  con- 
nection with  primaries,  conventions,  or  elections. 

CONSERVATION    POLICY. 

We  rejoice  in  the  success  of  the  distinctive  Republican  policy  of  the 
conservation  of  our  National  resources,  for  their  use  by  the  people  with- 
out waste  and  without  monopoly.  We  pledge  ourselves  to  a  continuance 
of  such  a  policy. 

We  favor  such  fair  and  reasonable  rules  and  regulations  as  will  not 
discourage  or  interfere  with  actual  bona  fide  home  seekers,  prospectors 
and  miners  in  the  acquisition  of  public  lands  under  existing  laws. 

PARCELS  POST. 

In  the  interest  of  the  general  pubic,  and  particularly  of  the  agri- 
cultural or  rural  communities,  we  favor  legislation  looking  to  the  estab- 
lishment, under  proper  regulations,  of  a  parcels  post,  the  postal  rates  to 
be  graduated  under  a  zone  system  in  proportion  to  the  length  of  carriage. 

PROTECTION    OF  AMERICAN   CITIZENSHIP. 

We  approve  the  action  taken  by  the  President  and  the  Congress  to 
secure  with  Russia,  as  with  other  countries,  a  treaty  that  will  recognize 
the  absolute  right  of  expatriation  and  that  will  prevent  all  discrimination 
of  whatever  kind  between  American  citizens,  whether  native-born  or 
alien,  and  regardless  of  race,  religion  or  previous  political  allegiance. 
The  right  of  asylum  is  a  precious  possession  of  the  people  of  the  United 
States,  and  it  is  to  be  neither  surrendered  nor  restricted. 

THE   NAVY. 

We  believe  in  the  maintenance  of  an  adequate  navy  for  the  National 
defence,  and  we  condemn  the  action  of  the  Democratic  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives in  refusing  to  authorize  the  construction  of  additional  ships. 

MERCHANT    MARINE. 

We  believe  that  one  of  the  country's  most  urgent  needs  is  a  revived 
merchant  marine.  There  should  be  American  ships,  and  plenty  of  them, 
to  make  use  of  the  great  American  Inter-Oceanic  canal  now  nearing 
completion. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.  349 

FLOOD   PREVENTION   IN   THE   MISSISSIPPI  VALLEY. 

The  Mississippi  River  is  the  nation's  drainage  ditch.  Its  flood  waters, 
gathered  from  thirty-one  States  and  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  constitute 
an  overpowering  force  which  breaks  the  levees  and  pours  its  torrents 
over  many  million  acres  of  the  richest  land  in  the  Union,  stopping  mails, 
impeding  commerce,  and  causing  great  loss  of  life  and  property.  These 
floods  are  national  in  scope,  and  the  disasters  they  produce  seriously 
affect  the  general  welfare.  The  States  unaided  cannot  cope  with  this 
giant  problem;  hence,  we  believe  the  Federal  Government  should  assume 
a  fair  proportion  of  the  burden  of  its  control  so  as  to  prevent  the  dis- 
asters from  recurring  floods. 

RECLAMATION. 

We  favor  the  continuance  of  the  policy  of  the  government  with 
regard  to  the  reclamation  of  arid  lands ;  and  for  the  encouragement  of 
the  speedy  settlement  and  improvement  of  such  lands  we  favor  an  amend- 
ment to  the  law  that  will  reasonably  extend  the  time  within  which  the 
cost  of  any  reclamation  project  may  be  repaid  by  the  land  owners 
under  it. 

RIVERS    AND    HARBORS. 

We  favor  a  liberal  and  systematic  policy  for  the  improvement  of 
our  rivers  and  harbors.  Such  improvements  should  be  made  upon  expert 
information  and  after  a  careful  comparison  of  cost  and  prospective  bene- 
fits. 

ALASKA. 

We  favor  a  liberal  policy  toward  Alaska  to  promote  the  development 
of  the  great  resources  of  that  district,  with  such  safeguards  as  will  pre- 
vent waste  and  monopoly. 

We  favor  the  opening  of  the  coal  lands  to  development  through  a 
law  leasing  the  lands  on  such  terms  as  will  invite  development  and  pro- 
vide fuel  for  the  navy  and  the  commerce  of  the  Pacific  Ocean,  while 
retaining  title  in  the  United  States  to  prevent  monopoly. 

PHILIPPINE    POLICY. 

The  Philippine  policy  of  the  Republican  party  has  been  and  is  in- 
spired by  the  belief  that  our  duty  toward  the  Filipino  people  is  a  national 
obligation  which  should  remain  entirely  free  from  partisan  politics. 


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IMMIGRATION. 

We  pledge  the  Republican  party  to  the  enactment  of  appropriate  laws 
to  give  relief  from  the  constantly  growing  evil  of  induced  or  undesirable 
immigration,  which  is  inimical  to  the  progress  and  welfare  of  the  people 
of  the  United  States. 

SAFETY    AT    SEA. 

We  favor  the  speedy  enactment  of  laws  to  provide  that  seamen 
shall  not  be  compelled  to  endure  involuntary  servitude,  and  that  life  and 
property  at  sea  shall  be  safeguarded  by  the  ample  equipment  of  vessels 
with  lifesaving  appliances  and  with  full  complements  of  skilled,  able- 
bodied  seamen  to  operate  them. 

REPUBLICAN     ACCOMPLISHMENT. 

The  approaching  completion  of  the  Panama  Canal,  the  establishment 
of  a  Bureau  of  Mines,  the  institution  of  postal  savings  banks,  the  in- 
creased provision  made  in  1912  for  the  aged  and  infirm  soldiers  and 
sailors  of  the  Republic  and  for  their  widows,  and  the  vigorous  adminis- 
tration of  the  laws  relating  to  Pure  Food  and  Drugs,  all  mark  the  suc- 
cessful progress  of  Republican  administration,  and  are  additional  evidence 
of  its  effectiveness. 

ECONOMY   AND   EFFICIENCY    IN    GOVERNMENT. 

We  commend  the  earnest  effort  of  the  Republican  administration  to 
secure  greater  economy  and  increased  efficiency  in  the  conduct  of  gov- 
ernment business;  extravagant  appropriations  and  the  creation  of  un- 
necessary offices  are  an  injustice  to  the  taxpayer  and  a  bad  example  to 
the  citizen. 

CIVIC   DUTY. 

We  call  upon  the  people  to  quicken  their  interest  in  public  affairs, 
to  condemn  and  punish  lynchings,  and  other  forms  of  lawlessness,  and 
to  strengthen  in  all  possible  ways  a  respect  for  law  and  the  observance 
of  it.  Indifferent  citizenship  is  an  evil  against  which  the  law  affords  no 
adequate  protection  and  for  which  legislation  can  provide  no  remedy. 

ARIZONA    AND    NEW    MEXICO. 

We  congratulate  the  people  of  Arizona  and  New  Mexico  upon  the 
admission  of  those  States,  thus  merging  in  the  Union  in  final  and  endur- 
ing form  the  last  remaining  portion  of  our  Continental  territory. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.  351 

REPUBLICAN   ADMINISTRATION. 

We  challenge  successful  criticism  of  the  sixteen  years  of  Republican 
administration  under  Presidents  McKinley,  Roosevelt,  and  Taft.  We 
heartily  reaffirm  the  endorsement  of  President  McKinley  contained  in 
the  Platforms  of  1900  and  of  1904,  and  that  of  President  Roosevelt  con- 
tained in  the  Platforms  of  1904  and  1908. 

We  invite  the  intelligent  judgment  of  the  American  people  upon  the 
administration  of  William  H.  Taft.  The  country  has  prospered  and  been 
at  peace  under  his  Presidency.  During  the  years  in  which  he  had  the 
co-operation  of  a  Republican  Congress  an  unexampled  amount  of  con- 
structive legislation  was  framed  and  passed  in  the  interest  of  the  people 
and  in  obedience  to  their  wish.  That  legislation  is  a  record  on  which 
any  administration  might  appeal  with  confidence  to  the  favorable  judg- 
ment of  history. 

We  appeal  to  the  American  Electorate  upon  the  record  of  the  Re- 
publican party,  and  upon  this  declaration  of  its  principles  and  purposes. 
We  are  confident  that  under  the  leadership  of  the  candidates  here  to  be 
nominated  our  appeal  will  not  be  in  vain;  that  the  Republican  party  will 
meet  every  just  expectation  of  the  people  whose  servant  it  is;  that  under 
its  administration  and  its  laws  our  nation  will  continue  to  advance;  that 
peace  and  prosperity  will  abide  with  the  people ;  and  that  new  glory  will 
be  added  to  the  great  republic. 

The   reading  of  the   platform   was   received   with    frequent  applause. 

MR.  MATEO  FAJARDO,  of  Porto  Rico. — Mr.  Chairman,  there  is  one 
paragraph  in  reference  to  Porto  Rico  which  has  been  overlooked,  and  I 
ask  unanimous  consent 'that  it  be  included. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — That  is  not  in  order  at  this  time,  but 
if  the  gentleman  will  withhold  his  request  he  will  be  recognized  later. 

The  gentleman  from  Wisconsin  (Mr.  W.  C.  Owen)  is  recognized  to 
present  the  views  of  the  minority. 

VIEWS   OF   MINORITY   ON    PLATFORM. 

MR.  WALTER  C.  OWEN,  of  Wisconsin. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen 
of  the  Convention,  being  unable  to  agree  with  the  report  of  the  ma- 
jority, the  undersigned  members  of  the  Committee  on  Resolutions  from 
the  States  of  Wisconsin  and  North  Dakota  submit  the  following  views 
of  the  minority  and  recommend  the  adoption  of  the  platform  contained 
therein,  which  I  will  ask  the  Secretary  to  read. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows : 

Being  unable  to  agree  with  the  report  of  the  majority,  the  under- 
signed members  of  the  Committee  on  Resolutions  submit  a  minority 
report  and  recommend  the  adoption  of  the  following  platform : 


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BANKING  AND  CURRENCY. 

More  dangerous  even  than  the  industrial  trusts  is  that  subtle,  con- 
centrated power  exercised  over  money  and  credit,  by  what  is  ordinarily 
called  the  "Money  Trust."  It  can  make  and  unmake  panics.  But  of  far 
greater  significance  is  its  constant,  all-pervading  influence  exerted  from 
day  to  day  over  the  commercial  life  of  the  nation  in  times  of  prosperity 
and  of  adversity  alike.  Through  control  of  capital  it  dominates  prac- 
tically all  important  business.  Without  its  consent  few  large  enterprises, 
public  or  private,  can  be  carried  to  success.  Against  its  opposition  the 
strongest  struggle  is  vain.  To  it,  great  corporations,  cities,  States,  and 
even  the  nation  must  pay  tribute  in  order  to  obtain  needed  loans.  Yet 
this  dominance  of  the  few  is  not  due  to  their  own  wealth,  vast  as  that 
wealth  is.  In  other  days,  the  power  of  the  money-lender  arose  from  the 
vices  or  weakness  of  the  borrower.  But  the  despotic  power  of  the 
money  trust  rests  rather  upon  the  virtues — the  thrift  and  virility — of  a 
great  people.  We  are  subjugated  by  means  of  our  own  savings,  for  the 
money  trust  controls  the  banks  and  the  life  insurance  companies,  reser- 
voirs into  which  the  savings  of  the  nation  naturally  drain.  The  money 
trust  controls  likewise  the  avenues  through  which  these  savings  are  in- 
vested so  as  to  become  remunerative.  Therefore,  the  enterprise  and 
initiative  of  our  people,  qualities  which  ordinarily  emancipate  men,  in- 
crease our  dependence,  since  each  new  demand  for  capital  enhances  the 
power  of  the  few  who  control  it. 

The  resources  of  our  national  banks  designed  for  the  protection  of 
depositors  are  now  permitted,  under  cunningly  devised  provisions  of  our 
patchwork  currency  system,  to  be  transferred  and  re-transferred,  until 
finally  placed  in  speculative  banks  controlled  by  the  money  trust,  and 
used  to  promote  its  own  selfish  interests,  and  augment  its  power. 

Under  our  present  currency  system  the  people's  bank  deposits  are 
forwarded  to  the  reserve  city  banks  to  help  finance  the  trusts,  destroy 
independent  producers,  promote  speculative  markets,  and  foist  inflated 
securities  on  the  public. 

Panics  which  the  money  power  itself  has  created  are  used  to  force 
government  to  come  to  its  aid  and  competitors  to  give  up  their  property. 
The  vice  of  the  system  lies  in  the  privilege  of  using  the  money  and 
credit  of  the  people  for  speculation,  thus  depriving  legitimate  business  of 
support.  This  vice  is  now  admitted  by  the  money  power  itself,  but  the 
legislation  proposed,  however  sound  in  certain  respects,  carries  in  its 
"jokers"  the  intent  to  deceive  the  people.  Pretending  to  offer  support  to 
commerce,  it  creates  preferences  for  speculation  that  lead  to  inflation 
and  rising  prices  instead  of  elasticity  and  stable  prices.  Realizing  that 
the  people's  only  means  of  effective  control  is  power  to  revoke  the  char- 
ter, they  create  a  vested  right  for  fifty  years  with  a  semblance  of  power 
of  revision  by  Congress  once  in  ten  years.  On  the  pretext  that  this  is 


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merely  a  business  question,  they  strive  to  prevent  the  people  from  put- 
ting their  candidates  on  record  regarding  it. 

We  are  opposed  to  the  so-called  Aldrich  Currency  plan.  We  pledge 
our  candidates  that  under  no  circumstances  shall  the  federal  government 
come  to  the  aid  of  high  finance,  but  shall  support  those  banks  that  ex- 
tend a  genuine  preference  to  strictly  commercial,  as  against  speculative, 
loans,  and  to  the  millions  of  real  producers  who  depend  on  those  banks. 
We  favor  a  carefully  worked-out  and  scientific  emergency  circulation 
under  control  of  the  government,  backed  by  proper  reserve,  issued  only 
against  commercial  paper  that  represents  actual  transactions,  and  adopted 
only  after  the  people  have  thoroughly  discussed  and  intelligently  ap- 
proved of  it. 

To  free  the  country  from  this  thralldom,  all  the  powers  of  the 
nation  and  of  the  States  should  be  invoked.  Means  must  be  devised  for 
diverting  from  the  money  trust  the  millions  of  savings  which  flow  freely 
from  city  and  farm  to  its  banks  and  insurance  companies.  The  people 
should  be  enabled  to  control  the  banks  in  which  their  own  money  is 
deposited. 

FEDERAL    TRADE    COMMISSION. 

In  the  enforcement  and  administration  of  federal  laws  designed  to 
curb  and  control  the  powerful  special  interests  of  the  country,  there  is 
much  that  may  be  committed  to  a  Federal  Trade  Commission,  thus 
placing  in  the  hands  of  an  administrative  board  responsible  to  Congress 
many  of  the  functions  now  exercised  by  the  courts,  promoting  prompt- 
ness in  the  administration  of  law  and  avoiding  delays  and  technicalities 
incident  to  court  procedure. 

Among  the  matters  -which  should  be  handled  by  such  a  board  is  the 
determination  of  the  differences  in  the  cost  of  production  at  home  and 
abroad  for  the  purpose  of  protective  tariff  legislation ;  an  investigation 
into  the  character  of  great  combinations  of  capital  and  the  trusts  of  the 
country;  a  determination  of  the  facts  which  may  be  declared  by  law  to 
be  a  violation  of  the  anti-trust  laws ;  enforcing  the  laws  which  may  be 
passed  with  reference  to  the  reasonable  use  of  patents,  and  to  co-operate 
with  the  proposed  Department  of  Labor  in  enforcing  regulations  for  the 
health,  safety  and  hours  of  labor  of  the  employees  of  protected  manu- 
facturers ;  requiring  a  uniform  system  of  accounting  and  cost-keeping 
for  monopolistic  protected  industries  and  combinations,  and  such  other 
powers  as  may  be  conferred  from  time  to  time  by  other  laws  of  Con- 
gress. We  believe  that  all  of  these  functions,  some  of  which  are  now 
performed  ineffectively  by  separate  agencies  of  government  and  by  the 
courts,  may  be  brought  together  in  a  single  organization,  able  to  cope 
with  the  combined  power  of  special  privilege. 

Such  commission  should  be  composed  of  men  peculiarly  qualified  for 
the  discharge  of  such  duties  and  should  be  drawn  from  the  various 


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walks  of  life  and  supplied  with  an  adequate  staff  of  experts,  account- 
ants and  engineers,  to  enable  it  to  properly  discharge  the  duties  con- 
ferred upon  it.  In  subsequent  planks  of  this  platform,  dealing  with  the 
subject  of  tariff,  trusts  and  patents,  more  specific  suggestion  is  made 
of  the  duties  which  appropriately  may  be  conferred  upon  such  com- 
mission. We  pledge  the  establishment  of  such  commission,  the  members 
to  be  appointed  by  the  President  and  subject  to  recall  by  concurrent 
resolution  of  Congress. 

THE    TARIFF. 

The  tariff  has  been  instrumental  in  building  up  American  industry, 
but  it  has  been  seized  upon  by  powerful  interests  to  take  unjust 
advantage  of  consumers  and  wage-earners.  We  favor  a  continuation 
of  the  protective  policy  for  the  benefit  of  the  producing  classes,  but 
demand  that  the  tariff  schedules  be  reduced  to  the  ascertained  differ- 
ence in  the  labor  in  this  country  and  abroad,  and  so  adjusted  as  to 
assure  its  benefit  to  labor  and  not  to  protect  inefficient  management 
nor  place  a  premium  on  the  further  exhaustion  of  our  limited  natural 
resources.  The  investigation  of  these  facts  and  the  revision  of  sched- 
ules should  be  made  by  the  proposed  Federal  Trade  Commission,  sub- 
ject to  the  action  of  Congress,  but  such  schedules  as  are  generally 
recognized  to  be  excessive  shall  be  immediately  reduced. 

PATENTS. 

Inventions  should  be  fully  developed  and  utilized  for  the  public 
benefit  under  reasonable  regulation  by  the  proposed  Federal  Trade 
Commission.  We  pledge  the  enactment  of  a  patent  law  which  will 
protect  the  inventor  as  well  as  the  public,  and  which  cannot  be  used 
against  the  public  welfare  in  the  interest  of  injurious  monopolies. 

TRUSTS   AND   MONOPOLIES. 

The  special  interests,  the  railroads,  the  Harvester  Trust,  the  United 
States  Steel  Trust,  and  all  industrial  combinations  are  planning  to  secure 
some  action  by  the  government  which  will  legalize  their  proceedings  and 
sanction  their  fictitious  capitalization.  Already  there  has  been  one  pow- 
erfully organized  attempt  in  Congress  to  enact  legislation  approving  all 
railroad  combinations  heretofore  perfected  in  violation  of  law,  and  vali- 
date all  the  watered  stocks  and  bonds  with  which  corporate  greed  has 
sought  to  burden  the  commerce  of  the  country.  The  situation  is  criti- 
cal. It  may  be  expected  from  the  attitude  of  the  Supreme  Court,  as 
shown  in  the  Standard  Oil  and  Tobacco  Trust  cases,  that  any  act  on 


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the  part  of  the  executive  or  legislative  branch  of  government  giving 
countenance  to  these  unlawful  combinations  will  be  construed  as  an 
approval  of  the  thousands  of  millions  of  watered  stocks  and  bonds 
issued,  and  will  fasten  upon  the  people  for  all  time  the  speculative 
capitalization  of  public  service  and  industrial  combinations.  The  time 
is  at  hand  to  declare  for  a  statute  that  shall  make  it  everlastingly  impos- 
sible for  any  President,  or  any  Congress,  or  any  court  to  legalize  spuri- 
ous capitalization  as  a  basis  of  extortionate  prices,  and  we  pledge  the 
Republican  party  to  the  enactment  of  such  a  law.  By  the  enactment 
of  the  Sherman  Anti-Trust  Law  in  1890  the  American  people  declared 
their  belief  that  monopoly  is  intolerable,  and  their  determination  that 
competition,  the  natural  law  in  trade,  should  be  maintained  in  business. 
The  will  of  the  people  embodied  in  this  law  has  been  frustrated  because 
the  administrations  charged  with  the  responsibility  failed  to  enforce  the 
law.  But  the  wisdom  of  that  law  has  been  confirmed  by  the  bitter 
experience  of  recent  years.  Within  the  last  dozen  years  trusts  have 
been  organized  in  nearly  every  branch  of  industry.  Competitors  have 
been  ruthlessly  crushed,  extortionate  prices  have  been  exacted  from 
consumers,  business  development  has  been  arrested,  invention  stifled, 
and  the  door  of  opportunity  has  been  closed  to  large  aggregations  of 
capital.  In  the  few  cases  where  consolidation  resulted  in  greater  effi- 
ciency, greedy  monopoly  has  retained  all  its  fruits.  The  public  has  not 
received  any  of  the  resultant  economies  and  benefits  of  combination 
which  have  been  promised  so  profusely.  But  ordinarily  the  combina- 
tions have  demonstrated  merely  that  the  hand  of  monopoly  is  deaden- 
ing, and  that  business  may  as  easily  become  too  large  to  be  efficient 
as  remain  too  small. 

In  order  to  restore  and  preserve  competition,  as  the  people  have 
willed,  new  and  adequate  legal  machinery  must  be  provided.  The 
present  law  is  uncertain  of  application,  since  the  Standard  Oil  and 
Tobacco  cases  have  decided  that  only  unreasonable  restraints  of  trade 
are  prohibited,  and  later  proceedings  in  those  cases  have  shown  that 
the  present  law  is  impotent  to  destroy  monopoly.  Legitimate  business 
halts  because  the  law-abiding  merchant  and  manufacturer  doubts  what 
he  may  legally  do.  Law-breaking  monopoly  flourishes  because  this  same 
uncertainty  increases  the  difficulty  of  enforcing  the  statute  and  making 
it  secure  in  wrong-doing.  Supplemental  legislation  should  be  enacted 
to  remove  this  uncertainty  by  specifying  and  prohibiting  methods,  prac- 
tices and  conditions  which  experience  has  shown  to  be  harmful.  Supple- 
mental legislation  should  be  enacted  to  facilitate  the  enforcement  of  the 
law  by  imposing  upon  those  who  combine  to  restrain  trade  (and  par- 
ticularly upon  those  who  combine  to  control  more  than  thirty  per  cent 
on  any  branch  of  business)  the  burden  of  proving  that  their  action  has 
been  consistent  with  the  public  welfare.  Supplemental  legislation  should 


356  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

also  be  enacted  by  which  proceedings  for  the  dissolution  of  trusts  shall 
become  effective  to  restore  competition.  To  this  end  courts  should  be 
empowered  to  prevent  any  person  from  owning  shares  in  more  than  one 
of  the  companies  into  which  a  trust  has  been  divided  by  decree.  The 
control  of  limited  sources  of  raw  material,  like  coal,  iron  ore  and  copper, 
should  be  broken  up  and  these  resources  opened  to  all  manufacturers 
on  equal  terms.  And  to  afford  an  actual  remedy  for  injuries  suffered 
by  innocent  competitors  and  consumers,  decrees  obtained  in  suits  insti- 
tuted by  the  government  should  be  made  to  inure  to  their  benefit,  and 
they  should  be  permitted  to  seek  in  such  suits  damages  for  wrongs  done 
and  protection  against  future  abuse  of  power  so  illegally  acquired.  The 
proposed  Trade  Commission  should  have  power  to  condemn  all  contracts, 
agreements  and  practices  found  to  be  discriminatory  and  oppressive,  and 
to  compel  the  substitution  of  such  as  are  found  to  be  reasonable.  It 
should  enforce  prohibition  of  criminal  practices  which  should  be  spe- 
cifically defined  by  law.  We  denounce  that  interpretation  of  the  anti- 
trust law  which  uses  it  to  suppress  the  unions  and  co-operative  efforts 
of  wage-earners  and  farmers  in  protecting  their  labor  against  moneyed 
monopolies,  and  we  pledge  a  revision  of  the  law  making  such  construc- 
tion impossible. 

INJUNCTIONS. 

We  pledge  the  Republican  party  to  the  enactment  of  a  law  to  pro- 
hibit the  issuance  of  injunctions  in  cases  arising  out  of  labor  disputes, 
when  such  injunctions  would  not  apply  when  no  labor  disputes  existed, 
and  providing  that  in  no  case  shall  an  injunction  be  issued  when  there 
exists  a  remedy  by  the  ordinary  process  of  law,  and  which  act  shall 
provide  that  in  the  procedure  for  contempt  of  court  the  party  cited  for 
contempt  shall  be  entitled  to  a  trial  by  jury,  except  when  such  contempt 
was  committed  in  the  actual  presence  of  the  court  or  so  near  thereto 
as  to  interfere  with  the  proper  administration  of  justice. 

DEPARTMENT    OF    LABOR. 

We  pledge  the  enactment  of  a  law  creating  a  separate  Department 
of  Labor,  with  a  secretary  at  its  head  having  a  seat  in  the  President's 
cabinet.  We  pledge  ourselves  to  employ  all  the  powers  of  the  Federal 
Government,  including  the  power  over  interstate  commerce  and  internal 
revenue  taxation,  in  order  that  the  benefits  intended  for  American  labor 
from  tariff  protection  shall  actually  reach  the  laborer.  To  this  end  we 
favor  federal  legislation  providing  for  workmen's  compensation  for  acci- 
dent, protection  of  women  and  child  labor,  safety  and  sanitation  in  work- 
places and  reasonable  hours  of  labor  according  to  standards  to  be 
fixed  and  enforced  by  the  Department  of  Labor. 


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We  favor  the  strengthening  of  the  various  agencies  of  the  govern- 
ment relating  to  pure  foods,  quarantine  and  health,  and  their  union  into 
a  single  United  States  Health  Service  not  subordinated  to  any  other 
interest,  commercial  or  financial,  but  devoted  to  co-operation  with  the 
health  activities  of  the  various  States  and  cities  of  the  nation,  and  to 
such  efforts  as  are  consistent  with  reasonable  personable  liberty,  looking 
to  the  elimination  of  unnecessary  disease  and  the  lengthening  of  human 
life. 

CONSERVATION. 

We  pledge  the  preservation  of  the  mines  and  water  powers  in  this 
country  to  the  whole  people,  and  particularly  the  beneficial  control  by 
the  government  of  our  coal  supply,  whether  in  public  or  private  pos- 
session. We  pledge  an  appropriation  for  the  further  exploration  for 
phosphate  beds,  to  be  taken  over  and  operated  by  the  government.  We 
pledge  the  increase  of  the  forest  domain  and  the  extension  of  scientific 
forest  development.  We  pledge  a  thorough  investigation  into  living 
conditions,  and  especially  into  the  conditions  of  rural  life,  and  legislation 
to  encourage  rural  co-operation  and  credit,  land  purchase  by  actual  set- 
tlers with  the  aid  of  long-time  favorable  government  loans,  the  increase 
of  rural  education  and  to  prevent  the  growth  of  monopoly  and  monopoly 
values  in  land,  all  looking  to  the  encouragement  of  the  tiller  of  the 
soil  and  to  the  reduction  of  the  cost  of  living. 

ALASKA. 

Alaska  contains  untold  wealth  in  coal,  lumber,  copper  and  other 
natural  resources  for  the  upbuilding  of  industry  and  commerce  and  for 
the  conquest  of  the  markets  of  the  Orient  and  South  America.  The 
government  still  has  it  in  its  power  to  save  this  vast  storehouse  of 
supplies  from  the  interests  which  have  monopolized  the  natural  re- 
sources of  the  nation.  Before  the  monopoly  of  the  anthracite  coal  of 
Pennsylvania  in  the  days  of  free  competition,  that  coal  sold  at  from 
$2.50  to  $3  a  ton  at  the  seaboard.  Independent  producers  were  de- 
stroyed by  discriminations  and  rebates  and  the  oppressive  methods  exer- 
cised by  monopoly  of  transportation.  To-day  96  per  cent  of  the  anthra- 
cite coal  mines  are  owned  and  controlled  by  great  railroads.  The  coal 
costs  at  the  mouth  of  the  mine  $1.84  per  ton,  and  sells  at  the  Atlantic 
seaboard  at  from  $6  to  $7  per  ton. 

To  preserve  Alaska  for  all  the  people,  to  develop  its  untouched  re- 
sources, we  should  adopt  the  plan  so  successfully  carried  through  in 
Panama,  where  the  government  has  built  and  now  maintains  a  railway 


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and  Atlantic  steamship  line.  We  should  utilize  the  Panama  Commission, 
a  highly  trained,  efficient  body  of  men  which  has  mastered  almost  every 
conceivable  engineering  emergency  to  build  government-owned  and  oper- 
ated railways,  terminals,  docks,  harbors,  and  to  operate  coal  mines,  to 
the  end  that  the  last  remaining  patrimony  of  the  nation  shall  forever  be 
free  from  the  control  of  monopoly.  We  should  own  and  operate  a  gov- 
ernment line  of  steamships,  running  from  Alaska  by  way  of  Pacific 
ports  through  the  Panama  Canal  to  New  York,  thus  relieving  the 
Atlantic  and  Pacific  seaboard  from  the  oppression  of  transcontinental 
lines.  And  we  favor  the  immediate  enactment  of  such  legislation  as 
will  preserve  this  remaining  heritage  of  the  nation,  and  develop  it 
for  the  benefit  of  all  the  people. 

PANAMA    CANAL. 

The  construction  of  the  Panama  Canal  was  designed  to  give  the 
public  the  benefit  of  water  competition  as  a  protection  against  excessive 
transcontinental  railway  rates.  The  American  people  assumed  the  enor- 
mous burden  required  for  this  greatest  of  all  engineering  projects  at  a 
total  cost,  with  purchase  and  treaty  rights,  of  $375,000.000.  Already  the 
interests  are  organized  to  secure  the  exclusive  benefits  to  flow  from  the 
construction  of  the  Panama  Canal.  In  order  to  preserve  their  present 
ftigh  railway  rates  they  seek  to  make  the  water  rate  by  the  canal 
expensive  by  imposing  a  heavy  tax  upon  domestic  commerce  through 
the  canal.  These  interests  must  be  made  to  keep  their  powerful  hands 
off  this  canal  and  the  steamship  lines  as  well.  The  people  have  paid  for 
its  construction,  as  they  have  paid  for  improving  the  rivers  and  harbors, 
and  should  resist  now  any  further  attempt  on  the  part  of  the  railroads 
to  rob  the  public  of  all  advantages  resulting  from  a  reduced  rate  by 
water. 

We  favor  such  legislation  as  will  insure  the  domestic  commerce  of 
this  country,  when  carried  in  American  ships,  passage  through  the 
Panama  Canal  free  of  all  tolls. 

INTERSTATE  COMMERCE. 

The  life  of  the  nation  is  close-woven  with  the  means  of  transpor- 
tation upon  which  communities  must  depend  in  trade  and  commerce. 
The  railways,  which  are  clearly  defined  by  law  to  be  public  servants, 
have  become  more  powerful  than  their  creators.  Two  thousand  inde- 
pendent competing  companies  have  merged  into  a  half-dozen  groups 
controlled  by  a  handful  of  men.  They  have  issued  billions  of  securi- 
ties that  represent  no  investment  by  their  owners.  Thousands  of  mil- 
lions have  wrongfully  been  extorted  from  consumers  and  invested  in 


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permanent  improvements  and  extensions,  and  thereupon  capitalized  and 
made  an  excuse  for  still  greater  extortions.  The  gross  railway  earn- 
ings of  the  country  have  reached  the  enormous  total  of  more  than 
two  billion  eight  hundred  million  dollars  annually.  This  transportation 
tax  is  mainly  levied  upon  the  necessaries  of  life.  Railway  rates  and 
charges  are  not  adjusted  to  the  cost  of  the  service.  They  are  fixed  by 
what  the  traffic  will  stand.  The  sacrifice  and  the  hardships  of  the  farmer 
and  the  worker  because  of  this  unchecked  power  to  collect  such  tribute 
as  the  masters  of  transportation  dictate  will  never  be  known.  No  effect- 
ive regulation  of  railways  is  possible  until  we  know  the  cost  of  service, 
and  the  cost  of  service  depends  upon  the  value  of  the  property  used 
in  the  business,  the  cost  of  maintaining  the  property  and  the  cost  of 
operation.  We  favor  the  reasonable  valuation  of  the  physical  properties 
of  interstate  railroad,  telegraph,  telephone  and  other  public  utility  com- 
panies, justly  inventoried  and  determined  upon  a  sound  economic  basis, 
distinguishing  actual  values  from  monopoly  values,  derived  from  viola- 
tions of  law,  and  making  such  discriminating  values,  so  ascertained,  the 
base  line  for  determining  rates.  With  such  a  valuation  the  country  would 
know  how  much  of  the  total  value  of  railway  property  represented  by 
the  eighteen  billions  of  stocks  and  bonds  issued  against  that  property 
was  contributed  by  those  who  own  the  railroads,  and  how  much  by  the 
people  themselves  in  excessive  rates.  The  Interstate  Commerce  Com- 
mission is  wholly  unable  to  deal  with  the  problem  under  existing  law. 
It  can  at  present  do  no  more  than  check  some  of  the  most  flagrant 
abuses.  We  should  recognize  the  magnitude  of  the  undertaking  to  con- 
trol and  regulate  interstate  commerce.  We  favor  such  amendment  and 
revision  of  existing  law  as  shall  provide  for  a  nation-wide  supervision 
of  railway  transportation  and  services  by  the  division  of  the  country 
into  districts,  in  each  of  which  a  subsidiary  commission  should  be  estab- 
lished to  regulate  and  control  the  railways  within  its  jurisdiction,  retain- 
ing the  present  Interstate  Commerce  Commission,  to  which  appeals  should 
lie  from  the  orders  of  the  subsidiary  commissions.  Only  by  such  com- 
prehensive control  can  the  shippers  and  consumers  of  the  country  be 
assured  adequate  protection. 

JOINT    CONTROL   OF   PRODUCTION    AND   TRANSPORTATION. 

Common  ownership,  operation  or  control  of  mines  or  manufactories 
and  public  railroads  is  inseparable  from  discrimination  and  resulting  ex- 
tortions. We  oppose  all  combinations  whereby,  through  joint  ownership 
or  control,  the  public  service  corporations  engaged  in  transportation, 
including  pipe  lines,  operate  in  conjunction  with  coal,  iron  ore,  oil  or 
other  private  agencies  of  production 


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PARCELS    POST   AND    EXPRESS. 

We  pledge  the  extension  of  the  postal  service  to  include  a  parcels 
post,  offering,  against  the  service  of  the  private  express  monopoly,  a 
cheap  and  direct  means  of  transportation  between  the  producer  and  the 
consumer,  upon  a  charge  based  upon  distance  and  the  actual  cost  of 
operation. 

GOOD   ROADS. 

Recognizing  the  demand  and  necessity  for  good  roads,  we  favor 
State  and  national  aid  for  their  construction  and  maintenance,  under 
a  plan  which  will  insure  its  benefits  alike  to  all  communities  upon  their 
own  initiative. 

SHIP  SUBSIDY. 

We  are  unequivocally  opposed  to  a  ship  subsidy  in  any  form  as  vicious 
and  indefinable  in  principle.  Once  entrenched,  it  would  become  another 
corrupting  influence  in  our  politics. 

WAR    EXPENDITURES. 

We  are  opposed  to  further  extravagance  on  the  advice  of  interested 
persons  only  in  building  battleships  and  political  navy  yards,  and  favor 
the  establishment  of  an  unprejudiced  commission  to  investigate  and  report 
what  is  required  in  the  way  of  national  defense. 

DOLLAR    DIPLOMACY. 

We  condemn  the  "dollar  diplomacy"  which  has  reduced  our  State 
Department  from  its  high  plane  as  a  kindly  intermediary  of  defenseless 
nations  into  a  trading  outpost  for  Wall  Street  interests,  aiming  to  exploit 
those  who  would  be  our  friends. 

INCOME  AND  INHERITANCE   TAXES. 

We  collect  the  revenues  to  maintain  our  national  government  through 
taxing  consumption.  These  taxes  upon  the  consumer  are  levied  upon 
articles  of  universal  use.  They  bear  most  heavily  upon  the  poor  and 
those  of  moderate  means.  Other  countries  tax  incomes  and  inheritances 
at  a  progressive  rate.  The  burdens  of  our  people  should  be  equalized. 
Wealth  should  bear  its  share. 

We  favor  the  adoption  of  the  pending  income  tax  amendment  to  the 
Constitution  and  thereupon  the  immediate  passage  of  a  graduated  income 
tax  law,  and  we  pledge  the  enactment  of  law  taxing  inheritances  at  a 
progressive  rate. 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  361 

INITIATIVE,  REFERENDUM  AND  RECALL. 

Over  and  above  constitutions  and  statutes,  and  greater  than  all,  is 
the  supreme  sovereignty  of  the  people.  Whenever  the  initiative,  referen- 
dum and  the  recall  have  been  adopted  by  State  governments,  it  has  stimu- 
latd  the  interest  of  the  citizen  in  his  government  and  awakened  a  deeper 
sense  of  responsibility.  If  it  is  wise  to  entrust  the  people  with  this 
power  in  State  government,  no  one  can  challenge  the  extension  of  this 
power  to  the  national  government.  We  favor  such  amendments  to  the 
Federal  Constitution,  and  thereupon  the  enactment  of  such  statutes,  as 
may  be  necessary  to  extend  the  initiative,  the  referendum  and  the  recall 
to  Representatives  in  Congress  and  United  States  Senators. 

So  long  as  judges  are  the  final  makers  of  statute  and  constitutional 
law,  government  by  the  people  becomes  government  by  a  judicial  oli- 
garchy. The  people  are  the  source  of  all  power,  and  we  favor  the  ex- 
tension of  the  recall  to  the  judiciary  with  safeguards  as  to  lapse  of  time 
between  the  petition  and  the  vote. 

I 

AMENDING  CONSTITUTION. 

Under  a  democratic  form  of  government,  the  right  to  amend  and 
alter  their  Constitution  is  inherent  in  the  sovereignty  of  the  people.  But 
the  methods  of  amendment  prescribed  in  the  Constitution,  framed  when 
this  government  was  a  small  community  with  a  total  population  of  only 
four  million,  render  it  almost  impossible  of  application  by  a  nation  of 
ninety  million  people,  divided  into  forty-eight  States,  with  a  most  com- 
plex social  and  industrial  life.  For  more  than  fifty  years  an  overwhelm- 
ing majority  of  all  the  voters  have  struggled  in  vain  so  to  amend  the 
Constitution  to  insure  the  election  of  United  States  Senators  by  direct 
vote  of  the  people.  The  public  interest  demands  that  this  should  be 
remedied. 

We  favor  such  amendment  to  the  Constitution  as  will  permit  a 
change  to  be  made  therein  by  a  majority  of  the  votes  cast  upon  a  pro- 
posed amendment  in  a  majority  of  the  States,  provided  a  majority  of  all 
the  votes  cast  in  the  country  shall  be  in  favor  of  its  adoption.  An  amend- 
ment may  be  initiated  by  a  majority  in  Congress,  or  ten  States  acting 
either  through  the  legislatures  thereof  or  through  a  majority  of  the  elec- 
tors voting  thereon  in  each  State. 

PRESIDENTIAL  PRIMARIES. 

In  the  conflict  with  privilege  now  on,  much  progress  has  already  been 
made  through  the  direct  primary.  We  favor  the  enactment  of  a  Federal 
statute  providing  for  the  nomination  of  all  candidates  for  President,  Vice- 
President,  and  representatives  in  Congress,  by  direct  vote  of  the  people  at 


362  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

a  primary  election  held  in  all  States  upon  the  same  day,  the  question  of 
closed  or  open  primaries  to  be  determined  by  each  State  for  itself. 

The  law  should  provide  that,  after  the  nomination  of  candidates  for 
President  and  Vice-President  by  the  primary,  national  platform  conven- 
tions shall  be  held  for  each  political  party  recognized  by  law,  the  expenses 
of  attendance  by  members  to  be  paid  from  the  public  treasury. 

CORRUPT    PRACTICES. 

We  pledge  legislation  providing  for  the  widest  publicity  and  strictest 
limitation  of  campaign  expenditures  and  the  detailed  publication  of  all 
campaign  contributions  and  expenditures,  both  as  to  sources  and  purposes, 
at  frequent  intervals  before  primaries  and  elections  as  well  as  after. 

DIRECT  ELECTION  OF  SENATORS. 

We  pledge  support  of  the  pending  amendment  to  the  Constitution 
for  the  election  of  Senators  of  the  United  States  by  direct  vote. 

EQUAL    SUFFRAGE. 

We  favor  the  extension  of  the  suffrage  to  women. 

LEGISLATION   AND  PUBLICITY. 

We  pledge  the  enactment  of  a  law  requiring  all  Congressional  Com- 
mittee hearings  to  be  public  and  providing  for  a  permanent  public  record 
of  all  appearances  and  votes  at  committee  meetings  and  for  the  strictest 
regulation  of  the  acts  of  all  persons  employed  for  pecuniary  consideration 
to  oppose  or  promote  legislation. 

LEGISLATIVE  REFERENCE  DEPARTMENT. 

The  growth  of  statute  law,  resulting  from  the  increasing  economic 
problems  urgently  requires  increased  attention  to  the  facilities  for  the 
enactment  of  legislation,  in  the  most  effective  and  serviceable  form. 

We  pledge  the  establishment  of  a  non-partisan  federal  legislative  ref- 
erence and  drafting  bureau. 

CIVIL  SERVICE. 

We  pledge  the  extension  of  the  civil  service  law  to  all  branches  of 
the  federal  service  and  the  abolition  of  useless  sinecures,  and  pledge  the 
strengthening  and  enforcement  of  the  law  prohibiting  the  use  of  federal 
employes  to  perpetuate  the  power  of  an  existing  administration.  Justice 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  363 

and  efficiency  require  an  extension  to  all  classes  of  civil  service  employes 
of  the  benefits  of  the  provisions  of  the  compensation  act,  and  a  provi- 
sion by  law  for  a  direct  petition  to  Congress  by  civil  service  employes 
for  redress  of  their  grievances. ' 

Dated  at  Chicago,  June  22nd,  1912. 

W.  C.  OWEN, 

Of  Wisconsin. 
P.  O.  THORSON, 
Of  North  Dakota. 

MR.  CHARLES  W.  FAIRBANKS,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  move  to 
lay  upon  the  table  the  motion  made  by  the  distinguished  gentleman  from 
Wisconsin  (Mr.  Owen),  but  withhold  my  motion  for  twenty  minutes  in 
order  that  he  may  address  the  Convention. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  recognizes  the  delegate  from 
Wisconsin  (Mr.  Cady)  to  address  the  Convention  in  support  of  the  mo- 
tion to  substitute  the  views  of  the  minority  for  the  report  of  the  Com- 
mittee. 

MR.  SAMUEL  H.  CADY,  of  Wisconsin. — Gentlemen  of  the  Convention: 
For  some  two  or  three  days  I  sat  in  an  adjoining  room  as  a  member  of 
your  Committee  on  Credentials,  and  during  that  time,  and  as  the  result 
of  the  charges  of  fraud  and  recrimination  I  was  convinced  of  the  rea- 
sonableness and  the  necessity  of  a  national  presidential  primary,  by  means 
of  which  the  national  government  should  recognize  the  legality  of  na- 
tional parties  and  provide  a  method  of  uniform  selection  by  Congres- 
sional districts,  by  means  of  which  delegates  to  this  Convention  should 
be  selected,  and  I  ask  the  support  of  this  Convention  in  favor  of  that 
plank  in  our  platform. 

I  also  want  to  call  your  attention  to  the  plank  on  the  subject  of  * 
corrupt  practice  act  which  shall  require  a  candidate  for  President  of 
these  United  States  to  tell  the  people  where  he  gets  two  million  dollars 
with  which  to  conduct  a  campaign ;  because,  let  me  tell  you,  gentlemen  of 
the  Convention,  a  man  may  assert  that  he  believes  in  curbing  the  trusts, 
but  if  you  find  a  supporter  of  that  candidate  contributing  one-third  of  a 
million  dollars  to  his  campaign,  and  that  supporter  being  the  president  of 
the  greatest  trust  in  the  United  States,  you  may  with  reason  question  the 
sincerity  of  that  candidate  when  he  makes  the  assertion.  (Applause.) 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  I  know  that  you  are  weary,  and  I  wiD 
not  detain  you  long.  The  subject  of  a  Federal  Trade  Commission  is  an- 
other of  our  planks.  We  believe  that  our  tariff  should  be  the  result  of 
intelligent  and  scientific  investigation,  and  so  we  have  put  in  our  plat- 
form, in  this  minority  report,  a  provision  for  such  a  Federal  Trade  Com- 
mission, whose  duty,  among  other  things,  shall  be  the  scientific  investiga- 
tion of  the  facts  upon  which  Congress  may  intelligently  legislate  on  the 
subject  of  the  tariff. 


364  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

Another  consideration  with  reference  to  this  proposed  Trade  Com- 
mission. The  ultimate  effect  of  a  protective  tariff  is  to  give  a  subsidy  to 
protected  industries.  The  alleged  justification  for  our  high  protective 
tariffs  is  that  they  benefit  labor.  It  is  unreasonable  and  unbusinesslike 
that  we  should  continue  indefinitely  the  payment  of  these  subsidies  with- 
out knowing  whether  labor  reaps  the  benefit  or  not.  From  the  little  that 
we  do  know  as  a  result  of  such  investigation  as  the  congressional  com- 
mittees made  at  the  time  of  the  Lawrence  strike,  and  as  the  Bureau  of 
Corporations  made  of  United  States  Steel,  it  appears  that  labor  does  not 
receive  the  benefits  of  the  subsidies  which  the  people  pay  in  the  form  of 
tariffs,  and  it  appears  that  frequently  where  the  largest  subsidy  is  paid 
the  labor  conditions  are  the  poorest.  In  order  that  the  people  may  know 
what  the  country  is  receiving  in  the  form  of  efficiency  of  production  and 
benefits  to  labor  for  the  subsidies  paid  to  protected  industries,  it  is  in- 
tended that  all  such  shall  be  required  to  keep  a  uniform  system  of  ac- 
counting, to  show  the  actual  cost  upon  actual  investment,  with  particular 
reference  to  what  labor  receives. 

This  country  cannot  afford  to  maintain  a  protective  tariff  to  protect 
inefficiency  or  to  protect  the  holders  of  watered  stocks  in  receiving  divi- 
dends, in  order  to  protect  greed  in  its  ambition,  but  it  can  afford  to 
maintain  a  protective  tariff  for  the  benefit  of  labor.  But  we  must  know 
that  labor  receives  that  benefit,  and  it  is  our  duty  to  help  to  make  the 
protected  manufacturer  pass  the  benefit  of  the  tariff  along  to  labor,  and 
it  is  our  contention  that  this  proposed  Federal  Trade  Commission  would 
accomplish  that  purpose. 

Now  just  one  word  upon  the  subject  of  our  patent  laws.  A  patent 
is  an  artificial  monopoly.  Patents  are  granted  to  encourage  invention.  In 
this  way  it  is  supposed  that  the  public  welfare  will  be  promoted.  But 
when  patents  are  purchased  by  monopolies  for  the  purpose  of  preventing 
competition,  the  public  welfare  is  not  promoted.  The  public  welfare  is 
not  promoted  when  a  monopoly  buys  a  patent,  nor  is  the  public  welfare 
promoted  by  such  a  concern  as  the  Shoe  Machinery  Trust,  which  is  in  a 
position  to  say  to  all  inventors:  "We  have  a  monopoly  of  the  shoe  ma- 
chinery business.  It  is  useless  for  you  to  invent  a  shoe  manufacturing 
machine  unless  you  are  willing  to  sell  it  to  us  at  our  price." 

The  theory  that  one  who  sells  or  leases  a  patent  cook  stove  may 
attach  as  a  condition  to  the  sale  or  lease  a  provision  that  only  a  certain 
kind  of  flour  may  be  used  in  the  baking  of  bread  on  that  stove,  is  intol- 
erable. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN.— The  Chair  recognizes  Mr.  Blaine,  of 
Wisconsin. 

MR.  J.  J.  BLAINE,  of  Wisconsin. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of 
the  Convention :  Wisconsin  offers  to  you  a  new  charter  of  Republican- 
ism, which  is  the  old  charter  of  progressiveism.  The  Wisconsin  idea 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  365 

has  not  been  born  in  a  day  or  a  month  or  a  year.  It  is  the  growth  of 
many  years.  It  embodies  the  thought  of  the  best  students  of  political 
economy  and  of  government.  It  is  not  constructed  for  the  purpose  of 
fooling  the  people.  It  is  constructed  for  the  purpose  of  offering  to  the 
Republicans  of  these  United  States  a  platform  of  doctrines  upon  which 
the  Republican  party  of  this  nation  can  win,  and  upon  that  platform  alone 
can  it  be  successful  in  November. 

Let  me  appeal  to  you  men  of  New  York  and  Massachusetts  and 
Maine  and  Pennsylvania,  calling  your  attention  to  the  fact  that  out  of 
the  West  has  come  the  leader  of  this  new  charter  of  Republicanism. 
Seven  years  ago  he  was  the  lonely  man  of  the  United  States  Senate. 
To-day  he  holds  a  position  there  commanding  the  mountain  top,  as  the 
original  progressive  Republican  of  the  United  States.  (Applause.) 

A  DELEGATE. — What  are  you  doing— nominating  him  ? 

MR.  ELAINE,  of  Wisconsin. — To-day  he  is  possibly  the  lonely  man  of 
this  Convention,  but  nevertheless  it  is  the  purpose  of  Wisconsin  to  pre- 
sent to  you  this  program,  and  offer  you  this  opportunity  to  save  the 
traditions  of  the  Republican  party  in  November.  (Applause.) 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN  — The  question  is  upon  the  motion  of  the 
gentleman  from  Indiana  (Mr.  Fairbanks)  to  lay  upon  the  table  the 
motion  to  substitute  the  minority  views  on  platform  for  the  report  of  the 
majority. 

There  were  calls  for  a  yea  and  nay  vote. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — A  roll  call  is  demanded.  Is  the  demand 
seconded  by  two  States?  (Cries  of  "No,  no!")  The  Chair  does  not 
observe  the  requisite  number  of  seconds.  The  question  is  upon  the  adop- 
tion of  the  motion  of  the  gentleman  from  Indiana  (Mr.  Fairbanks)  to 
lay  upon  the  table  the  motion  of  the  gentleman  from  Wisconsin  (Mr. 
Owen)  to  substitute  the  views  of  the  minority  for  the  report  of  the 
majority  of  the  Committee  on  Resolutions. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

MR.  CHARLES  W.  FAIRBANKS,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman,  by  direc- 
tion of  the  Committee  on  Resolutions,  I  present  the  following  to  be  in- 
serted at  the  proper  place  in  the  platform : 

"We  ratify  in  all  its  parts  the  platform  of  1908  respecting  citizenship 
for  the  people  of  Porto  Rico." 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — If  there  be  no  objection,  the  addition 
made  by  the  Committee  will  be  incorporated  in  the  report. 

There  was  no  objection. 

MR.  FAIRBANKS,  of  Indiana. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  ask  for  a  vote  upon 
my  motion  to  adopt  the  report  of  the  Committee. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  question  is  on  agreeing  to  the 
motion  of  the  gentleman  from  Indiana. 


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OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


MR.  WILLIAM  BARNES,  JR.,  of  New  York. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  ask  that 
the  roll  of  States  be  called  on  the  adoption  of  the  platform. 

The  demand  for  the  yeas  and  nays  was  seconded  by  Mr.  James  A. 
Hemenway,  of  Indiana,  and  Mr.  Simon  Guggenheim,  of  Colorado,  and 
others. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  demand  for  a  roll  call  being  sec- 
onded, the  Secretary  will  call  the  roll  of  States  on  the  question  of  the 
adoption  of  the  platform. 

The  Secretary  proceeded  to  call  the  roll  of  States. 

MR.  MEYER  LISSNER,  of  California  (when  the  State  of  California  was 
called). — California  declines  to  vote. 

MR.  E.  H.  TRYON,  of  California. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  challenge  the 
vote  of  California  and  demand  a  roll  call. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  vote  of  California  being  challenged, 
the  Secretary  will  call  the  roll  of  delegates. 

The  roll  of  California  was  called,  and  the  result  was  announced: 
Yeas.  2 ;  not  voting,  24,  as  follows : 


CALIFORNIA. 

AT    LARGE. 

Delegates.  Yea. 

Hiram     W.     Johnson 

Chester    H.     Rowell 

Meyer     Lissner 

Francis   J.    Heney 

William     Kent 

Mrs.   Florence  C.  Porter 

Marshall     Stimson 

Frank   S.    Wallace 

George     C.     Pardee 

Lee    C.    Gates 

Clinton    L.    White 

John    M.    Eshleman 

C.    H.    Windham 

William    H.    Sloane 

C.    C.    Young 

Ralph    W.     Bull 

S.    C.    Beach 

John    H.    McCallum 

Truxton     Beale 

W.    G.   Tillotson 

Sumner   Crosby 

Charles    E.    Snook 

Mrs.    Isabella   W.    Blaney 

Jesse   L.   Hurlburt 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

4 — E.    H.    Tryon i 

Morris    Meyerfeld,    Jr i 


Not  Voting. 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  367 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll  of  States,  etc. 

The  State  of  Illinois  was  called  and  passed. 

The  State  of  Iowa  was  called  and  passed. 

The  State  of  Maryland  was  called,  and  the  vote  was  announced: 
Yeas,  8 ;  present  and  not  voting,  6 ;  absent,  2. 

MR.  GALEN  L.  TAIT,  of  Maryland. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  challenge  the 
vote  of  Maryland,  and  demand  a  poll. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  vote  of  Maryland  being  challenged, 
the  roll  of  delegates  will  be  called. 

The  Secretary  having  called  the  roll  of  the  Maryland  delegates,  the 
result  was  announced :  Yeas,  10 ;  present  and  not  voting,  6,  as  follows : 

MARYLAND. 

AT   LARGE.  Present  and 

Delegates.  Yea.               Not  Voting. 

Phillips    Lee    Goldsborough I 

William    T.    Warburton i 

Edw.    C.    Carrington,    Jr . .                              i 

George  L.  Wellington   (By  Gist  Blair,  alternate) i 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Albert   G.    Tower i 

William  B.  Tilghman i 

a — Robert     Garrett i 

John    H.    Cunningham i 

3 — Alfred    A.    Moreland . .                              i 

Louis   E.    Melis . .                              i 

4 — Theodore   P,  Weis   (By   Wm.   G.   Albrecht,  alternate)  . .                             i 

Joseph    P.    Evans . .                              i 

5 — Adrian    Posey i 

R.     N.     Ryan i 

6 — S.    K.    Jones i 

Galen  L.  Tait i 


The  State  of  Massachusetts  was  called  and  passed. 

MR.  DENEEN,  of  Illinois. — The  Illinois  delegation  is  now  ready  to  vote, 
and  asks  unanimous  consent  that  it  may  do  so  at  this  time. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — By  unanimous  consent,  Illinois  now 
being  ready  to  cast  its  vote,  the  State  will  be  called. 

The  State  of  Illinois  was  called  and  the  vote  announced:  Yeas,  49; 
not  voting,  9;  absent,  3. 

MR.  LEN  SMALL,  of  Illinois. — I  ask  to  have  the  Illinois  delegation 
polled. 

MR.  CHAUNCEY  DEWEY,  of  Illinois. — I  challenge  the  vote  of  Illinois. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  vote  of  Illinois  being  challenged, 
the  Secretary  will  call  the  roll  of  delegates. 

The  Secretary  called  the  roll  of  Illinois. 


368  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — Certain  Illinois  delegates  not  having 
voted,  their  alternates  will  be  called. 

MR.  CHARLES  S.  DENEEN,  of  Illinois. — Mr.  Chairman,  Judge  Sherman 
authorized  Colonel  Rosenfield  to  cast  his  vote  "Yea."  He  is  in  the  hos- 
pital, and  the  doctor  is  here  from  the  hospital  and  says  that  it  would 
imperil  his  health  to  have  him  brought  here.  His  alternate  in  the  mean- 
time is  in  the  hall,  I  think,  and  we  are  searching  for  him. 

The  names  of  the  following  alternates  for  the  delegates-at-large 
were  called,  but  none  of  them  voted :  \V.  L.  Sackett,  H.  M.  Dunlap,  C.  H. 
Williamson,  John  R.  Robertson,  Walter  Schrojda,  Anton  Vanek,  G.  K. 
Schmidt,  J.  R.  Marshall. 

The  roll  call  of  the  Illinois  delegation  having  been  concluded,  the 
result  was  announced :  Yeas,  46 ;  present  and  not  voting,  9 ;  absent,  3, 
as  follows : 

ILLINOIS. 

AT     LARGE. 

Present  and 

Delegates.  Yea.      Not  Voting.     Absent. 

Charles    S.    Deneen I                   ..                   .. 

Roy    O.    West i 

B.   A.   Eckhart i 

Chauncey   Dewey '    i 

L.    Y.     Sherman _ .                     t 

Robert  D.   Clark ! 

L.  L.  Emmerson i 

VV.    A.    Rosenfield l                 "                  " 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Francis  P.   Brady ! 

Martin   B.    Madden x 

2 — John   J.   Hanberg : 

Isaac    N.    Powell i 

3— William  H.   Weber   (By  Wm.  J.   Roberts,  alternate')  .  i 

Charles    VV.    Vail !                  |. 

4 — Thomas  J.    Ilealy l 

Albert    C.    Heiser t 

5 — Charles   J.    Happel! l 

William  J.   Cooke t 

6 — Homer  K.  Galpin : 

Allen   S.    Ray , 

7 — Abel     Davis  .   .  . j 

D.     A.     Campbell 

8 — John  F.  Devine  (By  August  Wilhelm,  alternate)  ...  i 

Isidore  H.  Himes l 

9—  Fred    W.    Upham ..'...  , 

R.  R.  McCormick 

10 — James   Pease l 

John  E.  Wilder t 

ii — Ira  C.  Copley 

John    Lambert 

12— Fred.  E.   Sterling 

H.   W.  Johnson 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION  369 

ILLINOIS.— Continued. 

Present  and 

Delegates.                                                                                Yea.      Not  Voting.     Abs?»t. 
13 — James  A.   Cowley ..  I 

J.  T.  Williams I 

14 — Frank  G.  Allen i 

William  J.  Graham i 

15 — Harry   E.    Brown i 

Clarence  E.   Sniveley i 

16 — Edward  N.  Woodruff i 

Cairo    A.     Trimble i 

17 — G.  J.  Johnson . .  i 

Frank    B.    Stitt i 

1 8— John    L.    Hamilton i 

Len   Small i 

19 — W.  L.  Shellabarger  (15y  Jno.   H.  Chadwick,  alternate)      . .  \ 

Elim    J.    Hawbaker i 

20 — J.     A.     Glenn i 

W.  W.  Watson i 

21 — Logan    Hay i 

William    H.    Provine i 

22— Edward    E.     Miller i 

Henry    J.    Schmidt i 

23 — William    F.    Bundy i 

Aden     Knoph i 

24 — Randolph   Smith i 

James    B.    Barker i 

25 — Philip    H.    Eisenmayer i 

Walter    Wood I 

46  9  3 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll  of  States,  etc. 

MR.  RICHMOND  PEARSON  (when  the  State  of  North  Carolina  was 
called). — Mr.  Chairman,  the  genuine  friends  of  Theodore  Roosevelt  in 
the  North  Carolina  delegation  desire  me  to  announce  that  they  will  re- 
frain from  voting.  I  understand  that  there  are  members  of  that  dele- 
gation who  desire  to  vote.  Consequently,  I  ask  that  the  roll  be  called. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  roll  of  the  North  Carolina  delega- 
tion will  be  called. 

The  Secretary  having  called  the  roll  of  North  Carolina,  the  result 
was  announced :  Yeas,  6 ;  present  and  not  voting,  12 ;  absent,  6,  as  fol- 
lows: 

NORTH    CAROLINA. 

AT     LARGE. 

Present  and 
Delegates.  Yea.      Not  Voting.     Absent. 

Zeb  V.  Walser   (By  Thomas  J.  Cheek,  alternate) i 

Richmond    Pearson i 

Thomas    E.    Owen . .  i 

Cyrus  Thompson i 


370  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

NORTH  CAROLINA.— Continued. 

Present  and 
DISTRICTS. — Delegates.  yea.      Not  Voting.     Abtent. 

i — Isaac  M.  Meekins I 

Wheeler     Martin I  . .  . .     ' 

j — Daniel    W.    Patrick I 

George  W.  Stanton I 

3 — Marion    Butler ..  i 

W.    S.    O'B.    Robinson . .  i 

4 — J.  C.  L.  Harris i 

John    C.    Matthews i 

5— James  N.  Williamson i 

John    T.    Benbow i 

6— R.    S.    White i 

D.   H.    Senter . .  i 

7— C.   H.   Cowles i 

J.  T.  Hedrick i 

8 — Moses  N.   Harshaw i 

W.    Henry    Hobson . .  i 

9 — S.    S.    McNinch i 

Charles  E.    Green .  .  i  • 

10 — A.    T.    Pritchard    (By  John   B.    Sumner,   alternate)  ....  i 

R.    H.    Staton i 


The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  FRANCIS  E.  McGovERN,  of  Wisconsin  (when  Wisconsin  was 
called). — Under  protest,  Wisconsin  casts  26  votes  "Nay." 

The  Secretary  resumed  and  concluded  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  State  of  Massachusetts  will  again 
be  called. 

MR.  GEORGE  L.  BARNES,  of  Massachusetts  (when  Massachusetts  was 
again  called). — Mr.  Chairman,  I  ask  that  the  roll  of  Massachusetts  be 
called. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — Is  the  gentleman  unable  to  announce 
the  vote  of  Massachusetts? 

MR.  BARNES,  of  Massachusetts. — I  am  able  to  announce  that  18  of 
the  Massachusetts  delegates  vote  "Yea,"  but  I  request  that  the  roll  of 
Massachusetts  be  called. 

MR.  FREDERICK  FOSDICK,  of  Massachusetts. — Fourteen  of  our  delega- 
tion are  present  and  not  voting;  four  are  absent. 

MR.  GUY  A.  HAM,  of  Massachusetts. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  ask  that  the 
roll  be  called.  We  want  to  go  on  record. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  Secretary  will  call  the  roll  of  the 
Massachusetts  delegation. 

The  Secretary  proceeded  to  call  the  roll  of  the  Massachusetts  dele- 
gation. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  371 

MR.  CHARLES  S.  BAXTER,  of  Massachusetts  (when  his  name  was 
called). — Present,  but  declining  to  vote. 

MR.  GUY  A.  HAM,  of  Massachusetts. — Call  the  name  of  Benjamin  H. 
Anthony,  alternate-at-large. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Mr.  Anthony,  and  he  voted  "Yea." 

When  the  name  of  James  P.  Magenis  was  called,  there  was  no  re- 
sponse, and  his  alternate,  Walter  Ballantyne  was  called,  and  there  was 
no  response. 

When  the  name  of  Arthur  L.  Nason  was  called,  there  was  no  re- 
sponse, and  his  alternate,  Isaac  L.  Roberts,  was  called,  and  there  was  no 
response. 

When  the  name  of  Alvin  G.  Weeks  was  called,  there  was  no  re- 
sponse, and  his  alternate,  Ernest  G.  Adams,  was  called,  and  voted  "Yea." 

When  the  name  of  Embury  P.  Clark  was  called,  there  was  no  re- 
sponse. His  alternate,  J.  Clarence  Hill,  was  then  called,  and  there  was 
no  response.  The  name  of  Alternate  David  F.  Dillon  was  then  called, 
and  he  voted  "Yea." 

When  the  name  of  John  M.  Keyes  was  called,  there  was  no  response, 
and  his  alternate,  Harrie  C.  Hunter,  was  called,  and  there  was  no  re- 
sponse; the  name  of  John  E.  Coolidge,  alternate,  was  then  called,  and 
there  was  no  response. 

When  the  name  of  Smith  M.  Decker  was  called,  there  was  no  re- 
sponse, and  the  name  of  his  alternate,  James  R.  Berwick,  was  called, 
and  he  responded,  "Present,  but  not  voting." 

When  the  name  of  Charles  M.  Cox  was  called,  there  was  no  re- 
sponse, and  his  alternate,  Philip  V.  Mingo,  was  called,  and  he  responded 
that  he  declined  to  vote. 

When  the  name  of  Alfred  Tewksbury  was  called,  there  was  no  re- 
sponse, and  the  name  of  his  alternate,  Daniel  T.  Callahan,  was  called, 
and  he  declined  to  vote. 

When  the  name  of  Loyal  L.  Jenkins  was  called,  there  was  no  re- 
sponse; the  name  of  Saverio  R.  Romano,  his  alternate,  was  called,  and 
he  declined  to  vote. 

\Vhen  the  name  of  Grafton  D.  Gushing  was  called,  there  was  no  re- 
sponse, and  the  name  of  his  alternate,  Martin  Hays,  was  called,  and  he 
voted  "Yea." 

The  Secretary  resumed  and  concluded  the  calling  of  the  roll  of 
Massachusetts. 

MR.  BAXTER,  of  Massachusetts. — I  wish  to  state,  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Convention,  that  every  Roosevelt  man  in  the  Massachusetts  delegation  has 
declined  to  vote. 

The  result  was  announced :     Yeas,  20  (delegates,  16 ;  alternates,  4)  ; 


372 


OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


present  and  not  voting,  14  (delegates,  10;  alternates,  4);  absent,  7  (dele- 
gates, 3;  alternates,  4),  as  follows: 


Delegates. 

Charles   S.    Baxter 

George  W.   Coleman  .... 

Frederick    Fosdick 

Albert   Bushnell   Hart .   .   . 
Octave   A.    LaRiviere. .  .  . 

James  P.   Magenis 

Arthur    L.    Nason 

Alvin   G.   Weeks 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Cummings    C.    Chesney 

Eugene   B.    Blake .   .   . 

2 — Embury   P.   Clark  .   .   . 

William    H.    Feiker .   . 

3— Matthew    J.    Whittall  . 

Lawrence    F.    Kilty .  . 

4 — John   M.    Keyes  .... 

Frederick  P.  Glazie  .  . 

5 — Herbert  L.   Chapman  . 

Smith     M.     Decker .  . 

6 — James  F.  Ingraham,    Jr. 

Isaac    Patch     

7 — Charles  M.  Cox  .... 
Lynn    M.    Ranger .   .   . 

8— John    Read 

George    S.    Lovejoy .   . 

9 — Alfred   Tewksbury     .   . 

Loyal    L.    Jenkins .   .   . 

10— H.  Clifford  Gallagher. 

Guy   A.    Ham 

ii — Grafton  D.  Gushing.   . 

W.  Prentiss  Parker  .  . 

12 — J.    Stearns   Gushing.   . 

George  L.  Barnes  .  .  . 

13 — John  Westall 

Abbott    P.    Smith  .  .  . 
14 — Eldon  B.  Keith.  .  .  . 
Warren  A.    Swift . 


MASSACHUSETTS. 

AT   LARGE. 


Alternates. 

John    D.    Long 

Benjamin    H.    Anthony 

Frank    Vogel 

Joseph  Monette  .  .  . 
Charles  H.  Innes .  .  . 
Walter  Ballantyne  .  . 
Isaac  L.  Roberts  .  .  . 
Ernest  G.  Adams  .  .  . 

Charles  H.  Cutting  .  . 
Frank  H.  Metcalf.  .  . 
J.  Clarence  Hill  .  .  . 
David  F.  Dillon  .... 
Thomas  F.  McGauley.  . 
William  A.  L.  Bazeley 
Harrie  C.  Hunter .  .  . 
John  E.  Coolidge  .  .  . 
Peter  Caddell  .... 
James  R.  Berwick  .  . 
William  W.  Coolidge  . 
Alfred  E.  Lunt .... 
Philip  V.  Mingo  .  .  . 
Ralph  W.  Reeve  .  .  . 

Wilton    B.    Fay 

William  F.  Davis .  .  . 
Daniel  T.  Callahan  .  . 
Saverio  R.  Romanto . 
Frank  B.  Crane  .... 
William  E.  Kingston  . 

Martin    Hays 

Charles    H.    Diggs  .   .   . 

Louis     E.     Flye 

Wendell  Williams  .  .  . 
James  Whitehead  .  .  . 
Charles  T.  Smith  .  .  . 
William  A.  Nye .  .  .  . 
Lyman  P.  Thomas .  . 


16 


The  Secretary  resumed  and  concluded  the  roll  call  of  States,  etc. 
MR.  WALTER  L.  HOUSER,  of  Wisconsin,  rose. 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  373 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — Before  the  announcement  of  the  result, 
the  delegate  from  Wisconsin  (Mr.  Houser)  asks  unanimous  consent  to 
make  a  statement.  Is  there  objection?  There  was  no  objection. 

MR.  WALTER  L.  HOUSER,  of  Wisconsin. — Gentlemen  of  the  Conven- 
tion, on  behalf  of  Senator  La  Follette,  who  will  be  presented  to  this  Con- 
vention as  a  candidate  for  nomination  for  the  Presidency,  I  am  requested 
to  state  that  between  the  adoption  of  the  majority  report  of  the  Committee 
on  Resolutions,  which  becomes  the  platform  of  this  Convention  of  the 
Republican  party,  and  the  time  when  a  nomination  will  be  made,  Senator 
La  Foliette  will  have  no  opportunity  to  examine  the  provisions  of  the 
platform.  He  says  that  in  this  crisis  in  the  life  of  the  Republican  party 
he  is  impelled  by  a  sense  of  obligation  to  request  me  to  state  to  the 
Convention  that,  whether  nominated  or  not,  he  cannot  consent  to  accept 
or  support  a  platform  that  is  not  thoroughly  progressive,  and  which  does 
not  substantially  cover  the  main  provisions  presented  in  the  minority 
report  submitted  by  the  Wisconsin  member  of  the  Committee  on  Reso- 
lutions. (Applause.) 

The  result  of  the  vote  was  announced :  Yeas,  666 ;  nays,  53 ;  present 
and  not  voting,  343 ;  absent,  21,  as  follows : 

Present 

States,    Territories   and                Number  and  not        Ab- 

Election  Districts.                     of  Votes.  Yeas.          Nays.        Voting.       sent. 

Alabama -4  --                                    - 

Arizona 6  6 

Arkansas 1 8  17                  i 

California 26  2                .  .                24 

•Colorado i-  12 

Connecticut 14  14 

Delaware 6  6 

Florida 12  12 

Georgia     28  28 

Idaho     8  8 

Illinois 58  46                 .  .                   9                  3 

Indiana 30  21                 2                 7 

Iowa 26  16                10 

Kansas 20  2                . .                18 

Kentucky     26  26 

Louisiana 20  20                . .                . .                . . 

Maine 12  ..                ..                12 

Maryland 16  10                ..                  6                .. 

Massachusetts 36  20                . .                14 

Michigan 30  22                .  .                  3 

Minnesota 24  . .                . .                24 

Mississippi 20  17                . .                  3 

Missouri 36  36 

Montana 8  8 

Nebraska 16  . .                . .               16 

NeTada 6  6 

New    Hampshire 8  8 


374  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS  OF   THE 

Present. 

States,  Territories  and                 Number  and  not       Ab- 

Election  Districts.                   of  Votes.  Yeas.          Nays.        Voting.       sent. 

New    Mexico     *> 

New  York 90  85                                     5 

North   Carolina 24  6                                   12                  * 

North    Dakota 10  10 

Ohio 48  14                                   34 

Oklahoma 20  4                  i                '5 

Oregon 10  4                  2                  J                  * 

Pennsylvania     76  12                                   63                  i 

Rhode  Island 10  10 

South    Carolina 18  15                                     3 

South    Dakota 10  10 

Tennessee 24  23                                     i 

Texas     40  30                  i                  8                  i 

Utah 8  8 

Vermont 8  6                                     2 

Virginia 24  22                                      i                    i 

Washington 14  14 

West    Virginia     16  ..                ..                16 

Wisconsin 26  . .                26 

Wyoming 6  6 

Alaska 2  2 

District    of    Columbia a  2 

Hawaii 6  6 

Philippine    Islands     2  2 

Porto    Rico i  i 

1078  666  53  343  zi 

So  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Resolutions  was  agreed  to. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  platform  reported  by  the  Com- 
mittee on  Resolutions  is  adopted.  The  next  order  of  business  is  the 
making  up  of  the  National  Committee  and  the  list  of  honorary  vice- 
presidents.  The  Secretary  advises  the  Chair  that  the  names  upon  both 
of  these  lists  have  already  been  handed  to  him,  except  from  the  States 
of  Louisiana,  Massachusetts  and  New  York.  The  delegations  from  those 
States  will  hand  to  the  Secretary  the  names  of  the  persons  in  their  dele- 
gations, chosen  by  their  delegations  to  fill  those  places,  and  the  list  as 
completed  will  be  entered  upon  the  record. 

The  members  of  the  Republican  National  Committee  are  as  follows : 

NATIONAL  COMMITTEE. 

Alabama Prelate  D.   Barker Mobile 

Arizona Ralph    H.    Cameron Flagstaff 

Arkansas Powell   Clayton Eureka    Springs 

California Russ     Avery Los  Angeles       .    . 

Colorado Simon     Guggenheim Denver 

Connecticut Charles    F.    Brooker Ansonia 

Delaware      Coleman  Du  Pont Wilmington 

Florida Henry  S.  Chubb Winter  Park 

Georgia Henry   S.    Jackson Atlanta 

Idaho     John   W.   Hart .  Mena* 


FIFTEENTH  REPUBLICAN  NATIONAL  CONVENTION  375 


Illinois Roy    O.    West Chicago 

Indiana     •  James    P.    Goodrich Winchester 

Iowa •  John    T.    Adams Dubuque 

Kansas Fred  B.   Stanley Wichita 

Kentucky J.    W.    McCullough Owensboro 

Louisiana     •.  Victor     Loisel New   Orleans 

Maine Frederick     Hale Portland 

Maryland     William    P.   Jackson Salisbury 

Massachusetts • 

Michigan Charles    B.    Warren Detroit 

Minnesota I.   A.   Casewell St.  Paul 

Mississippi L.   B.   Moseley Jackson 

Missouri Thomas  K.   Neidringhaus  .   .  St.  Louis 

Montana T.    A.    Marlow Helena 

Nebraska      R.    B.    Howell Omaha 

Nevada H.  B.  Maxson Reno 

New    Hampshire Fred   W.    Estabrook Nashua 

New    Jersey Borden    D.   Whiting Newark 

New   Mexico .  Solomon   Luna Los   Lunas 

New    York Wm.   Barnes,  Jr Albany 

North  Carolina Richmond     Pearson Asheville 

North    Dakota Thomas  F.  Marshall Oakes 

Ohio Walter    F.    Brown Toledo 

Oklahoma .George  C.  Priestly Bartlesville 

Oregon      Ralph     Williams Dallas 

Pennsylvania H.   G.  Wasson Pittsburg 

Rhode    Island Wm.    P.    Sheffield Newport 

South     Carolina Joseph    W.    Tolbert Greenwood 

South    Dakota. Thomas    Thorson Canton 

Tennessee Newell     Sanders  .          ....  Chattanooga 

Texas     H.  F.   McGregor Houston 

Utah C.    E.    Loose Provo 

Vermont John  L.  Lewis North  Troy 

Virginia .'  .  .  Alvah    H.    Martin Norfolk 

Washington S.    A.    Perkins Tacoma 

West    Virginia Wm.   Seymour  Edwards  .   .   .  Charleston 

Wisconsin Alfred    T.    Rogers Madison 

Wyoming George   E.   Pexton Evanston 

Alaska W.   S.   Bayless Juneau 

District    of    Columbia.  .  .  .Chapin    Brown Washington 

Hawaii ..C.  A.   Rice Lihne 

Philippine    Islands Henry    B.    McCoy Manila 

Porto   Rico Sosthenes     Behn San  Juan 

i 

HONORARY    VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

Alabama Simeon  T.   Wright 

Arizona Phoebus   Freudenthal 

Arkansas C.    N.    Rix 

California 

Colorado Irving  Howbert 

Connecticut Francis  J.  Regan 

Delaware Harry   A.    Richardson 

Florida George   W.    Allen 


376  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

HONORARY  VICE-PRESIDENTS — Continued. 

Georgia      Roscoe    Pickett 

Idaho     James  H.   Brady 

Illinois Lawrence  Y.  Sherman 

Indiana James   E.    Watson 

Iowa Lot   Abraham 

Kansas Nelson  Case 

Kentucky      William  J.   Deboe 

Louisiana Frank   C.    Labit 

Maine Gilman    N.    Deering 

Maryland Gist   Blair 

Massachusetts 

Michigan F.    A.    Diggins 

Minnesota R-    A.    Wilkinsin 

Mississippi VV.    W.    Phillips 

Missouri C.   S.   Walden 

Montana Kdward    Donlan 

Nebraska A.    C.   Epperson 

Nevada Hugh  H.   Brown 

New    Hampshire C.    Galeshedd 

New  Jersey John  Rotherham 

New    Mexico     Frank   Winston 

New  York William   H.    Daniels 

North   Carolina James   N.    Williamson 

North    Dakota O.  T.   Tofsrud 

Ohio Philip  M.   Streich 

Oklahoma Thomas   Wall 

Oregon Charles  W.   . \ckerson 

Pennsylvania      Dana  R.  Stephens 

Rhode  Island I'-zra   Dixon 

South    Carolina John   F.  Jones 

South    Dakota .  Isaac    Lincoln 

Tennessee Marion   Richardson 

Texas Harry   Beck 

Utah !!!!!!  C.   R.  Hollingsworth 

Vermont John    A.    Mead 

Virginia Robert  J.   Walker 

Washington S.   A.   Perkins 

West    Virginia     William  P.  Hubbard 

Wisconsin Andrew  K.   Dahl 

Wyoming     John    Berry 

Alaska W.   H.    Hoggatt 

District    of    Columbia William   Calvin   Chase 

Hawaii 

Philippine    Islands J.    M.   Switzer 

Porto    Rico Mateo  Fajardo 

NOMINATION  OF  CANDIDATES  FOR  PRESIDENT. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN.— The  Secretary  will  now  call  the  roll  of 
States  for  the  presentation  of  candidates  for  the  nomination  for  the 
Presidency  of  the  United  States. 

The  Secretary  proceeded  to  call  the  roll  of  States. 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  377 

MR.  WARREN  G.  HARDING,  of  Ohio  (when  the  State  of  Ohio  was 
called). — Mr.  Chairman 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  recognizes  the  gentleman 
from  Ohio. 

NOMINATING    SPEECH    OF     MR.     WARREN     G.     HARDING. 

MR.  HARDING,  of  Ohio. — Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  Con- 
vention. The  first  utterance  of  the  first  Republican  National  Convention 
evei  assembled,  in  resolution  declared  "That  the  maintenance  of  the  prin- 
ciples promulgated  in  the  Declaration  of  Independence  and  embodied  in 
the  federal  constitution  is  essential  to  the  preservation  of  our  republican 
institutions."  Fifty-six  years  have  not  altered  that  truth.  Since  that  seem- 
ingly inspired  utterance,  reflected  in  both  the  name  and  spirit  of  the  party 
under  whose  banners  we  are  met  to-day,  Republican  statesmen,  the  Repub- 
lican party  and  a  Republican  nation  have  written  the  most  glorious  half 
century  of  progress  and  accomplishment  ever  penned  of  any  national 
life.  Glorying  in  the  retrospection,  exalted  by  the  contemplation,  and 
exulting  in  anticipation,  this  great  council  of  a  great  party  will  have  met 
in  vain,  unless  by  utterance  and  by  action  it  consecrates  anew  that  early 
plight  of  faith. 

The  world  has  not  yet  seen  the  perpetuated  republic,  but  ours  gives 
promise,  and  it  has  seemed  to  me  that  an  infinite  hand,  in  the  conscious- 
ness of  divine  strength,  wrote  hope  and  faith  into  our  new  world  begin- 
ning. Through  such  belief,  the  highest  patriotism  re-commits  us  to-day 
to  the  preservation  of  the  heritage  bequeathed  through  the  heroism  and 
sacrifices  and  wisdom  .of  the  fathers. 

Much  of  the  contention  between  disputing  schools  of  American  poli- 
tics has  related  to  means  of  development.  Until  very  recently  there 
was  never  serious  question  about  the  wisdom  of  representative  democracy, 
because  surpassing  results  in  human  advancement  made  it  unassailable. 
Only  once  before  was  the  foundation  of  the  nation  attacked,  and  in  that 
crisis  we  saw  the  dross  in  a  misdirected  and  sectional  passion  for  country 
burned  in  the  crucible  of  fire  and  blood,  and  the  real  gold  turned  to 
shining  stars  in  dear  Old  Glory  again.  Since  then  we  have  witnessed 
the  complete  harmonizing  of  a  greater  national  spirit,  and  gone  steadily 
forward  in  the  concord  of  union,  to  the  upbuilding  of  a  truly  great 
nation,  until  every  American  purpose  is  the  recognized  reflex  of  advanc- 
ing civilization. 

You  have  heard  much  lately  about  the  people's  rule.  Mr.  Chairman 
and  sirs,  the  people's  rule  is  no  new  discovery  to  a  sovereign  American 
people.  Nor  is  a  demagogic  employment  of  the  term  new  to  the  world's 
hearing.  Through  such  demagogic  employment,  centuries  ago,  republics 
tottered  and  fell,  and  republican  liberties  were  lost  in  the  sway  of  em- 
pires in  their  stead.  Human  rights  and  their  defense  are  as  old  as  civili- 


3/8  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

zaticm;  but,  more  important  to  us,  the  founding  American  fathers  wrote 
the  covenant  of  a  people's  rule  into  the  bond  of  national  life,  beyond  all 
erasure  or  abridgement.  The  American  people  literally  began  to  rule  in 
1776,  and  there  has  not  been  and  never  will  be  any  suspension  of  that 
power.  They  ruled  when  they  assented  to  Washington's  declination  of  a 
third  term  of  the  Presidency,  and  when,  with  prophetic  foresight,  he 
admonished  them  "ever  to  be  on  guard  against  the  jealousies  that  come 
of  misrepresentation,  and  tend  to  render  alien  to  one  another  those  who 
ought  to  be  tied  in  fraternal  affection." 

The  people  ruled  when  our  nationality  was  endangered,  and  the 
forever  indissoluble  ties  were  sealed  anew  by  the  master  hand  and  mar- 
tyred life  of  Abraham  Lincoln.  The  people  were  ruling  when  the 
first  complete  Democratic  victory  in  thirty  years  brought  its  blight  of 
adversity,  and  the  same  people  ruled  when  they  transformed  a  crown 
of  thorns  into  a  wreath  of  bloom,  redolent  of  the  perfume  of  restored 
prosperity.  They  also  ruled  when  they  turned  the  wails  of  distress  to  the 
glad  hosannas  of  a  prosperous  people,  inspired  by  William  McKinley. 

The  same  people,  a  plain  people  and  a  sane  people,  ruled  in  the 
awakening  of  the  American  conscience  that  marks  a  new  era  in  our 
national  life.  They  do  rule  and  will  rule,  whenever  they  bear  the  scep- 
tered  duty  of  citizenship,  and  move  in  the  light  of  deliberate  and  knowing 
public  opinion  which  is  the  law  of  enlightened  nations.  They  are  ruling 
to-day,  shielded  by  the  law's  supremacy  and  safeguarded  by  understand- 
ing. And  they  are  ruling  with  unwavering  faith  and  increased  confidence 
in  that  fine  embodiment  of  honesty,  that  fearless  executor  of  the  law, 
that  inspiring  personification  of  courage,  that  matchless  exemplar  of  jus- 
tice, that  glorious  apostle  of  peace  and  amity,  William  Howard  Taft. 

Noting  his  stalwart  greatness  in  the  stress  of  passing  events,  I  believe 
him  the  finest  example  of  lofty  patience  since  the  immortal  Lincoln  bore 
the  scourge  of  vengeful  tongues  without  a  murmur  from  his  noble  heart. 
I  can  best  describe  by  appropriating  and  revising  Tennyson's  Statesman, 
to  make  it  read  : 

"He,  seeing  far  an  end  sublime, 

Contends,  despising  party  rage, 

To  hold  the  spirit  of  the  age 

Against  the  clamor  of  the  time." 

Sirs,  I  have  heard  men  arrogate  to  themselves  the  title  of  "progressive 
Republicans,"  seemingly  forgetting  that  progression  is  the  first  essential 
to  Republican  fellowship.  Progress  was  pronounced  at  the  baptismal 
fount  of  our  party  christening,  and  Republican  progress  is  the  measure  of 
American  progress,  orderly  and  enduring. 

Progression  is  not  proclamation  nor  palaver.  It  is  not  pretense  nor 
play  on  prejudice.  It  is  not  of  personal  pronouns,  nor  perennial  pro- 
nouncement. It  is  not  the  perturbation  of  a  people  passion-wrought,  nor 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  379 

a  promise  proposed.  Progression  is  everlastingly  lifting  the  standards 
that  marked  the  end  of  the  world's  march  yesterday  and  planting  them 
on  new  and  advanced  heights  to-day.  Tested  by  such  a  standard,  Presi- 
dent Taft  is  the  greatest  progressive  of  the  age. 

"Not  he  that  breaks  the  dams,  but  he 
That  through  channels  of  the  state 
Convoys  a  people's  wish,  is  great. 
His  name  is  pure,  his  fame  is  free." 

I  can  believe,  Mr.  Chairman,  that  the  turbulence,  the  unrest,  the  agi- 
tation, this  caldron  on  the  fire  of  our  national  life,  is  directly  a  symptom 
of  human  progress  and  indirectly  a  testimony  to  Republican  accomplish- 
ment. World-wide  as  the  condition  is,  it  is  of  American  inception.  Out 
of  our  opening  of  the  avenues  of  reward  and  opportunity  and  the  higher 
attainments  of  citizenship,  have  come  new  aspirations  and  new  desires. 
Out  of  our  higher  American  standard  of  living  come  the  added  require- 
ments of  life.  This  awakened  spirit  is  not  to  be  paralyzed  by  blind  con- 
tent, for  that  would  halt  our  progress,  but  it  does  greatly  need  the 
blend  of  helpful  appreciation.  The  menace  is  not  in  higher  desires  and 
the  attending  restlessness,  the  peril  lies  in  false  promise  and  misguided 
hope.  Safety  and  security  are  calling  for  the  wholesome  effects  of  po- 
litical sincerity,  for  the  helpful  heralding  of  the  glory  of  American  life 
and  the  offerings  of  unhampered  American  opportunity. 

It  is  needless  to  magnify  and  heedless  to  belittle  the  crisis  of  this 
eventful  year.  Representative  democracy  has  come  to  the  crucial  test, 
and  we  know  that  a  pure  democracy  has  never  been  secure.  Whatever  is 
uttered  now,  through  ambition,  misunderstanding  or  falsehood,  matters 
little  except  to  warn  and  sober  us.  Tested  before  a  watchful  and  jeal- 
ous world  that  has  ever  predicted  the  instability  of  our  sublime  endeavor, 
our  representative  government  bears  the  approval  of  a  century  of  match- 
less experience.  We  have  not  only  wrought  the  most  of  liberty  and  op- 
portunity for  ourselves  at  home,  but  the  firmament  of  the  earth,  Occident 
and  orient,  is  aglow  with  shining  suns  of  new  republics,  sped  to  the  orbs 
of  human  progress  by  the  force  of  our  example.  What  a  sacred  duty, 
then,  to  guard  to-day,  as  ever,  against  any  who  seek  to  undermine  what 
they  can  not  overthrow. 

The  imperious  call  of  a  people's  higher  aspirations  must  be  answered 
in  deliberation,  through  logical  and  lawful  sequence.  There  is  call  for 
cool  and  sober  and  righteous  leadership,  and  need  of  justice  unfailing — 
justice  to  the  least  of  them,  justice  to  the  greatest  men.  If  no  other  mo- 
tive impelled,  in  the  very  name  of  justice,  the  justice  of  a  party,  a  people 
and  a  nation,  the  justice  done  and  justice  hoped  for  to  sustain  our  faith, 
this  Republican  Convention  would  enlist  again  under  the  just  leader- 
ship of  President  Taft. 


380  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

Opposition  to  his  renomination  is  as  nearly  without  precedent  as  it  is 
without  reason  or  excuse.  This  opposition  was  born  of  expediency  and 
fostered  in  mendacity,  but  a  triumphant  Republican  party  is  not  one  of 
expediency.  While  we  have  gone  on  to  successive  victories,  holding  meas- 
ures above  men,  and  principles  above  personalities,  and  aims  above  ani- 
mosities, we  have  been  so  committed  to  abiding  principles  that  every 
utterance  of  fifty  years  is  in  consonance  with  our  declarations  of  to-day. 
The  common  enemy  has  been  the  party  of  expediency,  catching  up 
ephemeral  whims,  paramounting  new  troubles,  bellying  the  sails  of  its 
ship  of  state  to  the  winds  of  new  grievances  or  the  recrudescent  old — 
and  rarely  reached  port.  And,  sirs,  Ohio  proudly  reminds  you  now,  that 
not  one  of  her  six  Republican  sons  who  have  borne  the  party's  national 
banner  ever  trailed  it  in  defeat. 

Let  us  not  forget  that  the  action  of  this  Convention  goes  to  the 
people  for  their  sanction.  The  American  elector  goes  to  the  ballot-box  in 
the  light  of  understanding.  I  can  foresee  his  plain  and  simple  reasoning 
now,  with  one  inevitable  conclusion.  Is  my  country  at  peace?  Yes, 
honorable  peace.  Is  my  country  prosperous?  Yes,  like  no  other  on  the 
earth.  Is  the  law  held  supreme?  Yes,  as  never  before.  Has  my  party 
kept  the  faith?  Yes,  and  more,  for  its  Chief  Executive  wrought  reforma- 
tions and  advancement  the  party  could  not  pledge.  Is  my  government 
honestly  and  economically  administered?  Yes,  the  honesty  is  unques- 
tioned and  the  economies  set  a  new  standard  of  national  administration. 

The  record  of  the  present  Republican  administration  is  not  only  proof 
of  the  conscience  and  the  wisdom  in  our  party  declarations,  and  an  im- 
passable barrier  to  self-repudiation,  but  the  record  is  impregnable  to 
Democratic  assault.  More,  except  for  the  attack  of  disloyalty  in  our  own 
ranks,  inspired  by  pap  rather  than  patriotism,  the  record  would  rate  in 
current  criticism  as  it  will  in  history,  the  marvel  of  progressive  accom- 
plishment in  one  administration. 

(At  this  point  there  was  much  disorder  in  the  hall.) 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  I  beg  the 
delegates  who  have  announced  their  intention  to  sit  mute  in  this  assem- 
blage, to  preserve  their  self-respect  for  whatever  cause  the  future  has 
before  them.  (Applause.)  In  the  party  or  out  of  it,  in  this  party  or  any 
party,  if  you  claim  to  be  its  representatives,  only  the  dignity  that  befits  the 
representatives  you  claim  to  be  can  commend  itself  to  the  American 
people. 

MR.  HARDING,  of  Ohio. — Gentlemen,  I  want  to  point  out,  in  support 
of  my  presentation,  just  a  few  things,  in  broken  sentences.  The  sum  total 
of  things  done  is  far  too  extended  for  detailed  enumeration  now.  The 
modernized,  rationalized  protective  policy,  vital  to  our  continued  indus- 
trial, pre-eminence;  unremitting  warfare  on  greed  and  monopoly,  in  law- 
ful procedure;  conservation  made  real,  in  statutory  and  administrative 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLIC/iN  NATIONAL  CONVENTION  381 

regularity;  a  deficit  turned  to  surplus,  the  corporation  excise  added,  and 
progress  toward  corporate  control;  railroad  regulation  effected  and  car- 
ried to  harmonious  acceptance ;  four  great  measures  specifically  aimed 
to  protect  and  exalt  the  workmen  of  the  land,  and  prove  our  higher 
estimate  of  human  rights;  the  courts  held  unassailable  and  unafraid,  as 
the  bulwark  of  the  weak,  the  shield  of  the  helpless,  the  inhibition  of  the 
strong;  protection  of  American  rights  and  American  lives,  with  new  honor 
to  our  flag,  in  foreign  lands,  amid  calm  and  comforting  assurance,  with- 
out a  violation  of  comity  or  amity;  new  treaties  and  closer  ties  with 
the  great  nations  of  the  earth,  and  the  banner  of  world  peace  unfurled 
to  the  plaudits  of  all  civilization :  these  are  the  loftier  peaks,  glistening 
in  the  sunlight,  above  the  clouds  and  storm.  Grouped  about  them,  only 
a  little  less  in  altitude,  in  a  surpassing  spectacle  of  creative  and  con- 
structive glory,  are  the  approaching  plains,  the  foothills,  the  ascending 
heights,  the  whole  an  unchangeable  and  pride-stirring  testimonial  to  the 
actuality  of  progress  in  one  great  administration,  not  yet  completed. 

With  such  a  stage  setting  let  us  summon  from  the  halls  of  memory 
the  Republican  Presidents  of  this  mighty  people  in  inspiring  review. 
I  know  we  are  concerned  with  to-day  and  with  the  morrow,  but  thank 
God  I  belong  to  a  political  party  that  has  a  justifiable  pride  in  its  glori- 
ous past.  (Applause.)  Our  concern  is  with  the  present  and  the  future, 
but  it  is  good  to  belong  to  a  party  that  can  glory  in  its  past.  During  the 
greater  part  of  more  than  a  half  century  our  party  has  stood  sponsor  for 
this  nation's  weal  or  woe.  There  is  not  a  Republican  who  is  not  proud 
of  the  record  of  that  time  or  of  the  men,  chosen  as  we  choose  to-day,  who 
bore  the  party  banners,  and  wrought  their  lives  and  characters  into  the 
very  fabric  of  our  nationality.  I  can  see  them  now,  colossal  Americans, 
revered  in  recollection,  stalwarts  in  history's  accurate  estimate.  Moved 
by  this  review,  exclusively  and  preciously  American,  I  present  to  you 
a  leader  of  the  composite  of  the  virtues  of  all  these  so  de- 
servedly enshrined  in  our  party  pantheon — William  Howard  Taft — as 
wise  and  patient  as  Abraham  Lincoln,  as  modest  and  dauntless  as  Ulysses 
S.  Grant,  as  temperate  and  peace-loving  as  Rutherford  B.  Hayes,  as 
patriotic  and  intellectual  as  James  A.  Garfield,  as  courtly  and  generous  as 
Chester  A.  Arthur,  as  learned  in  the  law  as  Benjamin  Harrison,  as  sym- 
pathetic and  brave  as  William  McKinley,  as  progressive  as  his  predecessor, 
with  a  moral  stamina,  breadth  of  view  and  sturdy  manhood  all  his  own. 

Rejoicing  in  the  gratifying  record  of  things  done,  confident  of  the 
forward  movement  to  the  things  we  are  pledged  to  do;  mindful  of  the 
spirit  of  the  time  and  the  requirement  of  poise  and  patience ;  glad  of 
the  new  hopes  and  higher  aspirations  of  our  people  and  their  faith  in 
national  progress  and  the  harmony  of  his  purpose  therewith ;  measuring 
his  capacity  by  the  exactions  of  experience;  testing  his  patriotism  by 
every  demand  of  honesty,  courage  and  justice :  knowing  his  devotion  to 


382  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

his  country  and  its  people,  on  behalf  of  Ohio  and  for  one  hundred  millions 
of  advancing  Americans,  I  name  for  renomination  our  great  President, 
William  Howard  Taft. 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN  (when  Pennsylvania  was  called). — Gen- 
tlemen of  the  Convention,  the  Chair  recognizes,  to  second  the  nomination, 
the  gentleman  from  Pennsylvania,  who  was  Postmaster  General  in  the 
Cabinet  of  Benjamin  Harrison,  Mr.  John  Wanamaker.  (  Applause.  > 

SECONDING   SPEECH   OF    MR.    JOHN    WANAMAKER. 

MR.  JOHN  WANAMAKER,  of  Pennsylvania. — Mr.  Chairman,  fathers 
and  brethren  in  the  love  of  country,  I  am  very  proud  to  stand  among  you 
to-day.  It  was  well  worth  while  to  take  three  weeks  and  travel  five 
thousand  miles  to  see  this  company  of  brave  men,  honestly  striving  to  the 
very  last  man  to  do  the  right  as  he  sees  it,  and  to  have  the  honor  of 
standing  here  for  a  few  minutes  to  reinforce  the  nomination  of  William 
H.  Taft  for  President. 

General  Grant  made  mistakes— who  is  infallible? — all  great  men  make 
mistakes.  By  a  second  term  unyoke  Mr.  Taft  from  entanglements  incident 
to  his  first  term  and  do  the  square  deal,  trusting  him  and  four  years 
prosperity. 

Some  of  us  are  only  business  men,  by  and  large.  The  fact  is  that 
there  are  few  of  us  that  haven't  got  something  to  sell,  either  in  native 
talent  or  the  manufactured  article,  skilled  labor  and  unskilled  labor. 

It  is  an  indisputable  fact  that  we  are  all  in  the  same  cart,  and  what- 
ever jolts  the  cart  jolts  us  all.  If  a  sudden  collision  upsets  the  cart, 
somebody  is  sure  to  be  hurt  or  killed  in  the  breakup. 

A  merchant  or  a  manufacturer  is  an  optimist  at  birth  and  by  training. 
He  is  obliged  to  speculate  in  futures.  Therefore,  it  is  not  an  alarmist 
speaking  to  you,  but  one  of  a  great  company  of  business  men  standing 
on  the  top  of  the  mountain  and  looking  over  the  country  and  the  world 
and  watching  the  thermometers  of  trade  and  the  movements  of  commerce. 

The  political  situation  to-day  would  be  immensely  cleared  if  we  could 
burn  the  bundles  of  spite  and  bury  the  tomahawks  of  speech,  study  the 
unrest  of  labor,  and  take  in  a  broad  vision  of  the  country's  future,  if  not 
blocked  by  uncertainties  and  instabilities. 

Despite  the  gusty  weather  in  the  Convention,  I  believe  the  clear  sky 
is  not  far  away.  I  believe  that  the  same  Providence  that  was  on  General 
Washington's  side  when  the  fog  came  down  on  Long  Island  and  hid  his 
troops  from  the  English  is  on  our  side  in  this  fog  that  is  upon  us,  and 
that  it  will  lift  and  give  us  a  clear  day.  (Applause.) 

The  business  men  of  the  United  States  with  whom  I  have  been  in 
contact  for  fifty  years,  while  recognizing  the  three  great  departments  of 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  383 

the  National  Government,  read  also  in  the  Constitution  the  provisions  of 
a  splendid  system  for  the  conduct  of  government  business.  The  brief  I 
hold  for  them  reads  as  follows : 

First. — That  the  government,  under  a  thorough  analysis,  is  a  business 
proposition,  pure  and  simple,  in  the  highest  and  fullest  sense  as  well  as  a 
political  organization,  and  they  are  not  inconsistent  one  with  the  other. 

Second. — That  the  men  and  women  of  the  ninety-six  millions  of  the 
population  constitute  a  company  of  shareholders  who  have  inherited  or 
been  legally  qualified  to  join  in  the  ownership  of  the  original  charter  and 
all  that  the  government  has  acquired  in  property  and  wealth. 

Third. — That  under  the  specifications  of  the  charter  the  qualified 
shareholders  by  a  direct  vote  elect  from  the  people  a  National  Board  of 
Directors,  known  as  the  House  of  Representatives,  and  mediately  a  co- 
ordinate body  known  as  the  Senate.  These  two  bodies  coming  from  the 
people  originate  and  enact  laws,  create  Executive  Departments,  systems 
and  regulations  for  the  works  of  the  government. 

Fourth. — The  Constitution  provides  for  the  election  quadrennially  of 
a  Chief  Executive  as  President,  whose  duty  is  not  to  originate  legislation, 
but  to  superintend  and  supervise  it  with  powers  of  veto  of  new  laws. 
It  is  his  duty  to  appoint,  with  the  approval  of  the  Senate,  the  heads  of 
departments,  oversee  their  work,  and  annually  report  facts,  figures  and 
condition  to  the  Board  of  Directors  for  transmission  to  the  Shareholders. 

The  preliminary  step  is  this  all-important  Convention,  requiring  it  to 
select  and  nominate  to  the  Shareholders  the  best  man  for  them  to  vote 
into  the  Presidency  and  Vice-Presidency. 

It  is  scarcely  possible  that  the  makers  of  the  Constitution  realized 
the  breadth,  scope  and  practicability  of  this  business  plan. 

This  charter — the  greatest  of  all  charters — the  heritage  of  our  fathers, 
is  the  most  valuable  possession  of  the  shareholding  people.  It  is  a  work- 
able charter,  as  proven  by  its  successful  operation  for  over  a  century. 

It  is  an  inexhaustible  mine  of  wealth  of  more  value  than  all  the 
gold  of  the  United  States.  The  developments  of  good  for  our  great 
country  under  this  system  have  scarcely  begun. 

It  would  be  madness  to  throw  away  what  has  been  well  tested  and 
trust  ourselves  to  future  miracles. 

Mere  thinking  in  large  totals,  or  even  paper  programs  of  words, 
without  blueprints  drawn  to  scale  for  the  future  upbuilding  of  our  country, 
is  neither  businesslike  nor  good  statesmanship.  We  must  widen  the  stage 
and  stand  together  against  anarchy  and  experiment.  The  man  who  seeks 
to  inaugurate  the  new  must  be  considered,  but  the  man  who  would  hold 
the  old  without  letting  it  sag,  until  the  new  is  perfected,  must  also  be 
considered.  To  cut  the  roots  of  an  old,  growing,  healthy  tree  in  the 
making  of  a  road,  is  nine  times  out  of  ten  to  lose  the  tree,  which  a  half 
century  may  not  be  able  to  replace. 


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Were  your  speaker  in  a  Court  of  Justice,  sworn  to  testify  to  the  best 
of  his  knowledge  and  belief,  he  would  say  that  of  personal  knowledge 
his  testimony  would  be  that  there  are  tens  of  thousands  of  long-headed 
business  men  who,  within  the  last  three  months  have  refused  to  invest 
capital  in  future  enterprises,  because  of  the  fear  that  this  unfinished 
year  and  the  next  will  be  worse  than  1907,  when  the  panic  was  purely 
monetary,  because  of  the  propositions  so  widely  published  abroad  of  a 
new  order  of  things  at  hand,  invading  the  Constitution,  upsetting  the 
Courts,  turning  over  to  Town  Meetings  the  reversal  of  laws,  and  the 
undoing  of  the  interpreters  of  law  at  will  upon  an  excited  popular  cry. 

National  Committee  and  Convention  Platforms  cannot  do  everything. 
Every  man  of  us  has  to  be  a  man,  and  he  has  to  live  in  himself  and 
with  himself.  Now  is  the  time  to  do  some  deep  thinking  if  we  are 
going  to  have  any  respect  for  ourselves  in  the  future.  The  best  dread- 
nought of  a  battleship  to  outride  future  storms  and  avoid  rocks  of 
regrets  will  be  an  approving  conscience. 

American  patriotism  must  surely  rise  at  this  time  to  a  higher  level 
than  the  blind  and  heedless  following  of  any  individual  or  of  any  indi- 
vidual's policy,  however  brilliant  such  may  be. 

The  issues  before  us  require  the  reaffirmation  of  principles  that  cen- 
turies of  experience  have  proven  to  be  safe  and  the  refusal  to  do  the 
things  which  are  visionary,  experimental  and  dangerous. 

The  republic  cannot  be  killed,  but  it  can  be  brought  to  a  standstill. 
Millions  of  workers  must  eat  less  when  they  have  less  to  spend.  Their 
savings  must  come  out  of  the  savings  funds  and  paying  for  their  little 
homes  must  be  suspended.  If  we  sow  the  wind,  we  must  reap  the  whirl- 
wind. 

Speaking  for  hundreds  of  thousands  of  business  men,  who  have  con- 
fidence in  William  H.  Taft,  who  have  maintained  competitive  businesses 
and  remained  independent  of  trusts,  we  second  the  nomination  of  Wil- 
liam H.  Taft,  believing  that  business  and  labor  require  his  leadership. 

First — That  radical  changes  in  the  administration  mean  further  de- 
pression and  losses  to  labor. 

Second — That  uncertainty  and  instability  in  the  conduct  of  public 
affairs  create  distrust  and  demoralization  of  business. 

William  H.  Taft,  in  my  opinion,  can  much  more  quickly  than  any 
other  man  in  sight  reduce  the  acreage  of  confusions  and  delusions  and 
relieve  labor  and  business  from  the  uncertainty  and  instability  in  the 
conduct  of  public  affairs,  which  are  the  main  cause  of  bad  times. 

Let  us  have  peace  and  all  business  interests  will  take  care  of  them- 
selves. 

Under  the  leadership  of  William  H.  Taft,  whose  nomination  I  again 
second,  let  us  hail  a  restoration  of  faith  in  the  Constitution.  Let  us  have 


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tinder  him  a  new  baptism  of  reverence  for  the  law.     (Applause.) 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN  (when  New  York  was  called). — The  Chan- 
recognizes  Mr.  Nicholas  Murray  Butler,  of  New  York.  (Applause.) 

SECONDING   SPEECH   OF   MR.    NICHOLAS    MURRAY   BUTLER. 

MR.  NICHOLAS  MURRAY  BUTLER,  of  New  York. — Mr.  Chairman :  IB 
compliance  with  the  urgent  request  of  the  Republican  State  Convention 
of  New  York,  a  State  with  an  army  of  Republican  voters  whose  numbers 
are  rapidly  approaching  the  mark  of  one  million,  and  in  response  to  my 
own  sense  of  political  justice,  it  is  my  privilege  to  second  the  nomination 
of  William  Howard  Taft,  of  Ohio.  (Applause.)  Let  me  speak  as  a 
lifelong  Republican  to  my  fellow  Republicans  of  every  type  of  party 
creed,  of  every  point  of  view,  and  from  whatsoever  part  of  this  great 
nation  they  come,  whether  from  the  new  and  welcome  Arizona  and  New 
Mexico,  or  from  the  great  commonwealth  of  Wisconsin,  whose  progress 
we  watch  with  so  much  pride,  or  away  across  to  the  rock-ribbed  State  of 
Maine,  that  gave  us  the  matchless  leadership  of  Elaine  and  the  parlia- 
mentary leadership  of  Reed.  (Applause.) 

I  have  on  my  lips  no  word  of  bitterness  or  criticism  for  any  Re- 
publican who  aspires  to  his  party  leadership,  or  who  has  rendered  his 
party  service.  I  have  in  my  heart  no  unkind  or  ungenerous  thought 
toward  any  man  who  aspires  to  the  nomination  from  this  Convention ;  but 
I  do  say  that  we  are  at  the  end  of  sixteen  years  of  the  most  extraordi- 
nary, the  most  progressive,  the  most  epoch-making  political  and  moral 
change  that  our  country  has  ever  seen,  and  we  want  it  to  go  on.  We 
gladly  gave  renomination  to  those  who  began  this  epoch.  We  ask  a 
renomination  for  him  who  is  now  our  leader.  Who  is  the  one  man  that, 
through  all  this  period  of  sixteen  years,  has  been  associated  with  this 
great  movement ;  who  was  taken  from  his  place  upon  the  Federal  bench 
by  William  McKinley  and  sent  out  as  our  nation's  trustee  for  the  Filipino 
people;  who  led  us  through  that  difficult  and  novel  period  of  colonial 
government  without  scandal  and  with  highest  honor ;  who  was  brought 
back  into  the  Cabinet  of  President  Roosevelt  to  take  charge  of  these 
great  administrative  problems  that  had  been  confided  to  the  War  De- 
partment, and  who  has  been  President  of  the  United  States  while  there 
have  been  written  into  history  these  great,  marvelous  enactments  which 
were  recited  on  Tuesday  from  the  eloquent  lips  of  our  Chairman,  and 
referred  to  to-day  in  the  platform  you  have  adopted ;  who  has  been  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States,  and  has  guided  us  during  that  time.  (Ap- 
plause.) 

My  fellow  Republicans,  every  sixteen  years  there  comes  a  crisis  in 
the  history  of  the  Republican  party.  We  had  such  a  crisis  in  1896.  Wt 
had  then  to  face  a  great  question  of  principle,  and  we  were  told  that  we 


386  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

were  ruined.  We  faced  it,  and  went  to  one  of  the  greatest  victories  our 
party  ever  achieved. 

Sixteen  years  earlier  we  had  a  great  crisis,  in  the  Convention  of  1880. 
A  new  issue  was  presented  to  the  party.  Personal  struggles  were  deep 
and  severe.  We  surmounted  that  crisis,  and  remained  in  control  of  the 
nation. 

Sixteen  years  earlier,  in  1864,  there  came  a  crisis.  Leading  Republi- 
cans said  the  party  was  ruined,  that  we  could  not  possibly  win,  and  when 
the  campaign  was  well  under  way  no  less  a  man  than  Horace  Greeley 
wrote  that  Abraham  Lincoln  could  not  possibly  be  elected,  that  he  was 
already  defeated.  What  happened  when  the  polls  closed  in  November? 

My  friends,  do  not  underestimate  the  thought,  the  reflection,  the 
moral  power  of  these  American  people  when  they  sit  down  and  consider 
patient,  zealous,  effective  service.  (Applause.)  Remember  what  James 
A.  Garfield  told  us  thirty-two  years  ago,  over  on  the  lakeside.  He  said 
to  us  then  that  Presidents  are  not  elected  in  these  crowded  halls,  with 
cheering  thousands.  They  are  elected  by  the  fireside  in  November,  when 
the  thoughtful  Republican  has  studied  the  issues,  when  he  has  weighed 
the  evidence,  when  he  has  made  up  his  mind  how  he  shall  vote. 

I  second  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Taft     (Applause.) 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN  (when  the  State  of  Wisconsin  was 
called). — The  Chair  recognizes  Mr.  Michael  B.  Olbrich,  of  Wisconsin. 

NOMINATING    SPEECH    OF    MR.    MICHAEL    B.    OLBRICH. 

MR.  MICHAEL  B.  OLBRICH,  of  Wisconsin.— Delegates  to  the  Fifteenth 
National  Republican  Convention:  The  Republican  party  is  face  to  face 
with  the  gravest  crisis  in  its  history.  There  is  more  at  stake  in  this  Con- 
vention than  the  rise  or  fall  of  individual  ambition.  (Applause.)  We 
are  confronted  with  no  mere  matter  of  temporary  party  success  or  de- 
feat, no  question  of  winning  or  losing  a  single  election.  The  life  of  the 
party  is  in  the  balance. 

Raised  up  by  God  to  work  the  freedom  of  the  black  man  in  America, 
a  nation  asks  to-day  shall  that  God-given  instrument  be  used  to  further 
rivet  or  burst  another  bondage  that  threatens  all  men,  black  and  white. 
African  slavery  was  open,  obvious,  brutal,  crude,  shocking  to  the  moral 
sense.  Now  we  are  threatened  with  an  industrial  despotism  insidious, 
intangible,  but  infinitely  menacing,  beside  which  the  banished  slavery  was 
small  and  sectional  in  scope.  (Applause.) 

Up  the  trunk  of  legitimate  industry  in  America,  like  some  noisome 
parasitic  tropic  growth,  the  tightening  coil  of  privilege  has  wound  its 
way,  extending  itself  into  every  branch  of  human  endeavor,  strangling 
industrial  and  commercial  freedom,  shutting  out  the  light  of  hope  from 
the  sons  of  men,  poisoning  the  very  air  of  liberty.  From  small  begin- 
nings it  has  grown  and  grown,  until  it  is  so  interlaced  with  lawful  enter- 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  387 

prise  that  the  clearest  eye  alone  can  detect  the  bastard  growth,  so  inter- 
woven into  the  delicate  structure  of  our  business  life  that  it  cannot  be 
jerked  out  by  one  momentary  spasm.  (Applause.)  Tariff  favoritism, 
control  of  natural  resources,  monopoly  in  transportation,  manufacturing, 
money  and  credit,  all  are  but  tentacles  of  its  stifling  power.  (Applause.) 
This  monstrous  growth  will  succumb  to  the  tilting  of  no  quixotic  lance. 
The  lightning  of  invective  will  not  wither  it,  nor  the  thunder  of  denuncia- 
tion lay  it  low.  No  brandishing  of  battle-axes  in  Chinese  warfare  will 
hasten  its  decay.  No  mere  attack  on  symptoms  will  work  a  cure.  The 
snipping  of  a  tendril  here  and  a  tendril  there  will  not  retard  its  growth. 
It  can  be  reached  alone  by  the  keen  blade  of  well-directed  law,  scientifi- 
cally laid  to  its  root.  (Applause.)  If  the  republic  would  endure  except 
in  name  alone,  not  only  must  its  further  growth  be  stopped,  but  the 
awful  thing  itself  be  eradicated  and  destroyed. 

For,  not  content  with  its  control  of  industry  hand  in  hand,  as  a  nec- 
sary  part  of  its  development,  has  gone  a  like  intrusion  into  our  political 
and  governmental  life.  Its  representatives  sit  upon  the  bench  and  in  our 
legislative  halls.  They  are  in  possession  of  seats  on  this  Convention  floor. 
Congresses  and  Cabinets  and  Courts  have  hearkened  to  its  command.  It 
has  "corrupted  governments,  defied  constitutions  and  in  collusion  with 
faithless  representatives  of  the  people  has  sought  to  impair  the  legal 
foundation  of  civilization  itself." 

The  challenge  which  monopoly  thus  entrenched  throws  down  and  the 
acceptance  of  the  gage  of  battle  by  the  American  people  make  up  the 
issue  of  the  coming  campaign.  (Applause.)  Shall  the  men  and  women 
of  this  nation  in  the  aggregate  actually  and  effectively  control  their  gov- 
ernment? Shall  they,  "who  bear  the  coarse  drudgery  of  the  world,"  as 
well  as  the  "eminent  few"  who  sit  in  its  high  places,  have  a  proportionate 
voice  in  determining  their  condition  of  life  and  the  destiny  of  this  na- 
tion? This  is  no  strange,  wild  doctrine  that  has  caught  the  momentary 
gust  of  a  rabble's  favor — it  is  but  the  Declaration  of  Independence  revivi- 
fied, born  anew.  (Applause.) 

Above  the  clash  of  contending  personal  ambition,  above  the  rumble 
of  the  steam  roller,  the  clamor  of  the  band  wagon,  the  bustle  of  the 
political  huckster,  there  comes  to  this  Convention  the  voice  of  an  awak- 
ened people,  that  will  not  be  denied,  demanding  that  further  encroach- 
ment by  the  few  upon  the  rights  of  the  many  be  stopped.  (Applause.) 
Asking  of  this  Convention,  under  penalty  of  death  for  failure,  an  heroic 
leadership  with  vision  clear  enough  to  see  the  menace  to  free  institu- 
tions, brave  enough  and  strong  enough  to  check  the  onsweeping  march  of 
corporate  aggression.  They  will  be  content  with  no  sham  profession  of 
loyalty.  No  chanting  of  a  time-worn  creed  will  still  their  cry.  Their 
wishes  scorned  and  scorned  they  are  in  deadly  earnest  now.  They  can 
not  be  misled  again.  (Applause.)  No  party  dare  juggle  with  their  just 


388  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

demands  or  trifle  with  their  will.  The  time  has  gone  by  when  they  wiH 
be  satisfied  with  a  sop  of  high-sounding  ambiguity  in  a  political  platform, 
or  strident  lip  service  and  trumpeting  of  loud  allegiance  by  a  nominee. 
They  look  beyond  the  platform  and  seek  assurance  of  sincerity,  some 
substantial  earnest  of  performance  in  the  character  and  the  record  of  the 
candidate.  (Applause.) 

The  Republicans  of  the  sanely  conservative  commonwealth  of  Wis- 
consin, unique  in  the  sisterhood  of  States,  united  and  unanimous  in  sup- 
port of  a  distinguished  son,  bid  me  present  to  this  Convention  the  name 
La  Follette.  (Applause.)  That  name  and  that  alone  supplies  the  guar- 
antee, without  which  the  American  people  will  accept  no  party's  promise 
to  perform.  Twice  before  you  set  the  man  in  the  pillory  and  sought  to 
crucify  his  ideas.  But  the  fiery  words  of  prophecy  spoken  from  this 
platform  four  years  ago  have  been  fulfilled,  and  what  you  then  derided 
as  socialistic  and  populistic  you  recognize  as  true  conservatism  to-day, 
and  the  candidacy  of  the  man  you  told  to  take  his  Democratic  "dope" 
and  go  to  Denver  furnishes  your  one  salvation  from  defeat  in  dishonor 
and  disgrace.  (Applause.) 

For  his  professions  have  received  the  priceless  consecration  of  actual 
performance.  From  a  feudatory  of  special  privilege  he  recreated  Wis- 
consin into  a  free  State.  Through  a  jungle  of  morass  and  marsh  that 
gave  no  surety  of  footing  and  seemed  to  give  no  hope  of  passage  where 
rose  the  foul  miasma  of  corruption  for  ten  long,  black  and  purgatorial 
years,  set  upon  by  slinking  beasts,  ambushed  and  beaten  and  battered 
down,  he  kept  a  course  that  knew  but  a  single  compass.  Out  of  the 
agony  and  travail  of  that  dark  and  awful  pilgrimage  was  born  the  pro- 
gressive movement  in  America.  Primary  elections,  equal  taxation  of 
railroads  and  other  corporate  wealth,  effective  regulation  of  the  rates 
and  service  of  transportation  and  public  utilities,  civil  service  reform, 
insurance  against  industrial  accident  forever  monument  his  line  of  march. 

In  Wisconsin  the  "goal  of  freedom's  race,  baffled  oft,  but  ever  won," 
has  been  achieved.  Upon  her  statute  books  were  written  for  the  first  time 
in  America  laws  that  insured  a  fairer  apportionment  of  the  "race  herit- 
age of  civilization"  that  embodied  the  best  thought  of  the  best  brains  in 
the  world.  Doctrines  given  timid  voice  by  hesitant  idealists  were  made 
by  his  constructive  statesmanship  into  effective  instruments  for  lifting 
from  the  backs  of  overburdened  millions  the  heavy  weight  of  injustice, 
inequality  and  wrong.  (Applause.) 

Six  years  ago,  hazed  and  belittled  and  lampooned,  he  stood  in  the 
American  Senate,  the  lone  champion  of  the  invested  citadel  of  public 
right.  Single-handed  he  maintained  its  defense  against  open  assault 
and  covert  subterfuge.  Again  and  again  he  met  the  charge  of  the  black 
cavalry  of  privilege,  and  they  recoiled  before  the  stroke  of  his  uncoa- 
quered  sword.  One  by  one  fair  seeming  measures  introduced  under  the 


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specious  guise  of  dealing  with  Indian  coal  lands,  reforming  the  currency, 
revising  the  tariff,  regulating  railway  rates,  establishing  a  commerce  court 
or  enacting  reciprocity  with  Canada,  by  the  touch  of  his  Ithurial  spear 
stood  revealed  in  all  their  hideous  nakedness,  poised  and  potent  with 
menace,  hissing  with  a  thousand  forked  serpents'  tongues.  (Applause.) 

They  who  scoffed  have  come  to  listen  when  he  speaks.  He  is  no 
mere  jingler  of  euphonious  words,  no  conjurer  of  fantastic  phrases.  In 
an  orderly  progression  his  speeches  move  to  the  conclusions  of  an  inex- 
orable logic.  Devoid  of  poetry  or  classical  allusion,  they  are  crammed 
with  facts  and  statistics.  But  they  are  facts,  vitalized  statistics  dramatized 
into  soul-moving  significance,  ordered  into  an  irresistible  phalanx,  along 
whose  lines  there  glisten  everywhere  the  bayonets  of  truth,  that  march 
to  the  inspiring  music  of  hope  for  all  mankind. 

Step  by  step,  no  inch  uncontested,  undeterred  by  slander,  ridicule, 
abuse,  he  fought  along  the  way  of  dauntless  self-reliance,  till  there  came 
first  one  recruit  and  then  another,  and  then  they  came  by  scores,  and 
to-day  a  mighty  army  is  assembled  whose  camp  is  filled  with  sounds  of 
preparation  for  offensive  warfare  with  all  in  readiness  to  march  forth 
upon  the  morrow  to  retake  the  land  of  our  inheritance,  too  long  the 
spoilers'  prey.  (Applause.) 

Now,  think  you  that  the  man  who  cut  the  way  through  the  jungle  and 
the  wilderness  can  be  taken  up  on  a  high  mountain  and  bidden  "look  upon 
the  promised  land  and  die?"  Think  you  that  he  who  volunteered  as 
leader  of  a  forlorn  hope  and  by  the  force  of  his  genius  transformed  a 
political  awkward  squad  into  a  conquering  army  can  be  cast  aside?  Think 
you  that  we  will  strike  our  colors,  sound  a  retreat  all  along  the  line,  and 
march  back  with  abject  and  servile  tread  into  the  thraldom  of  the  Pha- 
raohs of  monopoly? 

Humanity  calling  for  leadership  in  this  new  crusade  thunders  back 
the  answer,  "No !" 

She  asks  that  this  Convention  name  as  its  candidate  a  representative 
of  the  State  that  gave  the  grand  old  Republican  party  birth,  and  where, 
praise  God,  has  been  born  a  grander  new  Republican  party.  In  him  the 
spirit  of  democracy  has  been  nurtured  until  it  has  become  fibre  of  his 
fibre,  brain  of  his  brain,  soul  of  his  soul.  He  comes  into  this  Conven- 
tion the  representative  of  no  class,  the  agent  of  no  interest,  the  deputy  of 
no  principal.  He  is  no  man's  man.  He  has  no  combination  with  any  can- 
didate, no  back  stairs  alliance  with  the  treasury  of  privilege.  He  voices 
the  hope,  the  aspiration,  the  unconquerable  determination  of  the  common 
people  of  America  to  repossess  their  government.  (Applause.) 

Name  him  as  our  candidate,  and  no  flaming  interrogation  point  will 
blaze  athwart  our  path  by  night,  no  cloud  of  doubt  envelope  our  line  of 
march  by  day.  But  with  countenances  alight  with  confidence  in  his  lead- 
ership, we  shall  march  along  the  great  highway  of  truth  into  that  new 


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republic  wherein  "Are  justice  and  happiness  and  joy  in  widest  commonalty 
spread,"  wherein  each  man  is  the  "full  heir  of  all  the  ages  in  full  en- 
joyment of  the  long  results  of  time."  His  inspired  eye,  unobscured  by 
the  mist  of  personal  ambition,  first  caught  the  vision  of  that  glorious 
realm,  and  his  thought  and  influence,  whether  in  public  office  or  not, 
whether  this  Convention  vote  him  up  or  down,  will  re-make  this  nation 
in  the  light  of  that  vision,  will  re-dedicate  her  government  to  humanity. 
(Applause.) 

Name  him  your  candidate,  and  in  November  next  the  American  peo- 
ple will  acclaim  him  theirs  by  the  mightiest  majority  in  history,  and  the 
twenty-eighth  President  of  the  United  States  will  be  Robert  Marion 
La  Follette,  of  Wisconsin.  (Applause.) 

MR.  JOHN  J.  ELAINE,  of  Wisconsin. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  rise  to  a  point 
of  order. 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN  (when  North  Dakota  was  called). — The 
Chair  recognizes  Mr.  Robert  M.  Pollock,  of  North  Dakota.  (Applause.) 

SECONDING  SPEECH  OF  MR.  ROBERT  M.  POLLOCK. 

MR.  ROBERT  M.  POLLOCK,  of  North  Dakota. — Mr  Chairman  and  gen- 
tlemen of  the  Convention:  In  behalf  of  the  delegation  from  North 
Dakota  I  have  the  honor  to  second  the  nomination  of  Robert  M.  La- 
Follette.  (Applause.) 

Our  State  of  North  Dakota  enjoys  the  distinction  of  being  the 
first  in  the  Union  to  exercise  the  preferential  primary  for  nomination  of 
a  candidate  for  President 

The  law  providing  therefor  was  passed  by  a  Progressive  Republican 
Legislature  and  embodied  all  the  safeguards  of  general  election  laws. 

At  that  election  Robert  M.  LaFollette  received  a  splendid  majority. 

Following  the  mandate  of  the  voters  so  expressed,  and  cheerfully 
from  personal  choice,  my  colleagues  and  myself  here  support  Robert  M. 
LaFollette.  (Applause.) 

The  people  of  my  own  State,  and  the  plain,  common  people  through- 
out this  broad  land,  have  watched  with  interest  his  career. 

They  recognize  his  high  attainments  as  a  student  and  scholar,  his 
unflagging  industry  in  his  every  pursuit,  his  undaunted  courage,  his  un- 
questioned honesty  in  private  and  in  public  life,  his  splendid  manhood. 

They  know  what  he  can  do  by  what  he  has  accomplished,  what  he 
will  do  by  what  he  has  already  done. 

He  can  do  for  all  of  the  States  what  he  has  done  for  his  own 
State. 

Because  he  is  skilled  in  the  arts  of  government,  they  call  him  a 
statesman.  Because  he  has  fought  the  battles  of  his  people  in  his  own 
State  and  of  all  the  people,  in  the  halls  of  Congress  and  elsewhere,  vali- 


FIFTEENTH  REPUBLICAN  NATIONAL  CONVENTION  391 

antly  and  well,  they  call  him  a  patriot  And  because  he  has  fought 
those  battles  against  great  odds,  frequently  single-handed  atfd  •  alone, 
under  circumstances  most  discouraging,  involving  the  greatest  of  per- 
sonal sacrifices,  sometimes  losing,  sometimes  winning,  but  all  the  time 
fighting  on  and  on  until  success  was  attained  for  the  cause  for  which 
he  fought,  they  call  him  a  hero. 

He  knows  no  fear;  he  is  unafraid.  He  knows  not  defeat;  he  never 
surrenders.  He  knows  no  compromise  with  wrong  for  temporary  ad- 
vantage. He  never  combines  for  party  or  personal  gain  under  ques- 
tionable circumstances.  He  has  always  been  right  (Applause.) 

With  the  policies  and  principles  for  which  Robert  M.  LaFollette 
stands,  the  Republican  party,  with  him  as  the  nominee  of  this  Conven- 
tion, will  not  only  be  victorious  at  the  polls,  but  will  be  rich  in  its  future 
achievements  and  will  perpetuate  itself  in  a  measure  not  otherwise  to  be 
attained.  (Applause.) 

The  Secretary  resumed  and  concluded  the  calling  of  the  roll  of 
States,  etc. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  has  learned  that  Senator 
W.  O.  Bradley,  of  Kentucky,  who  was  to  have  seconded  the  nomination 
of  Mr.  Taft,  is  unable  to  do  so  on  account  of  ill  health,  and  that  Mr. 
W.  F.  Penn,  of  Georgia,  who  was  also  to  have  seconded  the  nomination, 
has  considerately  refrained  from  doing  so  on  account  of  the  lateness  of 
the  hour. 

The  roll  will  now  be  called  for  the  votes  of  delegates  of  the  Con- 
vention for  a  candidate  for  the  nomination  for  President  of  the  United 
States. 

VOTE  FOR  CANDIDATE  FOR  PRESIDENT. 

The  Secretary  proceeded  to  call  the  roll  of  States,  etc. 

MR.  CHESTER  H.  ROWELL,  of  California  (when  California  was 
called). — Mr.  Chairman,  California  declines  to  vote. 

MR.  E.  H.  TRYON,  of  California. — Mr.  Chairman,  California  casts 
two  votes  for  Taft. 

MR.  CHARLES  S.  DENEEN,  of  Illinois  (when  Illinois  was  called). — 
Mr.  Chairman,  it  is  impossible  to  get  the  exact  vote  of  our  State.  A 
number  of  the  delegates  desire  to  have  the  vote  challenged.  I  request 
that  the  roll  of  the  Illinois  delegation  be  called,  with  this  preliminary 
statement:  The  great  majority  of  our  delegates  feel  that  in  view 
of  the  provisions  of  the  primary  law  of  our  State,  recently  enacted, 
we  have  no  power  to  cancel  our  instructions,  and  will  vote  for  Theodore 
Roosevelt.  (Applause.) 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  names  of  the  Illinois  delegation 
will  be  called  by  the  Secretary. 

The  Secretary  having  called  the  roll  of  the  Illinois  delegation,  the 


392 


OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


result  was  announced:     Taft  2,  Roosevelt  53,  present  and  not  voting  t, 
absent  1,  as  follows: 


ILLINOIS. 

AT      LARGE. 


Dt If gates. 


Charles    S..   Deneen 

Roy    O.    West 

B.   A.   Eckhart 

Chauncey  Dewey 

L.    Y.    Sherman 

Robert  D.   Clark 

L.  L.  Emmerson 

W.    A.    Rosenfield 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Francis  P.   Brad) 

Martin   B.    Madden 

a — John   J.    Hanberg 

Isaac    N.    Powell 

3— William   H.    Weber 

Charles    W.    Vail 

4 — Thomas  J.  Healy 

Albert   C.    Heiser 

5 — Charles   J.    Happell 

William  J.  Cooke 

6 — Homer  K.  Galpin 

Allen   S.    Ray 

7 — Abel     Davis 

D.     A.     Campbell 

8 — John   F.   Devine   (By  August  Wilhelm,  alternate) 

Isidore  H.  Himes 

9 — Fred    W.    Uphani 

R.  R.   McCormick 

10 — James   Pease 

John  E.  Wilder 

1 1 — Ira  C.  Copley 

John    Lambert 

la — Fred.   E.   Sterling 

H.   W.  Johnson 

13 — James  A.   Cowley 

J.  T.  Williams 

14 — Frank  G.   Allen 

William  J.  Graham 

5 — Harry   E.    Brown 

Clarence  E.   Sniveley 

16 — Edward  N.  Woodruff 

!          Cairo     A.     Trimble 

17 — G.  J.  Johnson 

Frank    B.    Stitt . 

i8-~John    L.    Hamilton 


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393 


ILLINOIS.—  Continued. 


13    04 

*    §  I 


Delegates. 

Len  Small 

19 — W.  L.  Shellabarger  (By  Jno.  H.  Chadwick,  alternate) 

Elim  J.  Hawbaker 

go — J.  A.  Glenn 

W.  W.  Watson 

*i — Logan  Hay 

William  H.  Provine 

22— Edward  E.  Miller 

Henry  J.  Schmidt 

23 — William  F.  Bundy 

Aden  Knoph  (By  C.  O.  Harper,  alternate) 

24 — Randolph  Smith 

James  B.  Barker 

25 — Philip  H.  Eisenmayer 

Walter    Wood     . 


The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll  of  States,  etc. 

MR.  PHILLIPS  LEE  GOLDSBOROUGH,  of  Maryland  (when  the  State  of 
Maryland  was  called). — Mr.  Chairman,  we  have  in  Maryland  a  State- 
wide preferential  primary  law.  Some  of  the  delegates  from  our  State 
desire  to  vote,  and  some  of  the  others  desire  not  to  vote.  I  ask  for  a 
roll  call  of  that  delegation. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  Secretary  will  call  the  roll  of  the 
Maryland  delegation. 

The  Secretary  having  called  the  roll  of  the  Maryland  delegation, 
the  result  was  announced:  Roosevelt  9,  Taft  1,  present  and  not  voting 
5,  absent  1,  as  follows : 

MARYLAND. 

AT     LARGE. 


Delegates. 

Phillips    Lee    Goldsborough 

William    T.    Warburton 

Edw.    C.    Carrington,    Jr 

George  L.  Wellington   (By  Gist  Blair,  alternate) 
DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Albert    G.    Tower 

William  B.  Tilghman 


394  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

MARYLAND.— Continued. 


I    Is 

•£.  o       2  > 

Delegates.  £  |       £ 

a — Robert    Garrett i 

John    H.    Cunningham i 

3 — Alfred   A.    Moreland . .  i 

Louis   E.   Melis . .  i 

4— Theodore  P,  Weis   (By  Wm.   G.  Albrecht,  alternate)       ..  . .  i 

Joseph    P.    Evans ..  i 

5 — Adrian    Posey i 

R.     N.     Ryan i 

6 — S.    K.    Jones I 

Galen  L.  Tail i 


The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll  of  States,  etc. 

MR.  GEORGE  L.  BARNES,  of  Massachusetts  (when  Massachusetts  was 
called). — Massachusetts  votes  18  for  Taft. 

MR.  CHARLES  S.  BAXTER,  of  Massachusetts — And  eighteen  present 
but  not  voting. 

MR.  GUY  A.  HAM,  of  Massachusetts. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  challenge  the 
vote  of  Massachusetts,  and  ask  for  a  verification  by  roll  call. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  vote  of  Massachusetts  being  chal- 
lenged, the  roll  will  be  called. 

The  Secretary  proceeded  to  Ncall  the  roll  of  the  Massachusetts  dele- 
gation. 

MR.  CHARLES  S.  BAXTER,  of  Massachusetts  (when  his  name  wa* 
called). — Present  and  not  voting. 

MR.  GEORGE  W.  COLEMAN,  of  Massachusetts  (when  his  name  was 
called). — Present  and  not  voting. 

MR.  GUY  A.  HAM,  of  Massachusetts. — Call  the  alternates. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — Whenever  a  delegate  is  present  and 
does  not  vote,  the  Secretary  will  call  his  alternate. 

MR.  BAXTER,  of  Massachusetts. — We  protest  against  calling  the  alter- 
nates. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  John  D.  Long,  alternate,  and  there 
was  no  response. 

The  Secretary  called  the  names  of  Benjamin  H.  Anthony  and  Frank 
Vogel,  alternates. 

MR.  FREDERICK  FOSDICK,  of  Massachusetts. — Mr.  Chairman,  Massa- 
chusetts is  a  law-abiding  State  and  will  stand  no  such  stealing. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — If  any  delegate  sent  to  this  Convention 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN  NATIONAL  CONVENTION  395 

by  the  State  of  Massachusetts  refuses  to  perform  the  duty  of  a  dele- 
gate, his  alternate  will  be  called  and  will  have  an  opportunity  to  vote. 
(Applause.) 

The  Secretary  will  begin  at  the  beginning  of  the  Massachusetts  roll, 
and  if  a  delegate  does  not  answer,  the  Secretary  will  call  the  alternate. 

MR,  BAXTER,  of  Massachusetts. — We  protest,  and  appeal  from  the 
decision  of  the  Chair.  We  want  the  Convention  to  vote  on  this  ques- 
tion (Cries  of  "Sit  down!"  "Shut  up!"  "Take  your  medicine!")  I 
will  not  shut  up  and  I  will  not  "take  your  medicine." 

MR.  FREDERICK  P.  GLAZIER,  of  Massachusetts. — We  are  here  with  the 
goods. 

The  Secretary  again  called  the  name  of  Charles  S.  Baxter. 

MR.  FOSDICK,  of  Massachusetts. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  rise  to  a  question 
of  privilege  or  information. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  will  state  the  question 
of  privilege. 

MR.  FOSDICK,  of  Massachusetts. — I  understood  that  on  previous  votes 
those  who  answered  "Present  and  not  voting"  did  not  have  their  alter- 
nates called.  In  order  to  save  time  we  announced  18  Massachusetts 
delegates  present  and  not  voting.  Do  I  understand  the  Chair  to  hold 
that  that  rules  out  the  whole  eighteen,  and  that  the  alternates  will  be 
called? 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN.— The  Chair  will  state  to  the  gentleman 
that  the  announcement  did  not  rule  out  the  eighteen  delegates,  but  the 
vote  of  Massachusetts  was  challenged  and  the  individual  roll  had  to  be 
called.  When  a  delegate  does  not  answer  his  name,  the  rule  requires 
his  alternate  to  be  called. 

MR.  FOSDICK,  of  Massachusetts.  He  did  answer.  I  answered  to  ray 
name,  "Present  and  not  voting."  I  do  not  understand. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — In  the  opinion  of  the  Chair,  if  a  dele- 
gate does  not  answer  to  his  name  when  his  name  is  called,  the  name  of 
the  alternate  should  be  called. 

MR.  FOSDICK,  of  Massachusetts. — I  answered.  Must  I  cast  my  vote 
for  some  candidate  in  order  to  be  considered  as  answering?  If  I  say 
"Present,"  is  not  that  sufficient? 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  does  not  think  it  is  suffi- 
cient. The  Secretary  will  begin  at  the  beginning,  and  will  call  the  alter- 
nates of  all  those  delegates  who  have  not  voted. 

The  Secretary  again  called  the  name  of  Charles  S.  Baxter,  delegate, 
and  he  answered,  "Present  and  not  voting." 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  John  D.  Long,  alternate,  and  there 
was  no  response. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  George  W.  Coleman,  delegate,  and 
he  again  answered,  "Present  and  not  voting." 


396  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Frederick  Fosdick,  delegate,  and 
he  answered,  "Present  but  not  voting." 

MR.  BENJAMIN  H.  ANTHONY,  of  Massachusetts. — Mr.  Anthony  is 
present  and  ready  to  vote. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Benjamin  H.  Anthony,  alternate, 
and  he  voted  for  Taft. 

MR.  FOSDICK,  of  Massachusetts. — Does  the  Chair  hold  that  Mr.  An- 
thony may  vote? 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  so  holds. 

MR.  FOSDICK,  of  Massachusetts. — I  appeal  from  the  decision  of  the 
Chair,  and  the  decision  will  be  repudiated  by  Massachusetts. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  will  say  to  the  gentleman 
that  while  he  will  have  abundant  opportunity  to  have  his  appeal  passed 
upon,  it  cannot  be  done  during  the  roll  call.  At  the  close  of  the  roll 
call  the  appeal  can  be  passed  upon  by  the  Convention,  before  the  result 
of  the  vote  is  announced. 

MR.  FOSDICK,  of  Massachusetts  (when  his  name  was  called). — 
"Present  and  not  voting."  I  defy  the  Convention  to  make  me  vote  for 
any  man. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Frank  Vogel,  alternate,  and  there 
was  no  response. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — Proceed  with  the  roll  call. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  Albert  Bushnell  Hart,  delegate,  and 
he  answered,  "Present  and  not  voting  here." 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Joseph  Monette,  alternate,  and 
there  was  no  response. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Octave  A.  LaRiviere,  delegate,  and 
he  answered,  "Present  and  not  voting." 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Charles  H.  Innes,  alternate,  and 
there  was  no  response. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  James  P.  Magenis,  delegate,  and 
he  answered,  "Present  and  not  voting." 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Walter  Ballantyne,  alternate,  and 
there  was  no  response. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Arthur  L.  Nason,  delegate,  and  he 
answered,  "Present  and  not  voting." 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Isaac  L.  Roberts,  alternate,  and 
there  was  no  response. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Alvin  G.  Weeks,  delegate,  and  he 
answered,  "Present  and  not  voting  at  this  crime  of  highway  robbery." 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Ernest  G.  Adams,  alternate,  and 
he  voted  for  Taft. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Cummings  C.  Chesney,  delegate, 
and  he  voted  for  Taft. 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  397 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Eugene  B.  Blake,  delegate,  and 
ke  voted  for  Taft. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Embury  P.  Clark,  delegate,  and  he 
voted  for  Taft. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  William  H.  Feiker,  delegate,  and 
he  voted  for  Taft. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Matthew  J.  Whittall,  delegate,  and 
he  voted  for  Taft. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Lawrence  F.  Kilty,  delegate,  and 
he  voted  for  Taft. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  John  M.  Keyes.  delegate,  and  there 
was  no  response. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Harrie  C.  Hunter,  alternate,  and 
he  answered,  "I  decline  to  vote." 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Frederick  P.  Glazier,  delegate,  and 
he  answered,  "Present  and  not  voting." 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  John  E.  Coolidge,  alternate,  and  there 
was  no  response. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Herbert  L.  Chapman,  delegate,  and 
he  answered,  "Present  and  not  voting." 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Peter  Caddell,  alternate,  and  there 
was  no  response. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Smith  M.  Decker,  delegate,  and 
there  was  no  response. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  James  R.  Berwick,  alternate,  and 
he  answered,  "Present  and  not  voting." 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  James  F.  Ingraham,  Jr.,  delegate, 
and  he  voted  for  Taft. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Isaac  Patch,  delegate,  and  he  voted 
for  Taft. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Charles  M.  Cox,  delegate,  and  he 
answered,  "Present  and  not  voting." 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Philip  V.  Mingo,  alternate,  and  he 
answered,  "Present  and  not  voting." 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Lynn  M.  Ranger,  delegate,  and  he 
answered,  "Present  and  not  voting" 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Ralph  W.  Reeve,  alternate,  and 
there  was  no  response. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  John  Read,  delegate,  and  he  voted 
for  Taft 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  George  S.  Lovejoy,  delegate,  and 
he  voted  for  Taft. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Alfred  Tewksbury,  delegate,  and 
he  answered.  "Present  and  not  voting." 


398  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Daniel  T.  Callahan,  alternate,  and 
there  was  no  response. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Loyal  L.  Jenkins,  delegate,  and 
he  answered,  "Present  and  not  voting." 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Saverio  R.  Romano,  alternate,  and 
there  was  no  response. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  H.  Clifford  Gallagher,  delegate,  and 
he  voted  for  Taft. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Guy  A.  Ham,  delegate,  and  he 
voted  for  Taft. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Grafton  D.  Gushing,  delegate,  and 
he  responded,  "Present  and  not  voting." 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Martin  Hays,  alternate. 

MR.  MARTIN  HAYS,  of  Massachusetts. — Mr.  Chairman,  the  preferen- 
tial vote  of  Massachusetts  was  for  William  Howard  Taft.  I  cast  my 
vote,  in  accordance,  with  that  preference,  for  Taft. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  W.  Prentiss  Parker,  delegate,  and 
he  voted  for  Taft. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  J.  Stearns  Gushing,  delegate,  and 
he  voted  for  Taft. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  George  L.  Barnes,  delegate,  and 
he  voted  for  Taft. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  John  Westall,  delegate,  and  he 
voted  for  Taft. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Abbott  P.  Smith,  delegate,  and  he 
voted  for  Taft. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Eldon  B.  Keith,  delegate,  and  he 
answered,  "Present  and  not  voting." 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  William  A.  Nye,  alternate,  and 
there  was  no  response. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Warren  A  Swift,  delegate,  and  he 
answered,  "Present  and  not  voting." 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Lyman  P.  Thomas,  alternate,  and 
there  was  no  response. 

MR.  FOSDICK,  of  Massachusetts. — Mr.  Chairman,  is  my  appeal  now  in 
order? 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN — It  is  not,  until  the  conclusion  of  the 
roll  call.  The  Chair  will  direct  that  the  votes  of  alternates  be  recorded 
separately  from  those  of  delegates,  in  order  that  if  the  Convention 
differs  from  the  Chair  upon  the  appeal,  the  result  of  the  Massachusetts 
poll  may  be  announced  upon  the  vote  of  delegates  only;  while  if  the 
Convention  agrees  with  the  Chair  upon  the  appeal,  the  result  may  be 
announced  so  as  to  include  the  votes  of  alternates. 


FIFTEENTH  REPUBLICAN  NATIONAL  CONVENTION 


399 


The  result  of  the  vote  of  Massachusetts  was  announced:  Taft  20 
(delegates  17,  alternates  3),  present  and  not  voting  21  (delegates  18, 
alternates  3),  as  follows: 


II 


Delegates. 

Charles     S.     Baxter .... 
George    W.     Coleman .  .  . 

Frederick    Fosdick 

Albert   Bushnell   Hart.  .  . 
Octave    A.    LaRiviere .  .  . 

James    P.    Magens 

Arthur    L.    Nason 

Alvin  G.   Weeks 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Cummings   C.    Chesney 

Eugene  B.  Blake .  .  . 
2 — Embury  P.  Clark .  .  . 

William  H.  Feiker .  . 
3— Matthew  J.  Whittall . 

Lawrence  F.  Kilty .  . 
4 — John  M.  Keyes.  .  .  . 

Frederick  P.  Glazier . 
S — Herbert  L.  Chapman  . 

Smith  M.  Decker .  .  . 
6 — James  F.  Ingraham,  Jr. 

Isaac  Patch 

7 — Charles  M.  Cox .  .  .  .' 

Lynn  M.  Ranger .  .  . 
8 — John  Read 

George  S.  Love  joy .  . 
9 — Alfred  Tewksbury  .  . 

Loyal  L.  Jenkins .  .  . 
10 — H.  Clifford  Gallagher  . 

Guy  A.  Ham 

1 1 — Grafton  D.  Cashing  .  . 

W.  Prentiss  Parker .  . 
1 2 — J.  Stearns  Cushing  .  . 

George  L.  Barnes .  .  . 
13— John  Westall 

Abbott  P.  Smith  .  .  . 
14 — Eldon  B.  Keith  .... 

Warren  A.   Swift .  .  . 


«•        *»   «     S 

tf        S>    S     2 


Alternates. 

John  D.   Long 

Benjamin  H.  Anthony . 

Frank   Vogel 

Joseph  Monette .... 
Charles  H.  Innes .  .  . 
Walter  Ballantyne .  .  . 
Isaac  L.  Roberts .... 
Ernest  G.  Adams .  .  . 


Charles  H.  Cutting.  . 
Frank  H.  Metcalf. .  .  . 
J.  Clarence  Hill.  .  .  . 
David  F.  Dillon .... 
Thomas  F.  McGauley.  . 
William  A.  L.  Bazeley  . 
Harrie  C.  Hunter .  .  . 
John  E.  Coolidge. .  .  . 

Peter  Caddell 

James  R.  Berwick .  .  . 
William  W.  Coolidge. 
Alfred  E.  Lunt .  .  .  . 
Philip  V.  Mingo .... 
Ralph  W.  Reeve.  .  .  . 

Wilton  B.  Fay 

William  F.  Davis .  .  . 
Daniel  T.  Callaghan .  . 
Saverio  R.  Romano .  . 
Frank  B.  Crane.  .  .  . 
William  E.  Hingston. . 

Martin  Hays 

Charles  H.  Diggs.  .  . 
Louis  E.  Flye. .... 
Wendell  Williams.  .  . 
James  Whitehead .  .  . 
Charles  T.  Smith .  .  . 
William  A.  Nye .  .  .  . 
Lyman  P.  Thomas .  . 


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a,      -«: 


18 


3         3 


The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll 

MR.   RICHMOND  PEARSON,   of   North  Carolina    (when  the   State  of 


400 

North  Carolina  was  called). — Mt.  Chairman,  one  or  more  of  the 
delegates  from  North  Carolina  are  absent.  I  am  not  prepared  to  say 
whether  their  alternates  are  here.  It  would  be  better  to  call  the  roll  of 
the  State,  but  I  desire  to  say  that  the  absent  ones  have  requested  me  to 
state  that  they  would  act  with  the  majority  if  present. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — Did  the  gentleman  announce  the  vote 
of  North  Carolina? 

MR.  PEARSON,  of  North  Carolina. — The  vote  as  cast  in  a  poll  which 
was  taken  of  the  delegation,  not  to  be  recorded  here,  was  1  for  Mr.  Taft 
and  23  not  voting.  In  behalf  of  those  23  I  desire  to  say  that  they  wish 
to  be  recorded  "as  present  and  not  voting." 

The  vote  of  North  Carolina  was  announced :  1  Taft,  1  Roosevelt,  22 
present  and  not  voting. 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll  of  States,  etc. 

MR.  THOMAS  McCusKER,  of  Oregon  (when  the  State  of  Oregon  was 
called). — The  Oregon  delegates  were  instructed  by  the  State  law  how  to 
vote.  We  have  been  instructed  to  vote  for  Mr.  Roosevelt.  Two  of  our 
delegates,  who  were  instructed  for  Mr  Roosevelt  and  who  are  Roosevelt 
men,  decline  to  vote.  The  other  eight,  who  are  loyal  to  their  districts 
at  home,  vote  for  Mr.  Roosevelt,  8  votes. 

MR.  DANIEL  BOYD,  of  Oregon. — I  challenge  the  vote  of  Oregon  and 
call  for  a  poll. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  vote  of  Oregon  being  challenged, 
the  roll  of  the  State  will  be  called. 

The  Secretary  proceeded  to  call  the  roll  of  delegates  from  the  State 
of  Oregon. 

MR  CHARLES  W.  ACKERSON,  of  Oregon  (when  his  name  was  called). 
—Mr.  Chairman,  I  refuse  to  vote  where  the  cards  are  stacked. 

The  Oregon  delegation  having  been  polled,  the  result  was  announced, 
Roosevelt  8,  present  and  not  voting  2,  as  follows : 

Present  and 
Delegates.  Roosevelt.  Not  Voting. 

Charles    \V.    Ackerson . .  i 

Daniel  Boyd  .... 
Fred  S.  Bynon  .  .  . 
Homer  C.  Campbell  . 
Charles  H.  Carey  .  . 
Henry  Waldo  Coe .  . 

D.    D.    Hail 

Thomas    McCusker.  . 

J.    N.    Smith 

A.    V.    Swift. 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL   CONVENTION  401 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

The  vote  of  South  Carolina  was  announced,  Taft  16,  present  and 
not  voting  1,  absent  1. 

MR.  C.  P.  T  WHITE,  of  South  Carolina. — I  challenge  the  vote  of 
South  Carolina. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  vote  of  South  Carolina  being  chal- 
lenged, the  Secretary  will  call  the  roll  of  that  State  delegation. 

The  Secretary  called  the  roll  of  the  South  Carolina  delegation. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN  — The  names  of  the  non-responding  dele- 
gates will  be  called,  and  if  there  is  no  response  their  alternates  will  be 
called. 

The  name  of  W.  T.  Andrews,  delegate,  was  again  called,  and  there 
was  no  response. 

The  name  of  A.  S.  Johnson,  alternate,  was  called,  and  there  was  no 
response. 

The  name  of  J  E.  Wilson,  delegate,  was  called  and  he  answered, 
"Present  and  not  voting." 

The  name  of  E.  J.  Sawyer,  alternate,  was  called  and  there  was  no 
response. 

The  result  of  the  vote  of  South  Carolina  was  announced,  Taft  16, 
present  and  not  voting  1,  absent  1,  as  follows : 

Present  and 
Delegates.  Taft.      Not  Voting.       Absent. 

Joseph  W.   Tolbert i 

J.   Duncan  Adams i 

J.  R.  Levy   (By  T.  A.   Williams,  alternate) i 

W.   T.   Andrews _ 

DISTRICTS. — Delegates. 

i — Thomas  L.   Grant i 

Aaron    P.    Prioleati i 

2 — W.  D.  Ramey i 

W.  S.  Dixson i 

3 — Ernest   F.    Cochran i 

R.   R.  Tolbert,  Jr i 

4 — Thomas    Brier i 

Frank    J.     Young i 

5 — John   F.   Jones i 

C.   P.   T.   White i 

6— J.    E.    Wilson 

J.  A.  Baxter T 

7 — Alonzo  D.  Webster t 

J.    H.    Goodwyn t 


6 


The  Secretary  resumed  the  calling  of  the  roll  of  States,  etc. 
MR.   WILLIAM   P.   HUBBARD,  of  West  Virginia   (when  West  Virginia 
was  called). — Mr.  Chairman,  the  sixteen  delegates  and  the  sixteen  alter- 


402  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  Ot   THE 

nates  from  West  Virginia  are  all  present,  and  each  and  every  one  of 
them  declines  to  vote. 

The  Secretary  resumed  and  concluded  the  calling  of  the  roll. 

MR.  FOSDICK,  of  Massachusetts. — On  behalf  of  Massachusetts  I  with- 
draw its  appeal  from  the  decision  of  the  Chair  entered  during  the  roll 
call 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  appeal  having  been  withdrawn,  the 
result  of  the  vote  will  be  announced. 

The  Secretary  having  resumed  and  concluded  the  roll  call  of  States, 
etc.,  the  result  was  announced,  as  follows:  Taft  561,  Roosevelt  107, 
LaFollette  41,  Cummins  17,  Hughes  2,  present  and  not  voting  344,  absent 
6,  as  follows: 

N 

^  .  as        5  a    (4 »    1 1 

*•  *>  *»        ~  *  »!  sT 

States,    Territories   and       £  $          «;  b|  |       "XT  s        Sj  "5          S 

Delegate  Districts.  |  £  £  «  U       (!  *       I  *         I 

Alabama 24  22           . .           . .             . .           . .               a 

Arizona 6  6 

Arkansas 18  17           ..           ..             ..                             i 

California 26  a           . .            . .              . .            . .              34 

Colorado 12  12 

Connecticut 14  14 

Delaware     6  6 

Florida 12  13 

Georgia 28  28 

Idaho     8  i            ..            ..                7 

Illinois 58  2           53            . .              . .            . .                i           t 

Indiana     30  20             3            ..              ..            ..                7 

Iowa 26  16           ..           ..             10 

Kansas 20  2           . .           . .             . .           . .             jg 

Kentucky     26  24             2 

Louisiana     20  20 

Maine 12           ..           \\             \a 

Maryland     16  i             9            ..              ,.            p>                s          'j 

Massachusetts 36  20                                                                        21 

Michigan 3O  2O            9                                                         T 

Minnesota 24  . .             _                           _                            24 


Mississippi 20 


'7  3 


Missouri 35 

Montana g  g 

Nebraska      16  ..             2                                                       i4 

Nevada 6  5 

New    Hampshire 8  3 

New    Jersey 28  . .             2                          '. '.                          26 

New   Mexico g  7             , 

New    York 9o  76            g                                                       "6 

North  Carolina 24  i             i                                                       a3 

North    Dakota. 10  io 

Ohio 4g  i4           .'.'                                                       '' 

Oklahoma 2O  4             f 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  403 


2  .  «  .    .•  s  -S 

a;          2  i         tt)  2         a  .? 

h.  <»  -Si  •$         H  •*        •$  * 

States,    Territories  and          £•£•$*.  ^  "itc2^ 

Delegate  Districts.  £  °  £  £  .3  ($5  £ 

Oregon      10  . .  8  •  •  . .  . .  * 

Pennsylvania     76  9  *  •  •  •  •  *  &2 

Rhode    Island 10  10 

South     Carolina 18  16  .  ..  ..  i 

South    Dakota 10  . .  s  S 

Tennessee 24  23  i 

Texas     40  3^  ••  •  •  •  •  •  •  8 

Utah 8  8 

Vermont 8  6  ..  ..  ..  ..  2 

Virginia 24  22  . .  . .  . .  i 

Washington 14  '4 

West    Virginia 16  ..  ..  16 

Wisconsin     26  . .  . .  26 

Wyoming 6  6 

Alaska 2  2 

District    of    Columbia ....        2  2 

Hawaii 6  6 

Philippine    Islands 2  2 

Poito   Rico 2  2 


155°         56i          107  41  17  2  349  6 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — William  Howard  Taft  faaving  received 
a  majority  of  the  votes  to  which  the  Convention  is  entitled,  is  declared 
to  be  the  nominee  of  the  Convention  for  President  of  the  United  States. 
(Applause.) 

NOMINATION   OF   CANDIDATE  FOR  VICE-PRESIDENT. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN — The  Secretary  will  call  the  roll  for 
the  presentation  of  candidates  for  Vice-President 

The  Secretary  proceeded  to  call  the  roll  of  States,  etc. 

MR.  POPE  M.  LONG,  of  Alabama  (when  Alabama  was  called). — Ala- 
bama yields  to  New  York. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  recognizes  Mr.  Jacob  Vari- 
Vechten  Olcott,  of  New  York. 

NOMINATING    SPEECH    OF    MR.    JACOB    VAN     VECHTEN    OLCOTT. 

MR.  JOHN  VANVECHTEN  OLCOTT,  of  New  York.— Mr.  Chairman  and 
gentlemen  of  the  Convention:  On  behalf  of  the  New  York  delegation 
I  wish  to  present  its  candidate  for  the  Vice-Presidential  nomination.  He 
is  well  known  to  most  of  you.  In  every  position  which  he  has  filled, 
whether  as  mayor  of  his  own  city,  or  in  the  House  of  Representatives 
for  twenty  years,  or  as  Vice-President  for  four  years,  he  has  made 
good.  (Applause.)  Considering  the  lateness  of  the  hour,  it  seems 


404  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

unnecessary  to  say  more.  On  behalf  of  New  York,  we  place  in  nom- 
ination for  Vice-President  James  Schoolcraft  Sherman,  of  New  York. 
(Applause.) 

MR.  HARRY  M.  DAUGHERTY,  of  Ohio. — Mr.  Chairman,  on  behalf  of 
fourteen  delegates  from  Ohio,  I  second  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Sherman. 
(Applause.) 

The   Secretary   resumed    and   concluded   the   roll  call  of    States,   etc 
MR.   FERNANDO  \V.   HARTFORD,   of   New   Hampshire. — Mr.   Chairman, 
New    Hampshire    moves    the    renomination    of    Vice-President    Sherman 
bj-   acclamation. 

VOTE     FOR     CANDIDATE     FOR     VICE-PRESIDENT. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  Secretary  will  call  the  roll  for  the 
selection  of  a  candidate  for  nominee  of  this  Convention  for  Vice-Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States. 

The  Secretary  proceeded  to  call  the  roll  of  States. 

MR.  CHARLES  S.  DENEEN,  of  Illinois  (when  Illinois  was  called). — 
Mr.  Chairman,  Illinois  votes  9  for  Sherman,  49  not  voting  or  absent. 

MR.  WILLIAM  J.  COOKE,  of  Illinois. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  challenge  the 
vote  of  Illinois  and  ask  for  a  roll  call. 

The  Secretary  proceeded  to  call  the  roll  of  the  Illinois  delegation. 

MR.  R.  R.  McCoRMiCK  (when  his  name  was  called). — Mr.  Chair- 
man. I  vote  for  Howard  F.  Gillette. 

The  Secretary  having  resumed  and  concluded  the  roll  call  of  the 
Illinois  delegation,  the  vote  was  announced:  Sherman,  9;  Gillette,  1; 
present  hut  not  voting.  17 :  absent.  31,  as  follows : 


Delegates. 
Charles    S.    Deneen 
Roy    O.     West 
B.    A.    Eckhart 
Chauncey   Dcwey 
L.    Y.    Sherman 
Robert  D.   Clark 
L.  L.   Emmerson 
W.    A.    Rosenfield 


DISTRICTS.  —  Delegates. 

1  —  Francis  P.   Brady 

Martin   B.    Madden 

2  —  John   J.    Hanberg 

Isaac    N.    Powell 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  405 

ILLINOIS.— Continued. 


B  ^  «   -J 

t  ^  > 

Delegates.  £  -3  | 

3— William   H.    Weber 

Charles    W.    Vail 

4 — Thomas  J.   Healy 

A'lbert   C.    Heiser i 

5 — Charles   J.    Happell i 

William  J.  Cooke i 

6 — Homer  K.   Galpin i 

Allen   S.    Ray i 

7 — Abel     Davis 

D.     A.     Campbell 

S — John  F.  Devine 

Isidore  H.   Himes 

9 — Fred    W.    Upham i 

R.  R.  McCormick i 

10 — James   Pease 

John  E.   Wilder i 

1 1 — Ira  C.  Copley .  .  i 

John    Lambert 

12 — Fred.   E.   Sterling . .  .  .  ; 

H.  W.  Johnson 

13 — James  A.   Cowley 

J.  T.  Williams i 

14 — Frank  G.  Allen 

William  J.  Graham .  .  i 

1 5 — Harry    E.    Brown  .   .  „ i 

Clarence  E.   Sniveley 

16 — Edward  N.  Woodruff 

Cairo     A.     Trimble 

17 — G.  J.  Johnson 

Frank    B.    Stitt i 

i& — John    L.    Hamilton . .  i 

Len   Small i 

19 — W.  L.  Shellabarger 

Elim    J.    Hawbaker . .  .  .  i 

20 — J.     A.     Glenn 

W.  W.   Watson 

ai — Logan    Hay .  .  i 

William    H.    Provine . .  i 

»2 — Edward    E.    Miller 

Henry    J.    Schmidt 

23 — William    F.    Bundy 

Aden     Knoph 

24 — Randolph   Smith i 

James   B.    Barker 

15 — Philip    H.    Eisenmayer 

Walter    Wood     .  i 


406  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

The  Secretary  having  resumed  and  concluded  the  calling  of  the  roll 
of  States,  etc,  the  result  was  announced:  Sherman,  596;  Borah,  21; 
Merriam,  20;  Hadley,  14;  Beveridge,  2;  Gillette,  1;  present  and  not 
voting,  352;  absent,  72,  as  follows: 


5"  «  «»  QA  *°      Q 

to  I  «>,      :s      *  -s  ^     -• 

,       -o  ^  £  -s:  -r                           C         £  S  -         * 

States,   Territories  and        £  ^  ^  ^g^go% 

Delegate   Districts.           |°  *  «  £  £           |        5  «           * 

Alabama 24  22  . .  . .           . .         . .         . .  2 

Arizona 6  6 

Arkansas 18  18 

California 26  2  . .  . .           . .          . .          . .  24 

Colorado 12  12 

Connecticut 14  14 

Delaware      6  6 

Florida 12  12 

Georgia 28  28 

Idaho     8  8         

Illinois 58  9  ..  ..            ..          ..            I  17         31 

Indiana     30  21  ..  ..              a         ..          ..  ^ 

Iowa 26  16  10 

Kansas 20  2  . .  . .            . .         . .          . .  18 

Kentucky     26  26  . .  . .            . .          . . 

Louisiana     20  20 

Maine 12  ..  ..  ..            ..          ..          ..  12 

Maryland     16  8  ..          ..            3           S 

Massachusetts 36  15  ..  ..             3         ..          ..  4         14 

Michigan 30  20  3  . .              I          . .          . .  6 

Minnesota 24  . .  . .  . .           . .          . .          . .  34 

Mississippi 20  17  ..  ..           ..         ..          ..  3 

Missouri 36  20  ..  ..            ..          ..          ..  16         .. 

Montana 8  8 

Nebraska      16  ..  ..  ..            ..           a         ..  14 

Nevada 6  6 

New    Hampshire 8  8 

New    Jersey 28  . .  . .  . .            . .          . .          . .  28 

New    Mexico 8  8  ..  ..            ..          ..          ..  ..          .. 

New    York 90  87  ..          . .            3 

North  Carolina 24  6  . .  . .           . .         . .         . .  i         17 

North    Dakota 10  10 

Ohio 48  14  34 

Oklahoma 20  4  . .  . .           . .         . .         . .  16 

Oregon      10  ..  8         ..           a 

Pennsylvania     76  la  . .  . .           . .         . .         . .  63           i 

Rhode    Island 10  10 

South     Carolina 18  15  . .  . .           . .         . .         . .  3 

South    Dakota. to  10 

Tennessee 34  33  . .  .,           . .         . .         . .  j 

Texas 40  31  ..         ..           8           x 

Utah 8  8  

Vermont 8  6  a 


FIFTEENTH  REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  407 


i      t      4 

.2  *  I*          •?  ?'C          i         S«*^e 

States,  Territories  and         5  £  v        2  &  2  !s      $ 

Delegate  Districts.  g.  ^(S^^^Si^ 

Virginia 24  22         •  •          •  •  .  •          . .      '    . .  \  I 

Washington 14  14 

West    Virginia 16  16 

Wisconsin 26  . .         . .         ao          . .         . .         . .  4          » 

Wyoming 6  6 

Alaska 2  2 

District    of    Columbia ....        z  2 

Hawaii 6  6 

Philippine    Islands z  2 

Porto  Rico 2  2         ..         ..  


1550         595         21         20  14  2  I       352         72 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — James  Schoolcraft  Sherman  having 
received  a  majority  of  the  votes  to  which  the'  Convention  is  entitled,  is 
declared  to  be  the  nominee  of  the  Convention  for  Vice-President  of  the 
United  States.  (Applause.) 

CHAIRMEN    OF    NOTIFICATION    COMMITTEES. 

MR.  JOHN  WANAMAKER,  of  Pennsylvania,  offered  the  following  res-, 
olution,  which  was  read  and  agreed  to : 

"Resolved,  That  the  Permanent  Chairman  of  this  Convention,  Hon. 
Elihu  Root,  of  New  York,  be  appointed  chairman  of  the  committee  to 
notify  Hon.  William  H.  Taft  of  his  nomination  for  President,  and  that 
Hon.  Thomas  H.  Devine,  of  Colorado,  be  appointed  chairman  of  the 
committee  to  notify  Hon.  James  S.  Sherman  of  his  nomination  for 
Vice-President" 

MISSOURI'S    VOTE   ON    PLATFORM. 

MR.  WALTER  S.  DICKEY,  of  Missouri. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  rise  to  ask 
that  a  correction  be  made  in  the  vote  of  the  State  of  Missouri  on  the 
adoption  of  the  platform.  In  the  absence  of  Governor  Hadley,  the 
entire  delegation  was  voted  "Yea"  on  that  question,  and  he  has  called 
our  attention  to  it  since. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  gentleman  is  too  late. 

PUBLICATION    OF    CONVENTION    PROCEEDINGS. 

MR.  HENRY  BLUN,  of  Georgia,  offered  the  following  resolution, 
which  was  read  and  agreed  to: 


408  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

"Resolved,  That  the  Secretary  of  this  Convention  is  hereby  directed 
to  prepare  and  publish  a  full  and  complete  report  of  the  official  pro- 
ceedings of  this  Convention,  under  the  direction  of  the  National  Com- 
mittee, co-operating  with  the  local  committee." 

VACANCIES    IN    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    COMMITTEE. 

MR.  JAMES  A.  HEMENWAY,  of  Indiana,  offered  the  following  resolu- 
tion, which  was  read  and  agreed  to : 

''Resolved,  That  the  National  Republican  Committee  be  and  it  is 
hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  fill  all  vacancies  in  its  membership 
in  whatever  manner  occurring,  and  the  Republican  National  Committee 
shall  have  power  to  declare  vacant  the  seat  of  any  member  who  refuses 
to  support  the  nominees  of  this  Republican  National  Convention  as- 
sembled at  Chicago  in  June,  1912." 

VACANCIES    IN    NOMINATIONS. 

MR.  FRED.  W.  ESTABROOK;  of  New  Hampshire,  offered  the  follow- 
ing resolution  which  was  read  and  agreed  to: 

"Resolved,  That  the  National  Republican  Committee  be  and  it  is 
hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  fill  all  vacancies  which  may  oc- 
cur by  reason  of  death,  declination  or  otherwise,  in  the  ticket  nomin- 
ated by  this  convention,  or  may  in  its  judgment  call  a  National  Con- 
vention for  said  purpose. 

NATIONAL    COMMITTEEMAN    FOR    OKLAHOMA. 

MR.  JOSEPH  A.  GILL,  of  Oklahoma. — Mr.  Chairman,  I  desire  to 
offer  the  following  as  a  recommendation  for  member  of  the  National 
Committee  from  Oklahoma : 

"We  hereby  recommend  for  the  position  of  National  Committeeman 
for  the  State  of  Oklahoma  Hon.  James  A.  Harris,  of  Wagoner,  Okla- 
homa." 

This  is  signed  by  four  members  of  the  Committee.  The  other 
sixteen  members  of  the  Oklahoma  delegation  are  present,  and,  as  I 
understand  it,  desire  to  vote  upon  the  election  of  a  committeeman,  and 
I  ask  that  the  roll  be  called. 

MR.  A.  E.  PERRY,  of  Oklahoma. — Mr  Chairman,  we  have  already 
voted  and  have  elected  Mr.  George  C.  Priestly. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — There  being  two  nominations  for 
member  of  the  National  Committee  for  the  State  of  Oklahoma,  it  is 
manifestly  impracticable  at  this  hour  and  in  the  present  condition  of 
the  business  of  the  Convention  to  determine  the  question.  The  Chair 
will  entertain  a  motion  to  refer  the  question  as  between  the  two  nom- 
inees to  the  new  National  Committee,  which  will  meet  at  10  o'clock 
to-morrow  morning. 

MR.    NEWELL    SANDERS,    of    Tennessee.— Mr.    Chairman,    I    move   to 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  409 

refer  the  question,  with  power  to  act  upon  it,  to  the  National  Commit- 
tee,  which  will  meet  at   10  o'clock  to-morrow  morning. 
The  motion  was  agreed  to. 

COMMITTEES    TO    NOTIFY    NOMINEES. 

The  PERMANENT  CHAIRMAN. — The  Chair  requests  the  chairman  of 
each  delegation  to  submit  in  writing  the  name  of  its  member  of  the 
committee  to  notify  Hon.  William  H.  Taft  of  his  nomination  for  Pres- 
ident, and  also  the  name  of  its  member  of  the  committee  to  notify  Hon. 
James  S.  Sherman  of  his  nomination  for  Vice-President. 

COMMITTEE   TO   NOTIFY   CANDIDATE  FOR  PRESIDENT. 

Alabama -  v>.    D.    Street 

Arizona J.    Lorenzo    Hubbell 

Arkansas    .  C.  E.  Speer 

California    ...       

Colorado Simeon   Guggenheim 

Connecticut Frank  B.  Weeks 

Delaware George  W.  Marshall 

Florida H.   Schubh 

Georgia      M.   B.   Morton 

Idaho     Evan  Evans 

Illinois Martin  B.  Madden 

Indiana Edward   E.    Toner 

Iowa Luther  A.   Brewer 

Kansas John  M.  Landon 

Kentucky     R.    C.    Stoll 

Louisiana Reuben  H.  Brown 

Maine Edward    M.    Lawrence 

Maryland Adrian   Posey 

Massachusetts 

Michigan John    Wallace 

Minnesota Moses    E.    Clapp 

Mississippi E.    H.    McKissack 

Missouri Homer   B.   Mann 

Montana A.  J.  Wilcomb 

Nebraska Xathan    Merrian 

Nevada R.   B.  Govan 

New    Hampshire Charles   M.    Floyd 

New  Jersey 

New    Mexico     J.  M.   Cunningham 

New  York Otto  T.    Bannard 

North    Carolina Z.    V.    \Valser 

North    Dakota J.   H.    Cooper 

Ohio J.   W.  Conger 

Oklahoma Alvah   McDonald 

Oregon Henry  Waldo   Coe 

Pennsylvania     Hugh    Bloch 

Rhode   Island R.   L.   Beeckman 

South    Carolina J.   E.   Wilson 

South    Dakota G.    C.    Redfield 

Tennessee    .  .  Tohn   W.   Overall 


410  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

COMMITTEE    TO    NOTIFY    CANDIDATE    FOR    PRESIDENT.—  Continued. 

Texas    ....................  Eugene  Marshall 

Utah    .....................  Reed  Smoot 

Vermont    ................... 

Virginia    ....................  R.  A.  Fulyiler 

Washington    .................  William  Jones 

West    Virginia     ......  *  ......  ...  Meredith  J.  Sims 

Wisconsin    ...................  Alvin  P.  Kletzsch 

Wyoming     ..................  John  Martin 

Alaska   .....................  Jafet   Lindberg 

District    of    Columbia  ............  Aaron  Bradshaw 

Hawaii    .................... 

Philippine    Islands     .............  Thomas  L.   Hartigan 

Porto    Rico     .................  Mateo  Fajardo 

COMMITTEE  TO  NOTIFY  CANDIDATE  FOR  VICE-PRESIDENT. 

Alabama    ...................  W.  G.  Mason 

Arizona  ....................  J.   C.  Adams 

Arkansas   ...................  C.  M.  Wade 

California    .................. 

Colorado    ...................  Jeff  Farr 

Connecticut    .................  Frank  C.  Woodruff 

Delaware  ...................  S.    S.    Penniwell 

Florida   ....................  Z.   T.   Beilby 

Georgia     ...................  j.  E.  Peterson 

Idaho     ....................  Evan  Evans 

Illinois    ....................  E.   J.   Hawbraker 

Indiana  ....................  Enos  H.  Porter 

Iowa    .....................  Henry  G.    Brown 

Kansas    ....................  Norman  Hay 

Kentucky     ..................  L.   w.   Bethurem 

Louisiana  ...................  D.   A-   Lines 

Maine    ....................  Frank  M.   Law 

Maryland  ...................  Theodore  P.   Weif 

Massachusetts    ................ 

Michigan   ...................  John  Haggerty 

Minnesota    ..................  Stanley  Washburn 

Mississippi    ..................  J.  M.   Shumpert 

Missouri    ...................  J.  C.   Moore 

M°ntana    ...................  George  C  Clay 

Nebraska   ...................  G.    W.    Neill 

Nevada   ....................  M.  S.  Badt 

New   Hampshire  ...............  Orton  R  Brown 

New  Jersey    ................. 

New    Mexico    ..............  .'  .'  W.  D.  Murray 

^Y"rk   I.  .................  W.  S.  DoolMe 

N°S  ?fv  ^    ...............  Isaac  M"  Mee"ns 

North    Dakota   ................  L    B    G 

OhlO       ....  V  r™ 

........  Kin&  Thompson 


w    IT    -»,r  tr 
......  W.  E.  McKeand 

:  :  ::::::  .......  £r  r  do,  Coe 

„..     T  ,      .  .......  George   Davidson 

Rhode  Island    .......  TJ    TT    T    /^    ,  , 

•  •  •  .R.  H.  I.  Goddard,  Jr. 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  411 

COMMITTEE  TO  NOTIFY   CANDIDATE  FOR  VICE-PRESIDENT. Continued. 

South   Carolina A.    D.    Webster 

South    Dakota William   Williamson 

Tennessee J.   W.   Ross 

Texas     J.   H.   Hawley 

Utah George   Sutherland 

Vermont 

Virginia John  Paul 

Washington Hugh   Eldridge 

West    Virginia Walter   S.   Sugden 

Wisconsin Theodore  Kronshage 

Wyoming C.  E.  Carpenter 

Alaska W.  B.  Hoggatt 

District    of    Columbia W.   Calvin   Chase 

Hawaii 

Philippine    Islands John   M.   Switzer 

Porto    Rico Sosthenes   Behn 

THANKS  TO  CONVENTION  OFFICERS. 

MR.  HERBERT  PARSONS,  of  New  York,  offered  the  following  resolu- 
tion, which  was  read  and  agreed  to: 

"Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  this  Convention  are  tendered  to  the 
Temporary  and  Permanent  Chairman,  the  Secretary  and  his  assistants, 
the  Sergeant-at-Arms  and  his  deputies,  the  parliamentarians,  the  reading 
and  tally  clerks,  the  official  reporter,  and  the  messengers." 

THANKS   TO   CITIZENS    OF   CHICAGO,    ETC. 

MR.  WILLIAM  G.  Dows,  of  Iowa,  offered  the  following  resolution, 
which  was  read  and  agreed  to : 

"Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  this  Convention  are  hereby  tendered 
to  Fred  W.  Upham,  chairman  of  the  Chicago  Committee  on  Arrange- 
ments, the  members  of  the  Sub-Committee  of  the  National  Committee, 
and  the  citizens  of  Chicago  for  the  hospitable  and  perfect  provisions 
made  for  the  sessions  of  the  Convention  and  the  entertainment  of  dele- 
gates, alternates  and  visitors." 

FINAL   ADJOURNMENT. 

MR.  FRED  W.  ESTABROOK,  of  New  Hampshire. — Mr.  Chairman,  I 
move  that  the  Convention  adjourn  without  day. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to;  and  (at  10  o'clock  and  29  minutes  P.  M.) 
the  Convention  adjourned  without  day. 

REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    COMMITEE. 

July  9th,  1912— Charles  D.  Hilles,  of  Dobbs  Ferry,  New  York,  elected 
Chairman,  and  James  B.  Reynolds,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  Secretary.  Subse- 
quently George  R.  Sheldon,  of  New  York  City,  was  selected  as  Treasurer; 
and  the  committee  met  in  New  York  City,  and  as  now  constituted  is  M 
follows : 


412  FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION. 


STATE.  NAME  P.   O.  ADDRESS. 

Alabama    PRELATE   D.    BARKER Mobile. 

Alaska    WILLIAM    S.   BAYLISS Juneau. 

Arizona    RALPH    H.    CAMERON Grand  Canyon. 

Arkansas    POWELL    CLAYTON    Washington,  D.  C. 

California    

Colorado    SIMON  GUGGENHEIM    Denver. 

Connecticut     CHARLES  F.  BROOKER Ansonia. 

Delaware     COLEMAN    DU    PONT Wilmington. 

District  of  Columbia CHAPIN  BROWN    Washington. 

Florida     HENRY   S.   CHUBB Gainesville. 

Georgia    HENRY  S.  JACKSON Atlanta. 

Hawaii  CHARLES   A.   RICE Honolulu. 

Idaho    JOHN  W.   HART Menan. 

Illinois   ROY  O.  WEST Chicago. 

Indiana    JAMES  P.  GOODRICH Indianapolis. 

Iowa     JOHN  T.   ADAMS Dubuque. 

Kansas     F.  S.   STANLEY Wichita. 

Kentucky     JOHN    W.    McCULLOCH Owensboro. 

Louisiana     VICTOR   LOISEL    New  Orleans. 

Maine  FREDERICK  HALE Portland. 

Maryland     WILLIAM    P.   JACKSON Salisbury. 

Massachusetts    W.  MURRAY  CRAN  E Dalton. 

Michigan   CHARLES  B.  WARREN Detroit. 

Minnesota   E.    B.    HAWKINS Duluth. 

Mississippi    L.    B.   MOSELEY Jackson. 

Missouri    THOMAS  K.  NEIDRINGHAUS. .  St.    Louis. 

Montana    THOMAS  A.    MARLO W Helena. 

Nebraska     R.  B.   HOWELL Omaha. 

Nevada     H.   B.   MAXSON Reno. 

New   Hampshire    FRED  W.   ESTABROOK Nashua. 

New   Jersey    FRANKLIN   MURPHY    Newark. 

New    Mexico    CHARLES   A.    SPIESS Las  Vegas. 

New    York    WILLIAM    BARNES,   JR Albany. 

North   Carolina    E.   C.  DUNCAN Raleigh. 

North   Dakota    THOMAS  E.   MARSHALL Oakes. 

Ohio     SHERMAN    GRANGER Zanesville. 

Oklahoma    J.   A.   HARRIS Wagoner. 

Oregon     RALPH    E.    WILLIAMS Dallas. 

Pennsylvania     HENRY   G.    WASSON Pittsburgh. 

Philippines    H.    B.    McCOY Manila. 

Porto  Rico   S.    BEHN San  Juan. 

Rhode  Island   WILLIAM    P.    SHEFFIELD Newport. 

South   Carolina    JOSEPH   W.    TOLBERT Greenwood. 

South    Dakota    THOMAS     THORSON Canton. 

Tennessee    NEWELL   SANDERS Chattanooga. 

Texas    H.  F.  MacGREGOR Houston. 

Utah    REED  SMOOT  Provo. 

Vermont    JOHN  L.  LEWIS North  Troy. 

Virginia  ALVAH  H.   MARTIN Norfolk. 

Washington    S.   A.    PERKINS Tacoma. 

West  Virginia   

Wisconsin   ALFRED  T.   ROGERS Madison. 

Wyoming    GEORGE  T.    PEXTON Kvanston. 


Official    Notification    of    Candidates 


ADDRESS  OF  SENATOR  ROOT  OF  NEW  YORK 

Notifying  President  Taft  of  his  Nomination 
for  the  Presidency 

WASHINGTON,  D.  C,  AUG.  1,  1912. 

Mr.  Root  said :  MR.  PRESIDENT,  the  Committee  of  Notification,  here 
present,  has  the  honor  to  advise  you  formally  that  on  the  22d  day  of  June, 
last,  you  were  regularly  and  duly  nominated  by  the  National  Convention 
of  the  Republican  party  to  be  the  Republican  candidate  for  President  for 
the  term  beginning  March  4th,  1913. 

For  the  second  time  in  the  history  of  the  Republican  party,  a  part 
of  the  delegates  have  refused  to  be  bound  by  the  action  of  the  Con- 
vention. Now,  as  on  the  former  occasion,  the  irreconcileable  minority 
declares  its  intention  to  support  either  your  Democratic  opponent,  or  a 
third  candidate.  The  reason  assigned  for  this  course  is  dissatisfaction 
with  the  decision  of  certain  contests  in  the  making  up  of  the  Temporary 
Roll  of  the  Convention.  These  contests  were  decided  by  the  tribunal 
upon  which  the  law  that  has  governed  the  Republican  party  for  more 
than  forty  years  imposed  the  duty  of  deciding  such  contests.  So  long 
as  those  decisions  were  made  honestly  and  in  good  faith  all  persons 
were  bound  to  accept  them  as  conclusive  in  the  making  up  of  the  Tem- 
porary Roll  of  the  Convention,  and  neither  in  the  facts  and  arguments 
produced  before  the  National  Committee,  the  Committee  on  Credentials, 
and  the  Convention  itself,  nor  otherwise,  does  there  appear  just  ground 
for  impeaching  the  honesty  and  good  faith  of  the  Committee's  decisions. 
Both  the  making  up  of  the  Temporary  Roll,  and  the  rights  accorded  to 
the  persons  upon  that  roll,  whose  seats  were  contested,  were  in  accord- 
ance with  the  long-established  and  unquestioned  rules  of  law  governing 
the  party,  and  founded  upon  justice  and  commonsense.  Your  title  to 
the  nomination  is  as  clear  and  unimpeachable  as  the  title  of  any  candi- 
date of  any  party  since  political  conventions  began. 

Your  selection  has  a  broader  basis  than  a  mere  expression  of  choice 
between  different  party  leaders  representing  the  same  ideas.  You  have 
been  nominated  because  you  stand  pre-eminently  for  certain  fixed  and 

413 


414  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

essential  principles  which  the  Republican  party  maintains.  You  believe 
in  preserving  the  constitutional  government  of  the  United  States.  You 
believe  in  the  rule  of  law  rather  than  the  rule  of  men.  You  realize 
that  the  only  safety  for  nations,  as  for  individuals,  is  to  establish  and 
abide  by  declared  principles  of  action.  You  are  in  sympathy  with  the 
great  practical  rules  of  right  conduct  that  the  American  people  have  set 
up  for  their  own  guidance  and  self-restraint  in  the  limitations  of  the 
Constitution — the  limitations  upon  governmental  and  official  power  essen- 
tial to  the  preservation  of  liberty  and  justice.  You  know  that  to  sweep 
away  these  wise  rules  of  self-restraint  would  not  be  progress  but  deca- 
dence. You  know  that  the  great  declarations  of  principle  in  our  Con- 
stitution cannot  be  made  an  effectual  guide  to  conduct  in  any  other 
way  than  by  judicial  judgment  upon  attempts  to  violate  them;  and  you 
maintain  the  independence,  dignity  and  authority  of  the  Courts  of  the 
United  States.  You  are  for  progress  along  all  the  lines  of  national 
development,  but  for  progress  which  still  preserves  the  good  we  already 
have  and  holds  fast  to  those  essential  elements  of  American  institutions 
which  have  made  our  country  prosperous  and  great  and  free.  You 
represent  the  spirit  of  kindly  consideration  by  every  American  citizen 
towards  all  his  fellows,  respect  for  the  right  of  adverse  opinion,  peace- 
able methods  of  settling  differences — the  spirit  and  method  which  make 
ordered  and  peaceful  self-government  possible,  as  distinguished  from 
intolerance  and  hatred  and  violence. 

In  respect  of  all  these  things,  our  country  is  threatened  from  many 
sides.  It  is  your  high  privilege  to  be  the  standard-bearer  for  the  cause 
in  which  you  believe;  and  in  that  cause  of  peace  and  justice  and  liberty 
the  millions  of  your  countrymen  who  believe  as  you  do  will  stand  with 
you,  and  the  great  party  which  was  born  in  the  struggle  for  constitu- 
tional freedom  will  support  you. 


PRESIDENT  TAFT'S  REPLY. 

MR.  ROOT  AND  CHAIRMEN  OF  THE  NOTIFICATION  COMMITTEE: 

I  accept  the  nomination  which  you  tender.  I  do  so  with  profound 
gratitude  to  the  Republican  Party,  which  has  thus  honored  me  twice.  I 
accept  it  as  an  approval  of  what  I  have  done  under  its  mandate,  and 
as  an  expression  of  confidence  that  in  a  second  administration  I  will 
serve  the  public  well.  The  issue  presented  to  the  Convention,  over 
which  your  Chairman  presided  with  such  a  just  and  even  hand,  made  a 
crisis  in  the  party's  life.  A  faction  sought  to  force  the  party  to  violate 
a  valuable  and  time-honored  national  tradition  by  entrusting  the  power 
of  the  Presidency  for  more  than  two  terms  to  one  man,  and  that  man, 
one  whose  recently  avowed  political  views  would  have  committed  the 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN  NATIONAL  CONVENTION  415 

party  to  radical  proposals  involving  dangerous  changes  in  our  present 
constitutional  form  of  representative  government  and  our  independent 
judiciary. 

This  occasion  is  appropriate  for  the  expression  of  profound  gratitude 
at  the  victory  for  the  right  which  was  won  at  Chicago.  By  that  victory, 
the  Republican  Party  was  saved  for  future  usefulness.  It  has  been  the 
party  through  which  substantially  all  the  progress  and  development  in 
our  country's  history  in  the  last  fifty  years  has  been  finally  effected.  It 
carried  the  country  through  the  war  which  saved  the  Union,  and  through 
the  greenback  and  silver  crazes  to  a  sound  gold  basis,  which  saved  the 
country's  honor  and  credit.  It  fought  the  Spanish  war  and  successfully 
solved  the  new  problems  of  our  island  possessions.  It  met  the  incidental 
evils  of  the  enormous  trade  expansion  and  extended  combinations  of 
capital  from  1897  until  now  by  a  successful  crusade  against  the  attempt 
of  concentrated  wealth  to  control  the  country's  politics  and  its  trade. 
It  enacted  regulatory  legislation  to  make  the  railroads  the  servants  and 
not  the  masters  of  the  people.  It  has  enforced  the  anti-trust  laws  until 
those  who  were  not  content  with  anything  but  monopolistic  control  of 
various  branches  of  industry  are  now  acquiescent  in  any  plan  which  shall 
give  them  scope  for  legitimate  expansion  and  assure  them  immunity 
from  reckless  prosecution. 

The  Republican  Party  has  been  alive  to  the  modern  change  in  the 
view  of  the  duty  of  government  toward  the  people.  Time  was  when 
the  least  government  was  thought  the  best,  and  the  policy  which  left 
all  to  the  individual,  unmolested  and  unaided  by  government,  was  deemed 
the  wisest.  Now  the  duty  of  government  by  positive  law  to  further 
equality  of  opportunity  in  respect  of  the  weaker  classes  in  their  dealings 
with  the  stronger  and  more  powerful  is  clearly  recognized.  It  is  in 
this  direction  that  real  progress  toward  the  greater  human  happiness  is 
being  made.  It  has  been  suggested  that  under  our  Constitution,  such 
tendency  to  so-called  paternalism  was  impossible.  Nothing  is  further 
from  the  fact.  The  power  of  the  Federal  Government  to  tax  and  expend 
for  the  general  welfare  has  long  been  exercised,  and  the  admiration  one 
feels  for  our  Constitution  is  increased  when  we  perceive  how  readily 
that  instrument  lends  itself  to  wider  governmental  functions  in  the  pro- 
motion of  the  comfort  of  the  people. 

The  list  of  legislative  enactments  for  the  uplifting  of  those  of  our 
people  suffering  a  disadvantage  in  their  social  and  economic  relation 
enacted  by  the  Republican  Party  in  this  and  previous  administrations  is 
a  long  one,  and  shows  the  party  sensitive  to  the  needs  of  the  people 
under  the  new  view  of  governmental  responsibility. 

Thus  there  was  the  pure- food  law  and  the  meat-inspection  law  to 
hold  those  who  dealt  with  the  food  of  millions  to  a  strict  accountability 
for  its  healthful  condition. 


416  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

The  frightful  loss  of  life  and  limb  to  railway  employees  in  times 
past  has  now  been  greatly  reduced  by  statutes  requiring  safety  appli- 
ances and  proper  inspection,  of  which  two  important  ones  were  passed 
in  this  administration. 

The  dreadful  mining  disasters  in  which  thousands  of  miners  met 
their  death  have  led  to  a  Federal  mining  bureau  and  generous  appro- 
priations to  further  discovery  of  methods  of  reducing  explosions  and 
other  dangers  in  mining. 

The  statistics  as  to  infant  mortality  and  as  to  the  too  early  employ- 
ment of  children  in  factories  have  prompted  the  creation  of  a  children's 
bureau,  by  which  the  whole  public  can  be  made  aware  of  actual  condi- 
tions in  the  States  and  the  best  methods  of  reforming  them  for  the 
saving  and  betterment  of  the  coming  generation. 

The  passage  of  time  has  brought  the  burdens  and  helplessness  of 
old  age  to  many  of  those  veterans  of  the  Civil  War  who  exposed  their 
lives  in  the  supreme  struggle  to  save  the  Nation,  and,  recognizing  this, 
Congress  has  added  to  previous  provision  which  patriotic  gratitude  had 
prompted,  a  substantial  allowance,  which  may  be  properly  characterized 
as  an  old  men's  pension. 

By  the  white-slave  act  we  have  sought  to  save  unfortunates  from 
their  own  degradation,  and  have  forbidden  the  use  of  interstate  com- 
merce in  promoting  vice. 

In  the  making  of  the  contract  of  employment  between  a  railway 
employee  and  the  company,  the  two  do  not  stand  on  an  equality,  and 
the  terms  of  the  contract  which  the  common  law  implied  were  unfair 
to  the  employee.  Congress,  in  the  exercise  of  its  control  over  interstate 
commerce,  has  re-formed  the  contract  to  be  implied  and  has  made  it 
more  favorable  to  the  employee.  Indeed,  a  more  radical  bill,  which  I 
fully  approve,  has  passed  the  Senate  and  is  now  pending  in  the  House 
which  requires  interstate  railways  in  effect  to  insure  the  lives  of  their 
employees  and  to  make  provision  for  prompt  settlement  of  the  amount 
due  under  the  law  after  death  or  injury  has  occurred. 

By  the  railroad  legislation  of  this  administration,  shippers  have 
been  placed  much  nearer  an  equality  with  the  railroads  whose  lines  they 
use,  than  ever  before.  Rates  can  not  be  increased  except  after  the 
Interstate  Commerce  Commission  shall  hold  the  increase  reasonable. 
Orders  against  railways  which  under  previous  acts  might  be  stayed  by 
judicial  injunction  that  involved  a  delay  of  two  years  can  now  be 
examined  and  finally  passed  on  by  the  Commerce  Court  in  about  six 
months.  Patrons  of  express,  telegraph,  and  telephone  companies  may 
now  secure  reasonable  rates  by  complaint  to  the  commission. 

Many  millions  are  spent  annually  by  the  Agricultural  Department 
to  investigate  the  best  methods  of  treating  the  soil  and  carrying  on  agri- 
culture and  to  publish  the  results.  We  are  now  looking  into  the  ques- 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  417 

tion  of  the  best  system  for  securing  such  credit  for  the  farmer  at  rea- 
sonable rates  as  will  enable  him  better  to  equip  his  farm  and  to  follow 
the  rules  of  good  farming,  which  we  must  encourage.  Our  platform,  I 
am  glad  to  say,  specifies  this  is  a  reform  to  which  the  party  is  pledged. 
The  necessity  for  stimulating  greater  production  of  foodstuffs  per  acre 
becomes  imperative  as  the  vacant  lands  available  for  the  extension  of 
acreage  are  filling  ^up  and  the  supply  of  foodstuffs  as  compared  with 
the  demand  is  growing  less  each  year. 

Congress  has  sought  to  encourage  the  movement  toward  eight  hours 
a  day  for  all  manual  labor  by  the  recent  enactment  of  a  new  law  on  the 
subject  more  stringent  in  its  provisions,  regarding  works  on  government 
contracts. 

One  of  the  great  defects  in  our  present  system  of  government  is  the 
delay  and  expense  of  litigation,  which  of  course  works  against  the  poor 
litigant.  The  Supreme  Court  is  now  engaged  in  a  revision  of  the  equity 
rules  to  minimize  delay  and  expense  as  to  half  our  Federal  litigation. 
The  workmen's  compensation  act  will  relieve  our  courts  of  law  of  a 
very  heavy  part  of  the  present  dockets  on  the  law  side  of  the  court 
and  give  the  court  more  opportunity  to  speed  the  remaining  causes. 
The  last  Congress  codified  the  Federal  court  provisions,  and  we  may 
look  for,  and  should  insist  upon,  a  reform  in  the  law  procedure  so  as 
to  promote  dispatch  of  business  and  reduction  in  costs. 

We  have  adopted  in  this  administration,  after  very  considerable 
opposition,  the  postal  savings  banks,  which  work  directly  on  the  promo- 
tion of  thrift  among  the  people.  By  reason  of  the  payment  of  only  2 
per  cent,  interest  on  deposits,  they  do  not  compete  with  the  savings 
banks.  But  they  do  attract  those  who  fear  banks  and  are  unwilling  to 
trust  their  funds  except  to  a  governmental  agency.  Experience,  how- 
ever, leads  depositors  to  a  knowledge  of  the  importance  of  interest,  and 
then  seeking  a  higher  rate,  they  transfer  their  accounts  to  the  savings 
banks.  In  this  way  the  savings-bank  deposits,  instead  of  being  reduced, 
are  increased,  and  there  is  thus  available  a  much  larger  fund  for  gen- 
eral investment. 

For  some  years  the  administration  has  been  recommending  the 
parcels  post,  and  now  I  am  glad  to  say  a  measure  will  probably  be 
adopted  by  Congress  authorizing  the  government  to  avail  itself  of  the 
existing  machinery  of  the  Post  Office  Department  to  carry  parcels  at  a 
reasonably  low  rate,  so  that  the  communication  between  the  city  and 
the  country  in  ordinary  merchandise  will  be  proportionately  as  low 
priced  and  as  prompt  as  the  newspaper  and  letter  delivery  through  the 
post  offices  now.  This  must  contribute  greatly  to  reducing  the  cost  and 
increasing  the  comfort  of  living. 

We  are  considering  the  changing  needs  of  the  people  in  the  dispo- 
sition of  our  public  lands  and  their  conservation.  As  those  lands  owned 


418  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

by  the  government  and  useful  for  agricultural  purposes  which  remain 
are  as  a  whole  less  desirable  as  homesteads  than  those  which  have  been 
already  settled,  it  has  been  properly  thought  wise  to  reduce  the  time  for 
perfecting  a  homestead  claim  from  five  years  to  three,  and  this  whether 
on  land  within  the  rain  area  or  in  those  arid  tracts  within  the  reclama- 
tion districts. 

Again,  a  bill  has  passed  the  Senate  and  is  likely,  to  pass  the  House 
which  will  not  compel  the  settlers  on  reclamation  lands  to  wait  ten  years 
and  until  full  payment  of  what  they  owe  the  government  before  they 
receive  a  title,  but  which  gives  a  title  after  three  years  with  a  first  gov- 
ernment lien. 

On  the  other  hand,  the  withdrawal  of  coal  lands,  phosphate  lands, 
and  oil  lands  and  water-power  sites  is  still  maintained  until  Congress 
shall  provide,  on  the  principles  of  proper  conservation,  a  system  of  dis- 
position which  will  attract  capital  on  the  one  hand  and  retain  sufficient 
control  by  the  government  on  the  other  to  prevent  the  evil  of  concen- 
trating absolute  ownership  in  a  few  persons  of  those  sources  for  the 
production  of  necessities. 

POPULAR    UNREST. 

In  the  work  of  rousing  the  people  to  the  danger  that  threatened  our 
civilization  from  the  abuses  of  concentrated  wealth  and  the  power  it 
was  likely  to  exercise,  the  public  imagination  was  wrought  upon  and  a 
reign  of  sensational  journalism  and  unjust  and  unprincipled  muckraking 
has  followed,  in  which  much  injustice  has  been  done  to  honest  men. 
Demagogues  have  seized  the  opportunity  further  to  inflame  the  public 
mind  and  have  sought  to  turn  the  peculiar  conditions  to  their  advantage. 

We  are  living  in  an  age  in  which  by  exaggeration  of  the  defects  of 
our  present  conditions,  by  false  charges  of  responsibility  for  it  against 
individuals  and  classes,  by  holding  up  to  the  feverish  imagination  of  the 
less  fortunate  and  the  discontented  the  possibilities  of  a  millennium,  a 
condition  of  popular  unrest  has  been  produced.  New  parties  are  being 
formed,  with  the  proposed  purpose  of  satisfying  this  unrest  by  promising 
a  panacea.  In  so  far  as  inequality  of  condition  can  be  lessened  and 
equality  of  opportunity  can  be  promoted  by  improvement  of  our  edu- 
cational system,  the  betterment  of  the  laws  to  insure  the  quick  adminis- 
tration of  justice,  and  by  the  prevention  of  the  acquisition  of  privilege 
without  just  compensation,  in  so  far  as  the  adoption  of  the  legislation 
above  recited  and  laws  of  a  similar  character  may  aid  the  less  fortunate 
in  their  struggle  with  the  hardships  of  life,  all  are  in  sympathy  with  a 
continued  effort  to  remedy  injustice  and  to  aid  the  weak,  and  I  venture 
to  say  that  there  is  no  national  administration  in  which  more  real  steps 
of  such  progress  have  been  taken  than  in  the  present  one.  But  in  so  far 
as  the  propaganda  for  the  satisfaction  of  unrest  involves  the  promise  of 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  419 

a  millennium,  a  condition  in  which  the  rich  are  to  be  made  reasonably 
poor  and  the  poor  reasonably  rich  by  law,  we  are  chasing  a  phantom ; 
we  are  holding  out  to  those  whose  unrest  we  fear  a  prospect  and  a 
dream,  a  vision  of  the  impossible. 

In  the  ultimate  analysis,  I  fear,  the  equal  opportunity  which  is 
sought  by  many  of  those  who  proclaim  the  coming  of  so-called  social 
justice  involves  a  forced  division  of  property,  and  that  means  socialism. 
In  the  abuses  of  the  last  two  decades  it  is  true  that  ill-gotten  wealth 
has  been  concentrated  in  some  undeserving  hands,  and  if  it  were  possible 
to  redistribute  it  on  any  equitable  principle  to  those  from  whom  it  was 
taken  without  adequate  or  proper  compensation,  it  would  be  a  good 
result  to  bring  about.  But  this  is  obviously  impossible  and  impracticable. 
All  that  can  be  done  is  to  treat  this  as  one  incidental  evil  of  a  great 
expansive  movement  in  the  material  progress  of  the  world  and  to  make 
sure  that  there  will  be  no  recurrence  of  such  evil.  In  this  regard  we 
have  made  great  progress  and  reform,  as  in  respect  to  secret  rebates  in 
railways,  the  improper  conferring  of  public  franchises,  and  the  im- 
munity of  monopolizing  trusts  and  combinations.  The  misfortunes  of 
ordinary  business,  the  division  of  the  estates  of  wealthy  men  at  their 
death,  the  chances  of  speculation  which  undue  good  fortune  seems 
often  to  stimulate,  operating  as  causes  through  a  generation,  will  do 
much  to  divide  up  such  large  fortunes.  It  is  far  better  to  await  the 
diminution  of  this  evil  by  natural  causes  than  to  attempt  what  would 
soon  take  on  the  aspect  of  confiscation  or  to  abolish  the  principle  and 
institution  of  private  property  and  to  change  to  socialism.  Socialism 
involves  the  taking  away  of  the  motive  for  acquisition,  saving,  energy, 
and  enterprise,  and  a  futile  attempt  by  committees  to  apportion  the 
rewards  due  for  productive  labor.  It  means  stagnation  and  retrogres- 
sion. It  destroys  the  mainspring  of  human  action  that  has  carried  the 
world  on  and  upward  for  2,000  years. 

I  do  not  say  that  the  two  gentlemen  who  now  lead,  one  the  Demo- 
cratic party  and  the  other  the  former  Republicans  who  have  left  their 
party,  in  their  attacks  upon  existing  conditions,  and  in  their  attempt  to 
satisfy  the  popular  unrest  by  promises  of  remedies,  are  consciously  em- 
bracing socialism.  The  truth  is  that  they  do  not  offer  any  definite  legis- 
lation or  policy  by  which  the  happy  conditions  they  promise  are  to  be 
brought  about,  but  if  their  promises  mean  anything,  they  lead  directly 
toward  the  appropriation  of  what  belongs  to  one  man,  to  another.  The 
truth  is,  my  friends,  both  those  who  have  left  the  Republican  party 
under  the  inspiration  of  their  present  leader,  and  our  old  opponents,  the 
Democrats,  under  their  candidate,  are  going  in  a  direction  they  do  not 
definitely  know,  toward  an  end  they  can  not  definitely  describe,  with 
but  one  chief  and  clear  object,  and  that  is  of  acquiring  power  for  their 
party  by  popular  support  through  the  promise  of  a  change  for  the  better. 


420  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

What  they  clamor  for  is  a  change.  They  ask  for  a  change  in  govern- 
ment so  that  the  government  may  be  restored  to  the  people,  as  if  this 
had  not  been  a  people's  government  since  the  beginning  of  the  Con- 
stitution. I  have  the  fullest  sympathy  with  every  reform  in  govern- 
mental and  election  machinery  which  shall  facilitate  the  expression  of 
the  popular  will  as  the  short  ballot  and  the  reduction  in  the  number  of 
elective  offices  to  make  it  possible.  But  these  gentlemen  propose  to 
reform  the  government,  whose  present  defects,  if  any,  are  due  to  the 
failure  of  the  people  to  devote  as  much  time  as  is  necessary  to  their 
political  duties,  by  requiring  a  political  activity  by  the  people  three  times 
that  which  thus  far  the  people  have  been  willing  to  assume;  and  thus 
their  remedies,  instead  of  exciting  the  people  to  further  interest  and 
activity  in  the  government,  will  tire  them  into  such  an  indifference  as 
still  further  to  remand  control  of  public  affairs  to  a  minority. 

But  after  we  have  changed  all  the  governmental  machinery  so  as  to 
permit  instantaneous  expression  of  the  people  in  constitutional  amend- 
ments, in  statutes,  and  in  recall  of  public  agents,  what  then?  Votes  are 
not  bread,  constitutional  amendments  are  not  work,  referendums  do  not 
pay  rent  or  furnish  houses,  recalls  do  not  furnish  clothing,  initiatives  do 
not  supply  employment  or  relieve  inequalities  of  condition  or  of  oppor- 
tunity. We  still  ought  to  have  set  before  us  the  definite  plans  to  bring 
on  complete  equality  of  opportunity  and  to  abolish  hardship  and  evil  for 
humanity.  We  listen  for  them  in  vain. 

Instead  of  giving  us  the  benefit  of  any  specific  remedies  for  the 
hardships  and  evils  of  society  they  point  out,  they  follow  their  urgent 
appeals  for  closer  association  of  the  people  in  legislation  by  an  attempt 
to  cultivate  the  hostility  of  the  people  to  the  courts  and  to  represent 
that  they  are  in  some  form  upholding  injustice  and  are  obstructing  the 
popular  will.  Attempts  are  made  to  take  away  all  those  safeguards  for 
maintaining  the  independence  of  the  judiciary  which  are  so  carefully 
framed  in  our  Constitution.  These  attempts  find  expression  in  the 
policy,  on  the  one  hand,  of  the  recall  of  judges,  a  system  under  which  a 
judge  whose  decision  in  one  case  may  temporarily  displease  the  electorate 
is  to  be  deprived  at  once  of  his  office  by  a  popular  vote,  a  pernicious 
system  embodied  in  the  Arizona  constitution  and  which  the  Democrats 
of  the  House  and  Senate  refused  to  condemn  as  the  initial  policy  of  a 
new  State.  The  same  spirit  manifested  itself  in  the  vote  by  Demo- 
cratic Senators  on  the  proposition,  first,  to  abolish  the  Commerce  Court, 
and,  second,  to  abolish  judges  by  mere  act  of  repeal,  although  under 
the  Constitution  their  terms  are  for  life,  on  no  ground  except  that  they 
did  not  like  some  of  the  court's  recent  decisions.  Another  form  of 
hostility  to  the  judiciary  is  shown  in  the  grotesque  proposition  by  the 
leader  of  the  former  Republicans  who  have  left  their  party,  for  a  recall 
of  decisions,  so  that  a  decision  on  a  point  of  constitutional  law,  having 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL  CONVENTION  421 

been  rendered  by  the  highest  court  capable  of  rendering  it,  shall  then 
be  submitted  to  popular  vote  to  determine  whether  it  ought  to  be  sus- 
tained. Again,  the  Democratic  party  in  Congress  and  convention  shows 
its  desire  to  weaken  the  courts  by  forbidding  the  use  of  the  writ  of 
injunction  to  protect  a  lawful  business  against  the  destructive  effect  of 
a  secondary  boycott  and  by  interposing  a  jury  in  contempt  proceedings 
brought  to  enforce  the  court's  order  and  decrees.  These  provisions 
are  really  class  legislation  designed  to  secure  immunity  for  lawlessness 
in  labor  disputes  on  the  part  of  the  laborers,  but  operating  much  more 
widely  to  paralyze  the  arm  of  the  court  in  cases  which  do  not  involve 
labor  disputes  at  all.  The  hostility  to  the  judiciary  and  the  measures  to 
take  away  its  power  and  its  independence  constitute  the  chief  definite 
policy  that  can  be  fairly  attributed  to  that  class  of  statesmen  and  re- 
formers whose  control  the  Republican  party  escaped  at  Chicago  and  to 
whom  the  Democratic  party  yielded  at  Baltimore. 

The  Republican  party  stands  for  none  of  these  innovations.  It 
refuses  to  make  changes  simply  for  the  purpose  of  making  a  change, 
and  cultivating  popular  hope  that  in  the  change  something  beneficial, 
undefined,  will  take  place.  It  does  not  believe  that  human  nature  has 
changed.  It  still  believes  it  is  possible  in  this  world  that  the  fruits  of 
energy,  courage,  enterprise,  attention  to  duty,  hard  work,  thrift,  provi- 
dence, restraint  of  appetite  and  of  passions  will  continue  to  have  their 
reward  under  our  present  system,  and  that  laziness,  lack  of  attention, 
lack  of  industry,  the  yielding  to  appetite  and  passion,  carelessness,  dis- 
honesty, and  disloyalty  will  ultimately  find  their  own  punishment  in  the 
world  here.  We  do  not  deny  that  there  are  exceptions,  and  that  seeming 
fortune  follows  wickedness  and  misfortune  virtue,  but,  on  the  whole,  we 
are  optimists  and  believe  that  the  rule  is  the  other  way.  We  do  not 
know  any  way  to  avoid  human  injustice  but  to  perfect  our  laws  for 
administering  justice,  to  develop  the  morality  of  the  individual,  to  give 
direct  supervision  and  aid  to  those  who  are,  or  are  likely  to  be,  op- 
pressed, and  to  give  as  full  scope  as  possible  to  individual  effort  and  its 
rewards.  Wherever  we  can  see  that  a  statute  which  does  not  deprive 
any  person  or  class  of  what  is  his  is  going  to  help  many  people,  we  are 
in  favor  of  it.  We  favor  the  greatest  good  to  the  greatest  number,  but 
we  do  not  believe  that  this  can  be  accomplished  by  minimizing  the  re- 
wards of  individual  effort,  or  by  infringing  or  destroying  the  right  of 
property,  which,  next  to  the  right  of  liberty,  has  been  and  is  the  greatest 
civilizing  institution  in  history.  In  other  words,  the  Republican  party 
believes  in  progress  along  the  lines  upon  which  we  have  attained  prog- 
ress already.  We  do  not  believe  that  we  can  reach  a  millennium  by  a 
sudden  change  in  all  our  existing  institutions.  We  believe  that  we  have 
made  progress  from  the  beginning  until  now,  and  that  the  progress  is 
to  continue  into  the  far  future ;  that  it  is  reasonable  progress  that  ex- 


422  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

perience  has  shown  to  be  really  useful  and  helpful,  and  from  which  there 
is  no  reaction  to  something  worse. 

The  Republican  party  stands  for  the  Constitution  as  it  is,  with  such 
amendments  adopted  according  to  its  provisions  as  new  conditions 
thoroughly  understood  may  require.  We  believe  that  it  has  stood  the 
test  of  time,  and  that  there  have  been  disclosed  really  no  serious  defects 
in  its  operation. 

It  is  said  this  is  not  an  issue  in  the  campaign.  It  seems  to  me  it  is 
the  supreme  issue.  The  Democratic  party  and  the  former  Republicans 
who  have  left  their  party  are  neither  of  them  to  be  trusted  on  this  sub- 
ject, as  I  have  shown.  The  Republican  party  is  the  nucleus  of  that 
public  opinion  which  favors  constant  progress  and  development  along 
safe  and  sane  lines  and  under  the  Constitution  as  we  have  had  it  for 
more  than  one  hundred  years,  and  which  believes  in  the  maintenance  of 
an  independent  judiciary  as  the  keystone  of  our  liberties  and  the  balance 
wheel  by  which  the  whole  governmental  machinery  is  kept  within  the 
original  plan. 

WHAT   THE   ADMINISTRATION    HAS    DONE. 

The  normal  and  logical  question  which  ought  to  be  asked  and  an- 
swered in  determining  whether  an  administration  should  be  continued 
in  power  is,  How  has  the  government  been  administered?  Has  it  been 
economical  and  efficient?  Has  it  aided  or  obstructed  business  prosperity? 
Has  it  made  for  progress  in  bettering  the  condition  of  the  people  and 
especially  of  the  wage  earner?  Ought  its  general  policies  to  approve 
themselves  to  the  people? 

During  this  administration  we  have  given  special  attention  to  the 
machinery  of  government  with  a  view  to  increasing  its  efficiency  and 
reducing  its  cost.  For  twenty  years  there  has  been  a  continuous  expan- 
sion in  every  direction  of  the  governmental  functions  and  a  necessary 
increase  in  the  civil  and  military  servants  by  which  these  functions  are 
performed.  The  expenditures  of  the  government  have  normally  in- 
creased from  year  to  year  on  an  average  of  nearly  4  per  cent.  There 
never  has  been  a  systematic  investigation  and  reorganization  of  this  gov- 
ernmental structure  with  a  view  to  eliminating  duplications,  to  uniting 
bureaus  where  union  is  possible  and  more  effective,  and  to  making  the 
whole  organization  more  compact  and  its  parts  more  closely  co-ordi- 
nated. As  a  beginning,  we  examined  closely  the  estimates.  These,  un- 
less watched,  grow  from  year  to  year  under  the  natural  tendency  of  the 
bureau  chiefs.  The  first  estimates  which  were  presented  to  us  we  cut 
some  $50,000,000,  and  this  policy  we  have  maintained  through  the  admin- 
istration and  have  prevented  the  normal  annual  increase  in  government 
expenditures,  so  the  result  is  that  the  deficit  of  $58,735,000,  which  we 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN  NATIONAL  CONVENTION  423 

found  on  the  1st  of  July,  1909,  was  changed  on  the  1st  of  July,  1910,  by 
increase  of  the  revenues  under  the  Payne  law,  including  the  corporation 
tax,  to  a  surplus  of  $15,806,000;  on  July  1,  1911,  to  a  surplus  of 
$47,234,000,  and  on  July  1,  1912,  to  a  surplus  of  $36,336,000.  The  ex- 
penditures for  1909  were  $662,324,000;  for  1910,  $659,705,000;  for  1911, 
$654,138,000,  and  for  1912,  $654,804,000.  These  figures  of  surplus  and 
expenditure  do  not  include  any  receipts  or  expenditures  on  account  of 
the  Panama  Canal. 

I  secured  an  appropriation  for  the  appointment  of  an  Economy  and 
Efficiency  Commission,  consisting  of  the  ablest  experts  in  the  country, 
and  they  have  been  working  for  two  years  on  the  question  of  how  the 
government  departments  may  be  reorganized  and  what  changes  can  be 
made  with  a  view  to  giving  it  greater  effectiveness  for  governmental 
purposes  on  the  one  hand  and  securing  this  at  considerably  less  cost  on 
the  other.  I  have  transmitted  to  Congress  from  time  to  time  the  rec- 
ommendations of  this  commission,  and  while  they  can  not  all  be  adopted 
at  one  session,  and  while  their  recommendations  have  not  been  rounded 
and  complete  because  of  the  necessity  for  taking  greater  time,  I  think 
that  the  Democratic  Appropriations  Committee  of  the  House  has  be- 
come convinced  that  we  are  on  the  right  road  and  that  substantial  re- 
form may  be  effected  through  the  adoption  of  most  of  the  plans  recom- 
mended by  this  commission. 

PANAMA   CANAL. 

For  the  benefit  of  our  own  people  and  of  the  world,  we  have  carried 
on  the  work  of  the  Panama  Canal  so  that  we  can  now  look  forward 
with  confidence  to  its  completion  within  eighteen  months.  The  work 
has  been  a  remarkable  one,  and  has  involved  the  expenditure  of  $30,000,- 
000  to  $40,000,000  annually  for  a  series  of  years,  and  yet  it  has  been 
attended  with  no  scandal,  and  with  a  development  of  such  engineering 
and  medical  skill  and  ingenuity  as  to  command  the  admiration  of  ths 
world  and  to  bring  the  highest  credit  to  our  Corps  of  Army  Engineers 
and  our  Army  Medical  Corps. 

FOREIGN    RELATIONS. 

In  our  foreign  relations  we  have  maintained  peace  everywhere  and 
sought  to  promote  its  continuance  and  permanence. 

We  have  renewed  the  Japanese  treaty  for  twelve  more  years  and 
have  avoided  certain  difficulties  that  were  supposed  to  be  insuperable  as 
between  the  two  countries  by  an  arrangement  which  satisfies  both. 

We  negotiated  certain  broad  treaties  for  the  promotion  of  universal 
arbitration  which,  if  they  had  been  ratified,  would  have  greatly  contrib- 


424  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

uted  toward  perfecting  machinery  for  securing  general  peace.  These 
the  Democratic  minority  of  the  Senate  not  being  willing  to  concur  in, 
withheld  the  necessary  two-thirds  vote,  and  amended  the  treaties  in 
such  a  way  as  to  make  it  doubtful  whether  they  are  worth  preserving. 
In  China  we  have  exercised  a  beneficial  influence  as  one  of  the 
powers  interested  in  aiding  that  great  country  in  its  forward  movement 
and  in  its  efforts  to  establish  and  maintain  popular  government.  In  order 
that  our  influence  might  be  useful,  we  have  acted  with  the  other  great 
powers,  and  we  have  exercised  our  influence  effectively  toward  the 
strengthening  of  the  popular  movement  and  giving  the  Republic  gov- 
ernmental stability.  We  have  lent  our  good  offices  in  the  negotiation  of 
a  loan  essential  to  the  continuance  of  the  Republic  and  which  we  hope 
that  China  will  accept  under  such  conditions  of  supervision  as  are  ade- 
quate to  the  security  of  the  lenders  and  at  the  same  time  will  be  of 
great  assistance  to  those  in  whose  behalf  the  loan  is  made,  the  people  of 
China. 

Our  Mexican  neighbor  on  the  south  has  been  disturbed  by  two  revo- 
lutions, and  these  have  necessarily  brought  a  strain  upon  our  relations 
because  of  the  losses  sustained  by  American  citizens,  both  in  property 
and  in  life,  due  to  the  lawlessness  which  could  not  be  prevented  under 
conditions  of  civil  war.  The  pressure  for  intervention  at  times  has  been 
great,  and  grounds  upon  which,  it  is  said,  we  might  have  intervened 
have  been  urged  upon  us,  but  this  administration  has  been  conscious  that 
one  hostile  step  in  intervention  and  the  passing  of  the  border  by  one 
regiment  of  troops  would  mean  war  with  Mexico,  the  expenditure  of 
hundreds  of  millions  of  dollars,  the  loss  of  thousands  of  lives  in  thr 
tranquillization  of  that  country,  with  all  the  subsequent  problems  that 
would  arise  as  to  its  disposition  after  we  found  ourselves  in  complete 
armed  possession. 

In  order  to  avoid  the  plain  consequences,  it  seemed  the  course  of 
patriotism  and  of  wisdom  to  subject  ourselves  and  our  citizens  to  some 
degree  of  suffering  and  inconvenience  and  to  pass  over  with  a  strong 
protest  and  a  claim  for  damages  even  those  injuries  inflicted  on  our 
peaceful  citizens  in  our  own  territory  along  the  border  by  flying  bullets 
in  engagements  between  the  governmental  and  the  revolutionary  forces 
on  the  Mexican  side.  It  is  easy  to  arouse  popular  indignation  over  an 
instance  of  this  character.  It  is  easy  to  take  advantage  of  it  for  the 
purpose  of  justifying  aggressive  action,  and  it  is  easy  to  cultivate  politi- 
cal support  and  popularity  by  a  warlike  and  truculent  policy,  but  with 
the  familiarity  that  we  have  had  in  the  carrying  on  of  such  a  war  in 
the  Philippines  and  in  Cuba,  no  one  with  a  sense  of  responsibility  to 
the  American  people  would  involve  them  in  the  almost  unending  burden 
and  thankless  task  of  enforcing  peace  upon  these  15,000,000  ef  people 
fighting  among  themselves,  when  they  would  necessarily  all  turn  against 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL   CONVENTION  425 

us  at  the  first  manifestation  of  our  purpose  to  intervene.  I  am  very 
sure  that  the  course  of  self-restraint  that  the  administration  has  pur- 
sued in  respect  to  Mexico  will  vindicate  itself  in  the  pages  of  history. 

I  am  hopeful  that  the  present  government  is  now  rapidly  subduing 
the  insurrection  and  that  we  may  look  for  tranquillity  near  at  hand.  The 
demonstration  of  force  which  I  felt  compelled  to  make  in  the  early  part 
of  the  disturbance,  by  the  mobilization  of  some  15,000  or  20,000  troops 
in  Texas,  and  holding  maneuvers  there,  had  a  good  and  direct  effect 
and,  as  our  ambassador  and  consuls  report,  secured  much  increased  re- 
spect for  American  and  other  foreign  property  in  the  disturbances  that 
followed.  Similar  questions  have  arisen  in  Cuba,  but  we  have  been  able 
to  avoid  intervention,  and  to  aid  and  encourage  that  young  Republic  by 
suggestion  and  advice. 

I  am  glad  to  believe  that  we  have  had  more  peace  in  the  Central 
American  Republics  because  of  our  attention  to  their  needs  and  our 
activity  in  mediating  between  them  than  ever  before  in  the  history  of 
those  Republics. 

THE    NAVY. 

The  dignity  and  effectiveness  of  the  government  of  the  United 
States,  together  with  its  responsibility  for  the  protection  of  Hawaii, 
Porto  Rico,  Alaska,  Panama,  and  the  Philippines,  as  well  as  for  the 
maintenance  of  the  Monroe  doctrine,  require  the  maintenance  of  an 
Army  and  Navy  We  can  not  properly  reduce  either  below  its  present 
effective  size.  The  plan  for  the  maintenance  of  the  Navy  in  proportion 
to  the  growth  of  other  navies  of  the  world  calls  for  the  construction 
of  two  new  battleships  each  year.  The  Republican  party  has  felt  the 
responsibility  and  voted  the  ships.  The  Democratic  party,  in  House 
caucus,  repudiates  any  obligation  to  meet  this  national  need. 

THE    PHILIPPINES. 

The  Philippines  have  had  popular  government  and  much  pros- 
perity during  this  administration  in  view  of  the  free  trade  which  they 
have  enjoyed  under  the  Payne  bill.  The  continuance  of  the  same  policy 
with  respect  to  the  Philippines  will  make  the  prosperity  of  those  islands 
greater  and  greater  and  will  gradually  fit  their  people  for  self-govern- 
ment, and  nothing  will  prevent  such  results  except  the  ill-advised  policy 
proposed  by  the  Democratic  party  of  holding  before  the  Philippine 
people  independence  as  a  prospect  of  the  immediate  future. 

OUR   FOREIGN   TRADE. 

During  this  administration  everything  that  has  been  possible  has 
been  done  to  increase  our  foreign  trade,  and  under  the  Payne  bill  the 


426  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

maximum  and  minimum  clause  furnished  the  opportunity  for  removing 
discriminations  in  that  trade,  so  that  the  statistics  show  that  our  exports 
and  imports  reached  for  the  year  ending  July  1,  1912,  a  higher  figure 
than  ever  before  in  the  history  of  the  country.  Our  imports  for  the 
last  fiscal  year,  ending  July  1,  1912,  amounted  to  $1,653,426,174,  and  our 
exports  to  $2,049,320,199,  or  a  total  of  $3,857,648,262.  If  there  were 
added  to  this  the  business  done  with  Porto  Rico,  Hawaii,  and  the 
Philippines,  the  sum  total  of  our  foreign  trade  would  considerably  ex- 
ceed $4,000,000,000.  The  excess  of  our  exports  over  imports  is  $550,795,- 
914.  Manufactures  exported  during  the  year  1912  exceed  $1,000,000,000 
and  surpass  the  previous  record.  These  figures  seem  to  show  that  the 
business  is  large  enough  to  produce  prosperity,  and  the  fact  is  that  it 
has  done  so. 

PROTECTIVE   TARIFF. 

The  platform  of  1908  promised,  on  behalf  of  the  Republican  party, 
to  do  certain  things.  One  was  that  the  tariff  would  be  revised  at  an 
extra  session.  An  extra  session  was  called  and  the  tariff  was  revised. 
The  platform  did  not  say  in  specific  words  that  the  revision  would  be 
generally  downward,  but  I  construed  it  to  mean  that.  During  the 
pendency  of  the  bill  and  after  it  was  passed,  it  was  subjected  to  the 
most  vicious  misrepresentation.  It  was  said  to  be  a  bill  to  increase  the 
tariff  rather  than  to  reduce  it.  The  law  has  been  in  force  now  since 
August,  1909,  a  period  of  about  35  months.  We  are  able  to  judge  from 
its  operation  how  far  the  statement  is  true  that  it  did  reduce  duties. 

•  It  has  vindicated  itself.  Under  its  operation,  prosperity  has  been 
gradually  restored  since  the  panic  of  1907.  There  have  been  no  disas- 
trous failures  and  no  disastrous  strikes.  The  percentage  of  reduction 
below  the  Dingley  bill  is  shown  in  the  larger  free  list  and  in  the  lower 
percentage  of  the  tariff  collected  on  the  total  value  of  the  goods  im- 
ported. The  figures  show  that  under  the  Dingley  bill,  which  was  in 
force  144  months,  the  average  per  cent,  of  the  imports  that  came  in 
free  was  in  value  44.3  per  cent,  of  the  total  importations,  and  that  under 
the  Payne  bill,  which  has  been  in  force  35  months,  the  average  per  cent, 
in  value  of  the  imports  which  have  come  in  free  amounts  to  51.2  per 
cent,  of  the  total;  that  the  average  ad  valorem  of  the  duties  on  dutiable 
goods  under  the  12  years  of  the  Dingley  bill  was  45.8  per  cent.,  while 
under  the  35  months  of  the  Payne  bill  this  was  41.2  per  cent,  and  that 
the  average  ad  valorem  of  duties  on  all  the  imports  under  the  Dingley 
bill  was  25.5  per  cent,  while  under  the  Payne  bill  it  was  20.1  per  cent 
In  other  words,  considering  only  reduction  on  dutiable  goods,  the  re- 
duction in  duties  from  the  Dingley  bill  to  the  Payne  bill  was  10  per  cent, 
and  considering  reductions  on  all  imports,  it  amounted  to  21  per  cent. 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  427 

Under  the  provisions  of  the  Payne  bill  I  was  able  to  appoint  a 
Tariff  Board  to  make  investigations  into  each  schedule  with  a  view  to 
determining  the  cost  of  production  here  and  the  cost  of  production 
abroad  of  the  articles  named  in  the  schedule,  in  order  to  enable  Con- 
gress in  adjusting  this  schedule  to  know  what  rate  of  duty  was  neces- 
sary to  prevent  a  destructive  competition  from  European  countries  and 
the  closing  up  of  our  mills  and  other  sources  of  production.  We  are 
living  on  an  economic  basis  established  on  principles  of  protection.  A 
large  part  of  our  products  are  dependent  for  existence  upon  a  rate 
of  duty  sufficient  to  save  the  producer  from  foreign  competition  which 
would  make  the  continuance  of  his  business  impossible.  In  making  the 
Payne  bill  Congress  did  not  have  the  advantage  of  the  report  of 
the  Tariff  Board  showing  the  exact  facts.  If  it  had,  the  bill  would 
have  been  constructed  on  a  better  basis,  but  we  now  have  had  the 
Tariff  Board  working  and  it  has  made  a  report  on  the  production  of 
wool  and  the  manufacture  of  woolens  in  this  country  and  in  all 
the  countries  abroad,  and  has  given  similar  data  as  to  the  manufacture 
of  cotton.  If  the  Republican  Party  had  control  of  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, there  would  be  no  difficulty  now  in  passing  a  woolen  bill 
such  as  indeed  as  has  been  presented  by  the  Republicans  in  Congress, 
reducing  the  duty  on  wool  and  on  woolens  to  such  a  degree  as  not  to 
include  more  than  enough  to  enable  the  wool  industry  and  the  woolen 
industry  to  live  and  produce  a  reasonable  profit.  The  same  thing  could 
be  done  with  respect  to  the  cotton  industry.  On  the  other  hand,  our 
opponents,  the  Democrats,  presented  to  me  for  my  signature  a  woolen 
bill  and  a  cotton  bill,  both  of  which  if  allowed  to  become  laws,  as  the 
reports  of  the  Tariff  Board  show,  would  have  made  such  a  radical  cut 
in  the  rates  on  many  woolen  and  cotton  manufactures  as  seriously  to 
interfere  with  those  industries  in  this  country.  This  would  have  forced 
a  transfer  of  the  manufacture  to  England  and  Germany  and  other  for- 
eign countries. 

THE   RESULT   OF   DEMOCRATIC    SUCCESS. 

If  the  result  of  the  election  were  to  put  the  Democrats  completely  in 
control  of  all  branches  of  the  Government,  then  we  should  look  for  the 
reduction  of  duties  upon  all  those  articles  the  manufacture  of  which 
need  protection,  and  may  anticipate  a  serious  injury  to  a  large  part  of 
our  manufacturing  industry.  We  would  not  have  to  wait  for  actual 
legislation  on  this  subject;  the  very  prospect  of  Democratic  success  when 
its  policy  toward  our  great  protected  industries  became  understood  would 
postpone  indefinitely  the  coming  of  prosperity  and  tend  to  give  us 
a  recurrence  of  the  hard  times  that  we  had  in  the  decade  between  1890 
and  1897.  The  Democratic  platform  declares  protection  to  be  unconsti- 
tutional, although  it  has  been  the  motive  and  purpose  of  most  tariff 


428  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

bills  since  1879,  and  thus  indicates  as  clearly  as  possible  the  intention  to 
depart  from  a  protective  policy  at  once.  It  is  true  the  Democratic  plat- 
form says  that  the  change  to  the  policy  of  a  revenue  tariff  is  to  be  made 
in  such  a  way  as  not  to  injure  industry.  This  is  utterly  impossible  when 
we  are  on  a  protective  basis ;  and  it  is  conclusively  shown  to  be  so  by 
the  necessary  effect  of  bills  already  introduced  and  passed  by  the  Demo- 
cratic House  for  the  purpose  of  making  strides  toward  a  revenue  tariff. 
It  is  now  more  than  15  years  since  the  people  of  this  country  have 
had  an  experience  in  such  a  change  as  that  which  the  coming  in  of 
the  Democratic  Party  would  involve.  It  ought  to  be  brought  home  to  the 
people  as  cleary  as  possible  that  a  change  of  economic  policy,  such  as  that 
which  is  deliberately  proposed  in  the  Democratic  platform,  would  halt 
many  of  our  manufacturing  enterprises  and  throw  many  wage  earners 
out  of  employment,  would  injure  much  the  home  markets  which  the 
farmers  now  enjoy  for  their  products,  and  produce  a  condition  of  suffer- 
ing among  the  people  that  no  reforming  legislation  could  neutralize  or 
mitigate. 

THE   HIGH    COST   OF    LIVING   AND  THE  PAYNE   LAW. 

The  statement  has  been  widely  circulated  and  has  received  consider- 
able support  from  political  opponents,  that  the  tariff  act  of  1909  is  a 
chief  factor  in  creating  the  high  cost  of  living.  This  is  not  true.  A 
careful  investigation  will  show  that  the  phenomenon  of  increased  prices 
and  cost  of  living  is  world-wide  in  its  extent  and  quite  as  much  in 
evidence  in  other  countries  of  advanced  civilization  and  progressive  ten- 
dencies as  in  our  own.  Bitter  complaints  of  the  burden  of  increased 
prices  and  cost  of  living  have  been  made  not  only  in  this  country,  but 
even  in  countries  of  Asia  and  Africa.  Disorder  and  even  riots  have 
occurred  in  several  European  cities  because  of  the  unprecedented  cost  of 
food  products.  In  our  own  country,  changes  have  been  manifested  with- 
out regard  to  lower  or  higher  duties  in  the  tariff  act  of  1909.  Indeed, 
the  most  notable  increase  in  prices  has  been  in  the  case  of  products  where 
no  duties  are  imposed,  and  in  some  instances  in  which  they  were  dimin- 
ished or  removed  by  the  recent  tariff  act. 

It  is  difficult  to  understand  how  any  legislation  or  promise  in  a  politi- 
cal platform  can  remedy  this  universal  condition.  I  have  recommended 
the  creation  of  a  commission  to  study  this  subject  and  to  report  upon  all 
possible  methods  for  alleviating  the  hardship  of  which  the  people  com- 
plain, but  great  economic  tendencies,  notable  among  which  are  the  prac- 
tically universal  movement  from  the  country  to  the  city  and  the  increased 
supply  of  gold  have  been  the  most  potent  factors  in  causing  high  prices. 
These  facts  every  careful  student  of  the  situation  must  admit. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL  CONVENTION  429 

EFFECT   OF   EXCESSIVE   TARIFF   RATES. 

There  is  one  respect  in  which  high  tariff  rates  may  make  for  ex- 
orbitant prices.  If  the  rate  is  higher  than  the  difference  between  the 
cost  of  production  here  and  abroad,  then  it  tempts  the  manufacturers 
of  this  country  to  secure  monopoly  of  the  industry  and  to  increase 
prices  as  far  as  the  excessive  tariff  will  permit.  The  danger  may  be 
avoided  in  two  ways:  First,  by  carefully  adjusting  the  tariff  on  articles 
needing  protection  so  that  the  manufacturer  secures  only  enough  protec- 
tion to  pay  the  scale  of  high  wages  which  obtains  and  ought  to  obtain 
in  this  country  and  secure  a  reasonable  profit  from  the  business.  This 
may  be  done  by  the  continuance  of  the  Tariff  Board's  investigation  into 
the  facts,  which  will  enable  Congress  and  the  people  to  know  what  the 
tariff  as  to  each  schedule  ought  to  be.  The  American  public  may  rest 
assured  that  should  the  Republican  Party  be  restored  to  power  in  all 
legislative  branches,  all  the  schedules  in  the  present  tariff  of  which  com- 
plaint is  made  will  be  subjected  to  investigation  and  report  without  delay 
which  may  be  necessary  to  square  the  rates  with  the  facts. 

The  other  method  of  avoiding  danger  of  excessive  prices  from  ex- 
cessive duties  is  to  enforce  the  antitrust  laws  against  those  who  combine 
to  take  advantage  of  the  excessive  tariff  rates.  This  brings  me  to  the 
discussion  of  the  Sherman  Act. 

ANTI-TRUST   LAW. 

The  antitrust  law  was  passed  to  provide  against  the  organization 
and  maintenance  of  .combinations  for  the  manufacture  and  sale  of 
commodities,  which  through  restraint  of  trade,  either  by  contract  and 
agreement  or  by  various  methods  of  unfair  competition,  should  suppress 
competition,  establish  monopoly,  and  control  prices.  The  measure  has 
been  on  the  statute  book  since  1890,  and  many  times  under  construction 
by  the  courts,  but  not  until  the  litigation  against  the  Standard  Oil 
Company  and  against  the  American  Tobacco  Company  reached  the  Su- 
preme Court  did  the  statute  receive  an  authoritative  construction  which  is 
workable  and  intelligible. 

NEW    CONSTRUCTIVE    LEGISLATION. 

It  would  aid  the  business  public  if  specific  acts  of  unfair  trade  which 
characterize  the  establishment  of  unlawful  monopolies  should .  be  de- 
nounced as  misdemeanors  for  the  purpose,  first,  of  making  plainer  to 
the  public  what  must  be  avoided,  and,  second,  for  the  purpose  of 
punishing  such  acts  by  summary  procedure  without  the  necessity  for 
the  formidable  array  of  witnesses  and  the  lengthy  trials  essential  to 
establish  a  general  conspiracy  under  the  present  act.  But  there  is  great 


430  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

need  for  other  constructive  legislation  of  a  helpful  kind.  Combination  of 
capital  in  great  enterprises  should  be  encouraged,  if  within  the  law, 
for  everyone  must  recognize  that  progress  in  modern  business  is  by 
effective  combination  of  the  means  of  production  to  the  point  of  greatest 
economy.  It  should  be  our  purpose,  therefore,  to  put  large  interstate 
business  enterprises  acting  within  the  law  on  a  basis  of  security  by  offer- 
ing them  a  Federal  corporation  law  under  which  they  may  voluntarily 
incorporate.  Such  an  act  is  not  an  easy  one  to  draw  in  detail,  but 
its  general  outlines  are  clearly  defined  by  the  two  objects  of  such  a  law. 
One  is  to  secure  for  the  public,  through  competent  Government  agency, 
such  a  close  supervision  and  regulation  of  the  business  transactions  of 
the  corporation  as  to  preclude  a  violation  of  the  antitrust  and  other  laws 
to  which  the  business  of  the  corporation  must  square,  and  the  other  is  to 
furnish  to  business,  thus  incorporated  and  lawfully  conducted,  the  pro- 
tection and  security  which  it  must  enjoy  under  such  a  Federal  charter. 
With  the  faculties  conferred  by  such  a  charter,  corporations  could  do 
business  in  all  the  States  without  complying  with  conflicting  exac- 
tions of  State  legislatures,  and  could  be  sure  of  uniform  taxation,  i.  e., 
uniform  with  that  imposed  by  the  State  on  State  corporations  in  the 
same  business. 

OPPOSED    TO    PROPOSED    DRASTIC    AMENDMENTS. 

I  am  not  in  sympathy  with  the  purpose  to  make  the  antitrust  law 
more  drastic  by  such  a  provision  as  is  proposed  by  the  Democratic 
majority  of  the  investigating  committee  of  the  House,  for  imposing  a 
rule  as  to  burden  of  proof  upon  defendants  under  antitrust  prosecu- 
tions different  from  that  which  defendants  in  other  prosecutions  enjoy. 
This  can  not  be  suggested  by  any  difficulty  found  in  proving  to  the 
courts  the  illegality  of  such  combinations  when  the  illegality  exists.  I 
challenge  the  production  of  a  single  record  in  any  case  in  which  an 
objectionable  combination  has  escaped  a  decree  against  it  because  of  any 
favorable  rule  as  to  the  burden  of  proof.  It  is  true  that  many  defend- 
ants in  criminal  cases  have  escaped  by  a  failure  of  the  jury  to  convict, 
but  that  arises  from  the  reluctance  and  refusal  of  jurors  to  find  ver- 
dicts upon  which  men  are  likely  to  be  sent  to  the  penitentiary  for  pur- 
suing a  course  of  business  competition  which  the  ordinary  man  did  not 
regard  as  immoral  or  criminal  before  the  passage  of  the  act. 

CONSISTENJ    COURSE    IN    PROSECUTION    OF    THE    LAW. 

I  think  I  may  affirm  without  contradiction  that  the  prosecution  of 
all  persons  reported  to  the  Department  of  Justice  to  have  violated  the 
antitrust  law  has  been  carried  on  in  this  administration  without  fear  or 


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favor,  and  that  everyone  who  has  violated  it,  no  matter  how  promi- 
nent or  how  great  his  influence,  has  been  brought  before  the  bar  of  the 
court  either  in  civil  or  criminal  suit  to  answer  the  charge. 

It  is  the  custom  of  those  who  find  it  to  their  political  interest  to 
do  so  to  sneer  at,  as  innocuous,  the  decrees  against  the  American 
Tobacco  Company  and  against  the  Standard  Oil  Company,  and  the  ad- 
ministration is  condemned  in  the  Democratic  platform  for  consenting 
to  a  compromise  in  the  Standard  Oil  case.  There  was  no  compromise. 
The  Standard  Oil  decree  was  entered  by  the  circuit  court,  and  then 
by  the  Supreme  Court,  on  the  prayer  of  the  Government  contained  in 
the  original  bill  filed  in  a  previous  administration.  The  decree  in  the 
Tobacco  case  was  reached  after  a  full  discussion  and  entered  by  the 
circuit  court,  consisting  of  four  circuit  judges,  as  a  proper  decree,  and 
the  Government  refused  to  appeal  from  it  because  it  did  not  feel  that 
it  had  grounds  upon  which  to  base  such  an  appeal.  Both  decrees  are 
working  well.  Both  decrees  have  introduced  competition,  the  one  into 
branches  of  the  tobacco  business  and  the  other  into  branches  of  the 
oil  business.  They  have  not  reintroduced  ruinous  competition,  but  they 
have  affected  certain  prices  in  such  a  way  as  to  show  the  presence  of 
real  competition.  The  division  of  the  two  trusts  by  the  decrees  into 
several  companies  was  not  expected  to  show  immediate  radical  change 
in  the  business.  It  may  take  some  years  to  show  all  the  benefits  of  the 
dissolution,  but  the  limitations  of  the  decrees  in  those  two  cases  are  so 
specific  as  to  make  altogether  impossible  a  resumption  of  the  old  combi- 
nation against  which  the  decrees  were  entered.  Even  if  experience  shall 
show  the  decrees  to  be  inadequate,  full  opportunity  in  future  litigation 
will  be  afforded  to  supply  the  defects. 

The  contest  has  been  a  long  one.  For  years  the  rule  laid  down  in 
the  statute  was  ignored  and  laughed  at,  but  the  power  of  courts  of 
justice  pursuing  quietly  the  law  and  enforcing  it  whenever  opportunity 
arose  has  finally  convinced  the  business  public  that  the  antitrust  law 
means  something,  and  that  the  policy  of  the  administration  in  enforcing 
it  means  something.  A  number  of  these  combinations  illegally  organized 
and  maintained  are  now  coming  forward  admitting  their  illegality  and 
seeking  a  decree  of  dissolution,  injunction,  and  settlement.  They  are 
quite  prepared  to  square  with  that  policy,  provided  it  be  definitely  under- 
stood that  it  be  impartially  enforced  and  that  security  shall  attend  com- 
pliance with  the  law.  My  belief  is  that  these  decrees  mark  the  beginning 
of  a  new  era  in  industrial  development;  that  what  the  great  corporations 
of  the  country  now  desire  is  not  what  they  manifestly  did  20  years  ago, 
to-wit,  to  obtain  a  monopoly  in  each  business,  but  it  is  to  maintain  a  large 
enough  plant  to  secure  the  greatest  economy  in  production  on  the  one 
hand  and  to  avoid  the  danger  of  the  threats  of  persecution  and  dis- 
turbance of  their  business  on  the  other.  It  will  be  the  work  of  the 


432  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

highest  statesmanship  to  secure  these  ends,  and  the  Republican  Party  if 
given  the  power  will  accomplish  it. 

CONCLUSION. 

I  have  thus  outlined,  Mr.  Root  and  gentlemen,  what  I  consider  to 
be  the  chief  issues  of  this  campaign.  There  are  others  of  importance, 
but  time  does  not  permit  me  to  discuss  them.  In  accordance  with  the 
usual  custom  I  reserve  the  opportunity  to  supplement  these  remarks  in  a 
letter  to  be  addressed  to  you  at  a  later  date  when  the  alignments  of  the 
campaign  may  require  further  discussion. 

For  the  present  it  is  sufficient  for  me  to  say  that  it  is  greatly  in 
the  interest  of  the  people  to  maintain  the  solidarity  of  the  Republican 
Party  for  future  usefulness  and  to  continue  it  and  its  policies  in  con- 
trol of  the  destinies  of  the  Nation.  I  can  not  think  that  the  American 
people,  after  the,  scrutiny  and  education  of  a  three-months'  campaign, 
during  which  they  will  be  able  to  see  through  the  fog  of  misrepre- 
sentation and  demagogery,  will  fail  to  recognize  that  the  two  great 
issues  which  are  here  presented  to  them  are,  first,  whether  we  shall 
retain,  on  a  sound  and  permanent  basis,  our  popular  constitutional  rep- 
resentative form  of  government,  with  the  independence  of  the  judiciary 
as  necessary  to  the  preservation  of  those  liberties  that  are  the  inheritance 
of  centuries,  and,  second,  whether  we  shall  welcome  prosperity  which 
is  just  at  our  door  by  maintaining  our  present  economic  business  basis 
and  by  the  encouragement  of  business  expansion  and  progress  through 
legitimate  use  of  capital. 

I  know  that  in  this  wide  country  there  are  many  who  call  them- 
selves Democrats,  who  view,  with  the  same  aversion  that  we  Republi- 
cans do,  the  radical  propositions  of  change  in  our  form  of  Government 
that  are  recklessly  advanced  to  satisfy  what  is  supposed  to  be  popular 
clamor.  They  are  men  who  revere  the  Constitution  and  the  institutions 
of  their  Government  with  all  the  love  and  respect  that  we  could  possibly 
have,  men  who  deprecate  disturbance  in  business  conditions,  and  are 
yearning  for  that  quiet  from  demagogic  agitation  which  is  essential  to 
the  enjoyment  by  the  whole  people  of  the  great  prosperity  which  the 
good  crops  and  the  present  conditions  ought  to  bring  to  us.  To  them 
I  appeal,  as  to  all  Republicans,  to  join  us  in  an  earnest  effort  to  avert 
the  political  and  economic  revolution  and  business  paralysis  which  Re- 
publican defeat  will  bring  about.  Such  misfortune  will  fall  most  heavily 
on  the  wage  earner.  May  we  not  hope  that  he  will  see  what  his  real 
interest  is,  will  understand  the  shallowness  of  attacks  upon  existing 
institutions  and  deceitful  promises  of  undefined  benefit  by  undefined 
changes  ? 

May  we  not  hope  that  the  great  majority  of  voters  will  be  able 
to  distinguish  between  the  substance  of  performance  and  the  fustian 


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of  promise;  that  they  may  be  able  to  see  that  those  who  would  delib- 
erately stir  up  discontent  and  create  hostility  toward  those  who  are 
conducting  legitimate  business  enterprises,  and  who  represent  the  busi- 
ness progress  of  the  country,  are  sowing  dragons'  teeth?  Who  are  the 
people?  They  are  not  alone  the  unfortunate  and  the  weak;  they  are 
the  weak  and  the  strong,  the  poor  and  the  rich,  and  the  many  who  are 
neither,  the  wage  earner  and  the  capitalist,  the  farmer  and  the  profes- 
sional man,  the  merchant  and  the  manufacturer,  the  storekeeper  and  the 
clerk,  the  railroad  manager  and  the  employee — they  all  make  up  the 
people  and  they  all  contribute  to  the  running  of  the  Government,  and 
they  have  not  any  of  them  given  into  the  hands  of  anyone  the  mandate 
to  speak  for  them  as  peculiarly  the  people's  representative.  Especially 
does  not  he  represent  them  who,  assuming  that  the  people  are  only 
the  discontented,  would  stir  them  up  against  the  remainder  of  those  whose 
Government  alike  this  is.  In  other  campaigns  before  this,  the  American 
people  have  been  confused  and  misled  and  diverted  from  the  truth  and 
from  a  clear  perception  of  their  welfare  by  specious  appeals  to  their 
prejudices  and  their'  misunderstanding,  but  the  clarifying  effect  of  a 
campaign  of  education,  the  pricking  of  the  bubbles  of  demagogic  promise 
which  the  discussions  of  a  campaign  made  possible,  have  brought  the 
people  to  a  clear  perception  of  their  own  interests  and  to  a  rejection  of 
the  injurious  nostrums  that  in  the  beginning  of  the  campaign,  it  was 
then  feared,  they  might  embrace  and  adopt.  So  may  we  not  expect  in 
the  issues  which  are  now  before  us  that  the  ballots  cast  in  November 
shall  show  a  prevailing  majority  in  favor  of  sound  progress,  great  pros- 
perity upon  a  protection  basis,  and  under  true  constitutional  representative 
rule  by  the  people? 


ADDRESS  OF  THE  HON.  GEORGE  SUTHERLAND, 

OF  UTAH. 

Notifying  Vice-President  Sherman  of  the  Nomination 
for  the  Vice-Presidency. 

UTICA,  N.  Y.,  AUG.  21,  1912. 

Hon.  George  Sutherland,  Chairman  of  the  Notification  Committee, 
then  made  the  official  address  of  notification.  From  the  outset  to  the 
close,  his  remarks  were  frequently  interrupted  with  hearty  applause.  He 
said: 

"It  has  seldom  fallen  to  me  to  perform  a  duty  in  which  my  sense  of 
personal  pleasure  and  my  judgment  have  coincided  in  such  equal  propor- 
tions. The  many  years  of  my  association  with  you  in  the  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives and  in  the  Senate,  qualify  me  to  say  that  if  the  people  of  this 
country  have  not  lost  their  ability  to  appreciate  faithful,  conscientious 
and  unselfish  public  service,  your  re-election  may  be  predicted  with  con- 
fident assurance.  You  have  presided  over  the  deliberations  of  the  Senate 
with  such  fairness,  courtesy,  ability  and  constant  devotion  to  duty,  as  to 
win  the  uniform  and  unanimous  commendation  of  the  entire  membership 
of  that  body. 

"The  Vice-President  should  always  be  selected  with  the  possibility  in 
mind  of  his  being  called  upon  to  assume  the  larger  duties  of  the  Presi- 
dency, and  I  but  give  expression  to  the  opinions  of  all  those  who  know 
you  best  when  I  say  that  if  that  contingency  would  fall  into  hands  fully 
capable  of  bearing  the  new  and  increased  responsibilities. 

ATTACKS   PROGRESSIVES. 

"We  shall  have  arrayed  against  us  in  the  coming  campaign  our 
ancient  and  hereditary  enemy,  the  Democratic  party.  In  addition  we  shall 
be  called  upon  to  contend  with  some  former  associates  who  have  con- 
cluded to  abandon  their  amiable  custom  of  firing  upon  the  flag  they  have 
been  following,  in  order  that  they  may  engage  in  the  more  honorable, 
but  no  more  effectual,  occupation  of  assaulting  it  from  the  front.  For 
the  next  few  months  our  ears  are  to  be  filled  with  the  voice  of  the  mal- 
content, strident  and  many-keyed,  calling  upon  the  people  to  forsake  the 
tried  and  beaten  paths  of  constitutional  government  along  which  they 
have  walked  with  sure  feet  for  more  than  a  century,  and  enter  upon  a 
personally  conducted  pilgrimage  through  the  political  wilderness  to  a 
promised  land  as  shadowy  and  unsubstantial  as  a  desert  mirage. 

"The  advance  agents  of  this  delirious  excursion  tarried  a  few  days 
ago  at  Chicago,  long  enough  to  pool  their  individual  grievances,  visions 

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FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  435 

and  vagaries,  in  a  bewildering  farrago  of  impractical  political  nostrums, 
such  as  never  before  has  been  collected  at  one  time  outside  the  violent 
wards  of  a  madhouse.  And  thus  the  so-called  Progressive  party  was 
born,  its  sole  excuse  for  existence  being  the  unfounded  claim  that  its 
nominee  for  the  Presidency  was  defeated  for  a  like  nomination  by  stolen 
votes  at  the  Republican  Convention. 

A  RECKLESS   CLAIM. 

"I  cannot,  of  course,  take  the  time  to  discuss  this  claim  in  detail  and 
point  out  its  utter  and  reckless  falsity.  The  overwhelming  majority  of 
the  National  Committee,  the  Credentials  Committee,  and  the  Tribunal  of 
Ultimate  Appeal,  the  Convention  itself,  after  the  most  thorough  and 
patient  consideration,  decided,  and  fairly  decided,  against  this  contention. 
Of  the  delegates  elected  for  Mr.  Taft,  238  were  contested.  Of  these  con- 
tests 164  were  rejected  as  wholly  without  merit,  Mr.  Roosevelt's  own 
friends  of  the  National  Committee  joining  in  the  decision.  Mr.  Roose- 
velt himself,  although  acquiescing  in  the  filing  of  contests  against  24  Ala- 
bama delegates,  openly  stated,  after  the  National  Committee  had  unani- 
mously seated  22  of  them,  that  he  had  only  counted  on  two  delegates  for 
himself,  and  exhibited  a  list  in  which  22  were  conceded  to  President 
Taft.  Why  were  these  22  and  the  remainder  of  the  164  confessedly 
frivolous  contests  instituted? 

"The  Washington  Times,  a  Munsey  newspaper,  and  an  ardent  sup- 
porter of  Mr.  Roosevelt,  ingenuously  furnished  the  explanation,  namely — 
and  I  quote  the  exact  statement : 

"  'For  psychological  effect,  as  a  move  in  practical  politics,  it  was 
necessary  for  the  Roosevelt  people  to  start  contests  in  these  early  Taft 
selections,  in  order  that  a  tabulation  of  delegate  strength  could  be  put  out 
that  would  show  Roosevelt  holding  a  good  hand.' 

FRAUDULENT  CONTESTS. 

"Larceny  for  'psychological  effect'  is  something  quite  new  in  the 
history  of  penology.  In  other  words,  more  than  two-thirds  of  all  the 
contests  which  were  instituted  were  known  to  be  fraudulent  from  the 
beginning.  Though  instituted  for  'psychological  effect,'  they  were  ap- 
parently continued  before  the  Natioonal  Committee  for  more  practical 
reasons.  It  is  difficult  to  imagine  a  more  indecent  attempt  to  dishonestly 
deprive  duly  elected  delegates  of  their  seats  and  secure  unelected  Roose- 
velt delegates  in  their  places.  In  view  of  this  conceded  attempt  to  steal 
164  of  the  delegates,  it  might  not  be  unreasonable  to  require  some- 
thing more  than  the  mere  assertion  of  the  unsuccessful  free-booter  to 
demonstrate  the  merit  of  the  remaining  74  contests. 

"It  would  be  a  strange  rule  of  evidence  which  would  require  us  to 


436  OFFICIAL   PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

accept  the  testimony  of  a  buccaneering  psychologist  who  confesses  to  an 
attempt  to  purloin  the  larger  portion  of  an  honest  man's  property,  as 
conclusive  evidence  of  the  psychologist's  title  to  the  remainder  of  the 
honest  man's  possessions. 

ROOSEVELT     THE     WHOLE     SHOW. 

"There  never  has  been  in  all  history  a  more  unique  convention  than 
that  of  the  Progressive  party  at  Chicago.  Heretofore,  when  a  party  has 
been  organized,  its  organizers  have  in  advance  entertained  at  least  a 
suspicion  respecting  their  principles ;  but  the  delegates  to  this  convention, 
wholly  ignorant  of  the  things  for  which  they  stood,  waited,  with  patiently 
folded  hands,  the  appearance  of  Mr.  Roosevelt  in  the  convention,  to  tell 
them  what  they  believed.  Upon  his  appearance  he  was  received  with 
reverent  adoration.  With  a  spirit  of  self-abnegation  never  witnessed  since 
the  charge  of  the  light  brigade  at  Balaklava — a  'Their's  not  to  reason 
why,  their's  but  to  do  and  die'  sort  of  exaltation,  led  by  the  grand  young 
man  from  Indiana,  devout  but  tuneful,  the  assembled  vassals  proclaimed 
their  joyous  intellectual  surrender  to  the  feudal  lord  in  the  following 
hymn  of  driveling  irresponsibility  : 

Follow,  Follow, 
We    will    follow    Roosevelt, 
Anywhere,  everywhere 
We  will   follow   him. 

Follow,  follow, 
We  will  follow  Roosevelt. 
Anywhere  he  leads  us 
We  will  follow  on. 

All  of  which  being  chanted  to  the  ravishing  air  of  that  stirring  ditty,  en- 
titled 'We  don't  know  where  we're  going,  but  we're  on  the  way,'  wrought 
the  multitude  into  such  a  state  of  blind  and  benighted  idolatry  that 
authentic  information  to  the  effect  that  the  Colonel  had  just  waylaid  a 
perfectly  respectable  minister  of  the  gospel  and  robbed  him  of  his  last 
month's  donations  would  have  brought  forth  enthusiastic  cheers  for  the 
Colonel  and  a  vote  of  stern  condemnation  for  the  man  of  God  as  the 
representative  of  a  dangerous  and  iniquitous  plutocracy. 

"In  form  2,000  delegates,  more  or  less,  gathered  in  the  coliseum;  in 
reality  Mr.  Roosevelt  met  in  convention  at  Chicago,  made  a  confession  of 
faith,  gave  his  hand  to  the  colored  brother  from  the  North  and  his  foot 
to  the  colored  brother  from  the  South,  adopted  a  platform,  nominated  him- 
self and  Brother  Johnson,  and  adjourned  with  the  ease  of  a  thoroughly 


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trained  thimblerigger  plying  his  vocation  among  the  rural  visitors  to  the 
midway  plaisance. 

ISSUES    OF    SERIOUS     MOMENT. 

"The  campaign  upon  which  we  are  about  to  enter  presents  issues  of 
more  serious  moment  to  the  American  people  than  any  they  have  con- 
fronted since  the  grave  questions  which  immediately  preceded  and  accom- 
panied the  Civil  War.  The  overshadowing  question  then  was  whether 
the  Union,  under  the  Constitution,  could  be  perpetuated :  that  which  con- 
fronts us  to-day  is,  whether  the  Constitution  itself,  and  the  government 
which  the  Constitution  established,  shall  be  preserved — a  question  of 
equal,  if  not  greater  gravity,  since  it  would  be  of  little  avail  to  have  pre- 
served the  Union  from  the  chaos  of  disintegration  if  the  government  of 
the  Union  is  to  be  given  over  to  the  chaos  of  disorganization. 

"The  party  to  which  we  belong,  Mr.  Vice-President,  stands  in  this 
supreme  contest  for  the  independence  and  integrity  of  the  judicial  trib- 
unals of  the  land,  without  which  the  guaranty  of  life,  liberty,  and  prop- 
erty would  be  a  meaningless  platitude.  It  stands  for  the  settled  rule  of 
impersonal  government,  as  opposed  to  the  shifty  opportunism  of  personal 
manipulation ;  for  the  liberty  and  order  of  general  law,  as  against  the 
tyranny  of  special  edicts  of  changing  men.  It  plants  itself  upon  the 
impregnable  ramparts  of  the  Constitution,  and,  solemnly  protesting  against 
any  subversion  of  the  terms  of  that  great  compact  by  the  arrogant  and 
revolutionary  process  of  amendment  by  misconstruction,  appeals  from  the 
mid-summer  madness  of  that  portion  of  the  people  which  can  be  fooled 
all  the  time  to  the  sober  second  thought  of  the  great  body  of  the  Ameri- 
can electorate  who  will  render  judgment  in  November." 

VICE-PRESIDENT     SHERMANJ5     REPLY. 

"Mr.  Chairman,  Senator  Sutherland,  Gentlemen  of  the  Notification 
Committee,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen,  my  friends  all : — 

"I  am  pleased  to  add  a  word  of  welcome  to  these  distinguished  guests 
in  the  city  of  my  birth,  of  which  we  are  so  justly  proud.  Let  me  say  to 
you,  gentlemen,  that  this  vast  assemblage  of  my  fellow  citizens  is  gathered 
without  regard  to  party  to  show  good  will  to  a  life  long  neighbor,  and  to 
recognize  a  compliment  paid  through  him  to  this  city,  county  and  common- 
wealth. Dull  would  I  be  in  feeling,  lacking  in  taste,  did  I  fail  to  sense 
.and  express  gratitude  for  this  generous  manifestation  of  friendship.  I 
thank  you  all  for  your  presence  and  your  esteem,  which  I  shall  ever 
prize  and  shall  strive  to  merit  by  every  effort,  whether  in  official  station 
or  in  private  walks.  Good  people  of  Utica  and  Central  New  York,  I  have 
no  interest  and  no  ambition  other  than  to  serve  as  you  would  have  me, 
loyal  to  your  welfare  to  the  highest  purpose  of  the  State  and  Nation 


438  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

and  for  the  benefit  of  mankind.  When  the  polls  are  opened  in  November, 
you  will  vote  for  the  principles  in  which  you  believe,  for  the  candidates 
approved  by  your  consciences,  and  we  shall  continue  in  good  fellowship 
and  civic  and  social  accord  so  long  as  time  shall  spare  us. 

"Gentlemen  of  the  committee,  this  company  appreciates  the  honor  of 
this  visit  by  your  distinguished  membership.  You  represent  the  forty- 
eight  states  of  the  Union  and  the  eight  million  Republican  voters  in  our 
wide  domain.  You  bear  the  commission  of  the  Convention  which,  repre- 
senting them,  met  in  Chicago  in  June.  That  Convention  declared  anew 
our  fidelity  to  the  historic  Republican  party,  our  purpose  to  carry  forward 
the  work  it  has  so  well  done  and  to  promote  further  the  prosperity  and 
progress  of  the  United  States.  The  annals  of  American  parties  do  not 
record  the  proceedings  of  a  political  gathering  conducted  with  more  open- 
ness, fairness,  deliberation,  sobriety  and  worthy  purpose  than  that  for 
which  you  speak.  This  assemblage  will  gladly  concede  the  fact  that  other 
procedure  were  impossible  in  a  body  presided  over  by  Oneida's  native 
son,  Elihu  Root. 

"Not  deceived  by  the  clamor  of  those  who  attempted  to  bolster  up 
claims  without  basis,  by  hundreds  of  contests  resting  on  foundations  so 
flimsy  that,  in  the  light  of  investigation,  most  of  them  melted  away  like 
snow  in  a  furnace  heat  and  were  rejected  by  quite  or  nearly  an  unanimous 
vote,  the  Convention  adopted  a  platform  that  rings  true  for  patriotism 
and  Constitutional  government  and  worthily  bestowed  a  renomination 
upon  our  present  Chief  Executive. 

"You,  gentlemen,  notify  me  that  the  Convention  named  me  as  the 
party's  candidate  for  Vice-President.  Our  party  has  never  before  con- 
ferred a  second  nomination  for  that  office  upon  any  man.  This  distinction 
was  not  sought  by  me,  but  unsolicited,  it  is  the  more  appreciated  and  its 
value  is  augmented  by  the  generous  words  in  which  you,  Senator  Suther- 
land, are  pleased  to  announce  it.  I  cannot  but  recognize  your  message, 
gentlemen,  as  a  mandate  which  I  must  obey.  As  a  loyal  Republican,  a 
disciple  of  the  party  of  Lincoln  and  Grant,  of  Harrison  and  McKinley, 
and  of  him  for  whom  the  ground  upon  which  we  stand,  dedicated  to 
public  use,  is  named,  Roscoe  Conkling,  I  stand  squarely  upon  the  party 
platform.  I  approve  of  the  admirable  statement  of  Republican  principles 
and  achievements  made  in  the  address  accepting  the  nomination  for 
President  by  William  Howard  Taft.  Upon  that  platform  and  associated 
with  President  Taft,  I  gratefully  accept  the  re-nomination  as  Republican 
candidate  for  the  office  of  Vice-President  of  the  United  States. 

"Fortunate  are  we,  Republicans,  in  the  fact  that  our  opponents  are 
divided  into  two  camps,  rivaling  each  other  in  their  efforts  to  excel  in 
disturbing  the  civic  and  economic  order  of  the  country.  The  new  party 
thrusts  itself  forward  into  the  vacuum  left  by  the  phantoms  of  other  third 
parties  which  have  passed  into  oblivion.  Oblivion,  too,  awaits  it.  The 


FIFTEENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION  439 

Democratic  party  in  the  Nation  has  many  times  defeated  its  Republican 
rival  in  August;  but  twice  has  it  done  so  in  November.  The  political 
skies  are  often  confused  and  lowering  in  mid-summer,  but  the  cooling 
breezes  of  November  render  them  clear  and  normal.  Astronomers  tell 
us  that  many  shooting  stars  flash  into  vision  in  August,  but  dazzling  tho' 
they  be  in  their  flight,  they  disappear  in  unknown  space  while  the  planets 
roll  on  in  splendor  in  their  regular  orbits.  So  in  the  political  firmament — 
comets  may  cross  the  canopy ;  they  have  no  fixed  place  in  the  solar  system. 
The  Democratic  rallying  cry  has  always  been  'a  tariff  for  revenue  only,' 
and  the  bitterest  assault  on  the  policy  of  protection  to  American  industry. 
This  year  sees  no  innovation.  The  Democratic  candidate,  Dr.  Wilson,  is 
Bryan  and  Parker  over  again  without  the  oratory  of  the  one  or  the 
legal  training  of  the  other,  but  with  the  free-trade  prejudices  of  both 
seemingly  intensified.  It  is  not  unkind  to  discern  that  Dr.  Wilson  is  a 
pedagogue,  not  a  statesman  in  his  mode  of  thought,  academic  rather  than 
practical.  Job  appealed :  'O,  that  mine  adversary  had  written  a  book !' 
Dr.  Wilson  has  written  several,  and  many  utterances  in  them  will  prove 
both  an  embarrassment  and  a  burden  in  this  campaign.  In  his  history 
of  the  American  people  he  says:  (Vol.  5,  page  212)  : 

"  'Now  came  multitudes  of  men  of  the  lowest  class  from  the  south 
of  Italy  and  men  of  the  meaner  sort  out  of  Hungary  and  Poland,  men 
out  of  the  ranks  where  there  was  neither  skill  nor  energy  nor  any  inia- 
tive  of  quick  intelligence,  and  they  came  in  numbers  which  increased  from 
year  to  year,  as  if  the  countries  of  the  south  of  Europe  were  dis- 
burdening themselves  of  the  more  sordid  and  hapless  elements  of  their 
population,'  and  almost  immediately  thereafter  the  learned  doctor  further 
says: 

"  'The  Chinese  were  more  to  be  desired  as  workmen,  if  not  as  citi- 
zens, than  most  of  the  coarse  crew  that  came  crowding  in  every  year 
at  the  Eastern  ports.' 

"Was  the  statement  when  made  well  founded?  Is  it  to-day?  Was 
it  just?  Was  it  worth  while  for  the  learned  writer  to  give  expression 
to  such  sentiments?  Do  my  hearers  to-day  believe  the  Chinese  to  be 
more  desired  than  the  European  immigrants?  Do  they  concede  the  immi- 
grants from  the  land  of  Koskiusco  and  Columbus  to  be  of  the  'lowest 
class,'  of  the  'meaner  sort,'  the  'most  sordid'  and  the  'coarsest  crew?'  By 
their  votes  in  November  they  must  say  if  they  believe  a  man  who  gave 
utterance  but  a  few  years  ago  to  such  thoughts  and  sentiments  is  now 
best  fitted  to  be  the  chief  executive  of  their  adopted  government  and 
country. 

"For  the  first  time  in  the  memory  of  my  oldest  hearer,  the  country 
witnessed  a  convention  held  in  Chicago  but  two  weeks  since,  in  which 
there  was  no  roll  call  of  delegates,  no  ballots  cast;  where  red  bandannas 
were  preferred  to  the  stars  and  stripes,  where  the  scene  was  scarlet  over- 


440  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

much,  like  the  flag  of  anarchy,  not  red,  white  and  blue,  the  symbol  of 
patriotism.  The  unquestioned  master  of  the  situation  was  greeted  by 
his  sattelites  as  'an  inspired  leader'  and  the  irreverence  which  fell  from 
many  lips,  reached  its  climax  in  the  closing  utterances  of  the  chairman. 
The  'leader's  right  to  rule'  was  recognized  and  proclaimed.  Never 
in  the  history  of  the  English  tongue  was  greater  assumption  of 
power  proclaimed.  Thoughtful  and  patriotic  citizens  will  inquire  the 
meaning  of  the  pronunciamento  of  that  gathering  that  there  will  follow 
'a  dangerous  revolution'  unless  its  policies  are  adopted.  American  voters 
of  all  parties  will.  I  believe,  resent  any  appeal  to  the  terror  of  violence. 
Both  of  the  opposing  parties  assault  with  equal  vehemence  the  present 
tariff  under  which  our  country  has  so  markedly  prospered.  They  abuse 
the  Payne-Aldrich  law  without  stint  and  without  reason.  That  tariff  Act 
has  closed  no  factory,  has  put  out  the  fires  in  no  furnace,  has  thrown  no 
mechanic  or  laborer  out  of  employment.  It  has  opened  no  free  soup 
houses  for  starving  families  deprived  of  the  wage  of  the  bread-earner; 
it  has  formed  no  bread  line  of  jaded,  disheartened  seekers  for  employ- 
ment. It  has  kept  wide  open  the  home  markets  for  the  produce  of  the 
farm  and  the  factory :  industrious  workingmen,  having  the  highest  wage 
ever  known,  have  been  enabled  to  build  new  houses ;  to  clothe  well  their 
children ;  to  provide  for  their  schooling  and  to  give  them  a  generous 
measure  of  the  comforts  and  luxuries  of  life.  The  landlord  is  not  em- 
barrassed in  the  collection  of  his  rent,  the  grocer  in  receiving  pay  for  his 
supplies.  The  church  of  his  choice  is  receiving  his  free  gifts  from  the 
prosperous  citizens.  Nearly  ten  millions  of  depositors  in  the  savings 
banks  had,  last  year,  laid  away  over  four  thousand  millions  of  dollars, 
(.$4.212,583,000),  while  every  branch  of  moral,  social  and  educational  bet- 
terment has  received  vital  impulse  and  generous  support.  Wherein  can 
the  thoughtful  citizen  see  promise  of  betterment  in  the  frantic  cry  for 
'a  change?' 

"I  have  seen  in  no  speech  or  literature  made  or  issued  by  a  member 
of  either  of  the  opposing  parties,  the  fact  stated  that  of  the  hundreds  of 
millions  of  foreign  goods  imported  last  year,  fifty-one  per  cent,  came  in 
duty  free.  Have  any  of  the  rancorous  critics  of  the  Payne  tariff  law 
cited  the  fact  that  under  its  provisions  the  duties  on  all  importations  were 
reduced  twenty-one  per  cent.?  And  yet  this  'revision  downward'  was 
accomplished  without  harm  to  American  labor.  Unbridled  ambition  and 
long  deferred  hope  have  little  regard  for  reason  and  for  truth.  Our 
export  trade  has  mounted  marvelously.  In  the  last  fiscal  year,  in  manu- 
factures alone,  it  passed  the  billion  dollar 'mark  ($1,021,000,000).  The 
annual  product  of  our  manufactures  surpasses  that  of  any  other  nation, 
and  besides  fully  supplying  our  own  people,  exceeds  all  competitors  in 
the  value  of  exports. 


FIFTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL  CONVENTION  441 

"The  Democratic  majority  in  the  House  of  Representatives  is  writing 
in  lurid  characters  the  extent  to  which  our  opponents  are  willing  to  go  in 
their  zealous  efforts  to  ruin  protection.  The  several  bills  reducing  various 
schedules,  passed  by  the  House,  and  under  the  strange  condition  existing 
in  the  Senate,  acquiesced  in  by  that  body,  exhibit  the  crudities  and  de- 
structive aims  of  the  advocates  of  a  tariff  for  revenue  only.  The  need 
of  a  Republican  President  is  clearly  proven  by  the  defense  of  American 
industry  by  President  Taft,  in  his  vetoes  of  these  recent  tariff  bills  from 
which  he  has  saved  every  interest  of  labor  and  production.  Had  he  no 
other  title  of  both  gratitude  and  support  (and  he  has  a  multitude)  these 
vetoes  alone  call  for  the  support  at  the  polls  of  every  American  citizen 
who  toils  with  hand  or  brain,  on  the  farm  or  in  the  factory,  in  the  mill 
or  in  the  shop  or  in  the  office,  who  values  present  blessings  and  desires 
to  preserve  them. 

"The  Republican  party  has  never  claimed  to  possess  within  its  mem- 
bership all  the  world's  patriotism  and  virtue.  We  do  not  pretend  to  be 
better  than  other  men  of  good  interest  who  try  to  behave  well.  We 
concede  to  the  followers  of  other  party  standards,  be  they  Democratic, 
Progressive,  Prohibition  or  what  not,  a  desire  to  do  that  which  shall 
serve  the  public  weal.  We  insist  that  in  their  advocacy  of  many  economic, 
financial  and  governmental  theories,  they  are  in  error,  grievous  error. 
While  admitting  the  sincerity  of  their  beliefs,  we  maintain  that  the  prin- 
ciples in  which  we  believe  and  the  policies  which  we  advocate,  are  far  the 
best,  to  be  upheld  and  applied  for  the  best  interests  of  the  hundred  million 
of  American  people.  We  insist  that  experience  justifies  our  contention. 
With  but  two  intervals,  Republican  rule  has,  for  half  a  century,  guided 
the  majestic  forward* and  upward  strides  of  this  nation.  That,  we  assert, 
is  a  demonstration  of  the  capacity  and  the  purpose  and  the  success  of  the 
Republican  party  in  securing  for  this  country  sane,  certain  and  all  em- 
bracing progress. 

"The  crime  of  this  'new  age'  is  frenzied  speech  and  action ;  lack  of 
thought,  a  spurning  of  deliberation  and  of  the  weighing  of  consequences. 
Fakirs  with  projects  to  'get  rich  quick'  draw  gaping  crowds.  Mad  haste 
is  the  pastime  of  the  multitude.  Automobiles  race  to  carry  their  passen- 
gers to  death  at  a  mile  a  minute.  The  British  Board  of  Trade  attributes 
the  awful  sinking  of  the  Titanic,  with  its  cruel  sacrifice  of  life  of  crew 
and  passengers,  to  excessive  speed.  The  third  term  party  and  Candidate 
Wilson  urge  the  country  to  like  disaster  and  ruin. 

"Wrhen  the  American  people  in  the  quiet  of  the  home  fire-side,  about 
the  evening  lamp,  in  the  late  Autumn  days,  shall  have  given  careful 
thought  to  the  history  of  the  past;  shall  have  considered  the  blessings  that 
have  come  from  tried  policies ;  when  they  shall  have  contemplated  the 
possible  dangers  that  may  follow  from  unwise  and  unripe  changes,  they 
will  give  heed  to  the  warning  and  will  not  repeat  in  ouf  political  and 


442  HISTORY   OF   THE 

economic  fields  the  frightful  and  ghastly  experience  of  the  Titanic.  We 
Republicans  are  not  men  worshipers.  We  contend  with  Jefferson  for 
'principles,  not  men.'  We  are  free  and  we  follow  blindly  no  leader  and 
bow  to  no  dictator.  The  people  have  and  the  people  always  will  rule. 
We  grip  our  anchor  firmly  on  the  Constitution  and  the  American  system 
of  representative  government.  The  more  savage  and  truculent  the  at- 
tacks upon  them,  the  more  insolent  the  bluster,  the  more  steadfast  is 
our  stand  for  free  institutions,  which  are  the  glory  of  mankind.  An  un- 
trammeled  judiciary  is  their  strong  bulwark.  We  warn  the  electorate 
not  to  be  drowned  by  a  Niagara  of  denunciation  and  abuse.  Every  tirade 
against  the  Constitution  and  the  law  and  the  courts  is  a  strident  call  to 
the  American  people  to  protect  their  homes,  and  to  maintain,  inviolate, 
Constitutional  government;  every  assault  upon  protection,  a  summons  to 
preserve  their  opportunities,  to  maintain  existing  conditions  which  places 
the  American  wage  earner,  in  every  calling,  on  a  higher  scale  of  living 
and  civilization  than  enjoyed  elsewhere  in  the  world.  Such  protection  can 
be  guaranteed  only  by  adequate  customs  duties,  justly  and  wisely  applied 
to  hold  our  broad  and  immense  home  market  against  the  world.  Such 
protection,  to  be  safe  and  certain,  must  be  based  upon  a  Republican  pro- 
tective tariff. 

"The  evidence  upon  which  the  American  electorate  will  base  its 
verdict  in  November  will  be  submitted  upon  the  hustings,  through  the 
press,  and  by  pleas  through  the  mails.  The  evidence  should  be  based 
upon  the  experience  of  the  past.  The  jury  of  American  people  must 
weigh  it  well  and  sift  the  false  from  the  true.  The  verdict  will  be  ren- 
dered within  a  few  hours  of  a  single  day;  its  effects  will  be  with  us  for 
years.  Let  no  juror  reach  his  conclusion,  render  his  verdict  without  due 
care  for  the  welfare  of  himself,  his  kinsmen  and  his  fellows. 

"We  ask  that  the  Republican  party  and  its  candidate  be  tried  upon  the 
record  of  service  and  accomplishments.  We  near  the  end  of  President 
Taft's  first  term  of  service,  with  our  government  at  amity  with  all  foreign 
powers,  amid  domestic  tranquillity  and  with  our  people  blessed  by  pros- 
perity and  abundance;  our  navy  among  the  foremost  of  the  world;  our 
army  in  a  high  degree  of  excellence;  our  postal  service,  for  the  first  time 
in  its  history,  self-sustaining;  the  colossal  dream  of  centuries,  an  Isth- 
mian Canal  almost  a  completed  reality;  our  foreign  and  domestic  com- 
merce in  a  condition  of  activity,  vigor  and  health,  and  meeting  the  de- 
sires of  the  most  optimistic,  and  every  department  of  the  Government 
rendering  proper  and  efficient  aid  to  law-abiding  citizens  in  every  calling. 
Confident  that  the  American  people  are  not  yet  willing  to  destroy  and  dis- 
card the  Constitution  which  has  stood  the  test  of  more  than  a  century, 
which  was  framed,  expounded  and  upheld  by  the  great  men  of  the  past; 
that  they  have  not  yet  forgotten  the  direful  result  of  the  mistake  of  1892, 
we  calmy  await  the  ides  of  November. 


Republican  National  Committee. 

HISTORY,  MANNER  OF  SELECTION  OF  MEMBERS  AND  TERM  OF  OFFICE. 


The  National  Committee  is  primarily  a  campaign  committee,  coming 
into  existence  at  a  National  Convention  and  conducting  the  campaign  for 
the  election  of  the  nominees  of  that  Convention  for  President  and  Vice- 
President. 

It  is  also  the  duly  accredited  agency  of  the  National  Party  through 
which  the  party  preserves  its  records,  arranges  the  inaugural  ceremonies 
(*.*.,  a  Republican  National  Committee),  issues  a  Call,  and  makes  ar- 
rangements for  the  physical  handling  of  the  next  Convention,  hears  and 
determines  contests,  makes  up  a  temporary  roll,  names  temporary  officers 
and  attends  to  the  infinite  variety  of  detail  necessary  to  distinguish  a 
party  from  an  unorganized  group  of  voters,  and  a  convention  from  an 
impromptu  mass  meeting. 

The  present  Republican  National  Committee  was  created  by  the  Re- 
publican National  Convention  of  1908,  just  as  every  other  prior  National 
Committee  was  created  by  the  National  Convention  which  named  it. 

The  National  Committee  is  created  by  no  law,  either  State  or  Fed- 
eral. While  direct  State  primaries  have  superseded  State  Conventions  in 
some  States,  a  National  Primary  to  replace  the  National  Convention  is  as 
yet  only  a  proposal.  The  National  Convention  is  the  highest  party  au- 
thority. In  fact,  there  is  no  authority  either  for  the  creation  or  continu- 
ance of  a  National  Committee.  The  National  Convention  has  provided 
how  vacancies  occurring  by  death  or  resignation  may  be  filled,  but  it  has 
never  provided  for  the  creation  of  a  vacancy.  In  other  words,  the  recall 
has  not  as  yet  been  put  in  operation. 

Any  National  Convention  could,  by  the  adoption  of  a  resolution,  do 
away  with  the  National  Committee  entirely,  and  it  is  probable  that  if  a 
National  Convention  should  fail  to  provide  by  resolution,  or  otherwise, 
for  a  new  National  Committee,  the  old  National  Committee  would  go  out 
of  existence  the  day  the  Convention  adjourned  sine  die. 

A  National  Convention  might,  by  resolution,  provide  that  the  Na- 
tional Committee  should  consist  of  one  member  from  each  of  the  great 
geographical  divisions  of  the  United  States,  instead  of  as  at  present 
from  each  State  and  Territory,  and  could  select  the  members  thereof. 

The  successive  National  Conventions  being  the  creators  of  each  Na- 
tional Committee,  as  a  Committee,  and  also  naming  the  members  thereof, 
whether  by  confirming  the  nomination  or  suggestion  made  by  a  State 

443 


444  HISTORY    OF    TJ1K 

delegation,  or  a  State  Convention,  or  otherwise,  it  is  apparent  that  no 
State  law  can  do  more  than  to  provide  a  method  for  naming  or  recom- 
mending a  single  member  of  this  Committee.  In  fact,  where  such  State 
law  operates  to  nominate  or  elect  a  member  prior  to  the  Convention,  the 
nominee  or  member-elect  is  chosen  for  membership  on  a  committee  not 
yet  in  existence.  It  is  in  futuro. 

By  precedent,  and  the  rules  of  the  Republican  Party,  as  a  national 
organization,  there  can  be  no  possible  doubt  that  a  member  of  the  Na- 
tional Committee  named  at  a  National  Convention,  serves  a  full  term  of 
four  years,  or  until  the  selection,  nomination  or  election  of  his  successor 
is  approved  by  a  National  Convention. 

The  first  record  of  a  National  Committee  for  the  Republican  Party 
is  found  in  the  proceedings  of  the  Republican  National  Convention,  held 
at  Philadelphia,  June  17th,  18th  and  19th,  185G.  On  the  first  day  of  that 
Convention,  on  June  17th,  1856,  Dr.  George  Harris,  of  Maryland,  offered 
the  following  resolution : 

"That  a  committee  of  one  from  each  State  and  Territory  repre- 
sented in  this  Convention  be  appointed  by  the  several  delegations 
respectively  to  report  the  name  of  one  person  from  each  State  and 
Territory  to  constitute  the  Republican  National  Committee  for  the 
ensuing  four  years — such  committee,  when  appointed,  to  elect  their 
own  chairman." 

On  taking  up  the  question,  this  resolution  was  adopted.     On  motion, 
the  selection  of  the  Committee  provided  for  by   the   resolution   was  de- 
ferred until  the  next  morning.  The  following  day,  June  18th,   1856,   Mr. 
Rowland  G.  Hazard,  of  Rhode  Island,  offered  the  following  resolution : 
"RESOLVED :     That    the    resolution   adopted  yesterday  provid- 
ing for  the  appointment  of  a  committee  to  report  to  the  Convention 
the  names  of  the  Republican  National  Committee  for  the  next  four 
years,  be,  and  the  same  hereby  is,  reconsidered,   and   that  the  same 
resolution  be  amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows : 

"RESOLVED:  That  the  several  State  and  Territorial  delega- 
tions, through  their  chairman,  report  to  the  Convention  the  name  of 
one  citizen  from  their  respective  States  and  Territories,  to  be  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Republican  National  Committee  for  the  next  four  years, 
and  that  the  gentlemen  so  appointed  constitute  said  Republican  Na- 
tional Committee,  and  that  they  elect  the  chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee." 

On  a  division  on  the  question,  a  motion  to  reconsider  the  resolution 
of  the  previous  day  was  adopted. 

The  motion  to  amend,  and  the  resolution  of  the  previous  day  as 
amended,  were  then  unanimously  adopted. 

It  will  be  netted  that  the  adoption  of  the  Hazard  Resolution,  particu- 
larly the  second  paragraph  thereof,  by  the  Convention  as  a  whole,  created 


NATIONAL    COMMITTEE  445 

the  National  Committee  and  that  it  was  considered  necessary  for  action 
by  the  Convention  to  authorize  the  nomination  or  selection  of  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Committee.  In  the  official  proceedings  appears  the  following : 
"On  calling  the  States  and  Territories,  the  following  named  gen- 
tlemen were  announced  to  constitute  the  Republican  National  Com- 
mittee for  the  next  four  years  and  were  appointed  accordingly." 
The  Committee  thus  named  at  the  Convention  of  1856  elected  Edwin 
D.  Morgan  as  Chairman  and  N.  B.  Judd  as  Secretary.  This  Committee 
conducted  the  campaign  for  John  C.  Fremont,  continued  in  office  without 
interruption,  and  on  the  22nd  of  December,  1859,  promulgated  a  Call, 
through  its  chairman  and  secretary,  for  the  second  Republican  National 
Convention  to  meet  in  the  City  of  Chicago,  May  16,  1860.  When  this 
Convention  met  it  was  called  to  order  by  Chairman  Morgan,  who,  in 
closing  his  remarks,  named  for  temporary  president,  Honorable  David 
Wilmot,  who  was  unanimously  chosen  temporary  presiding  officer.  In 
this  Convention,  for  the  first  time,  there  appears  to  have  been  a  separate 
Committee  on  Rules  and  Order  of  Business,  the  prior  Convention  of  1856 
having  apparently  satisfied  itself  with  a  Committee  on  Credentials,  Rules 
and  Appointments.  This  Rules  Committee  seems  not  to  have,  in  any 
manner,  attempted  to  change  the  precedent  of  1856  in  regard  to  the  selec- 
tion and  term  of  office  of  the  National  Committeemen,  and  after  the 
nomination  of  Abraham  Lincoln  for  President,  Mr.  Smith  of  Indiana 
moved  that  the  roll  be  called  and  that  each  delegation  appoint  a  member 
of  the  National  Committee,  which  was  accordingly  done.  This  National 
Committee  continued  in  office,  issued  the  Call,  and  made  the  arrange- 
ments for  the  National  Convention  of  1864,  and  continued  to  serve 
through  the  Convention  of  1864  until  their  successors  were  elected  by 
the  Convention  itself.  The  Committee  on  Rules  and  Order  of  Business 
in  the  1864  Convention  adopted  as  an  addition  to  their  regular  report  this 
further  report : 

"A  National  Union  Committee  shall  be  appointed,  to  consist  of 
one  member  from  each  State,  Territory  and  District  represented  in 
this  Convention.  The  roll  shall  be  called  and  the  delegation  from 
each  State,  Territory  and  District  shall  name  a  person  to  act  as  a 
member  of  said  Committee." 

After  the  nomination  of  the  President  and  Vice-President,  Mr.  Lane 
of  Kansas  made  the  following  motion : 

"I  move  now  that  the  list  of  States  be  called  over,  and  as  they 
are  called,  that  the  chairman  of  the  respective  delegations  name  one 
member  from  each  State  to  constitute  the  National  Committee." 
The  motion  was  agreed  to.    The  roll  was  called,  and  gentlemen  were 
named  to  constitute  the  Committee. 

At  the  Convention  of  1868  for  the  first  time  the  selection  of  a  Na- 
tional Committee  was  expressly  provided  for  in  the  regular  report  of  the 


446  HISTORY   OF   THE 

Committee   on  Rules,  and  the  provision  thus  made  was  known  in  that 
Convention  as  "Rule  10,"  which  was  as  follows : 

"Rule  10:  A  National  Union  Executive  Committee  shell  be  ap- 
pointed, to  consist  of  one  member  from  each  State,  Territory  and  Dis- 
trict represented  in  this  Convention.  The  roll  shall  be  called,  and 
the  delegation  from  each  State,  Territory  and  District  shall  name, 
through  their  chairman,  a  person  to  act  as  a  member  of  such  Com- 
mittee." 

This  rule  was  adopted. 

Pursuant  to  this  rule  and  on  the  second  day,  following  the  nomina- 
tions, a  National  Committee  was  named  consisting  of  one  member  from 
each  State,  Territory  and  District 

This  Committee  issued  the  Call  for  the  Convention  of  1872,  the  first 
paragraph  of  which  is  as  follows: 

"The  undersigned,  constituting  the  National  Committee  desig- 
nated by  the  Convention  held  at  Chicago,  on  the  20th  of  May,  1868, 
hereby  call  a  Convention  of  the  Union  Republican  Party,  at  the  City 
of  Philadelphia,  on  Wednesday,  the  5th  day  of  June  next,  at  12 
o'clock  noon,  for  the  purpose  of  nominating  candidates  for  the  offices 
of  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States." 
It  will  be  observed  that  they  acknowledged  the  derivation  of  their 
authority  as  a  Committee  from  the  Chicago  Convention  of  1868. 

In  the  1872  Convention  the  provision  for  the  National  Committee  was 
identical  with  the  rule  adopted  at  the  Convention  of  '68,  and  was  like- 
wise Rule  10  of  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Rules  as  adopted  by 
that  Convention. 

The  Convention  of  1876  was  called  by  this  Committee,  which,  like  all 
its  predecessors,  had  served  their  full  term  of  four  years  or  more,  up  to 
and  including  that  session  of  the  succeeding  Convention  which  chose  a 
new  Committee.  The  official  proceedings  of  the  Convention  of  1876,  at 
page  331,  contains  the  following: 

"REPUBLICAN  NATIONAL  COMMITTEE.  The  Convention 
then  proceeded  to  appoint  members  of  the  Republican  National  Com- 
mittee." 

The  Call  as  read  by  the  Secretary  of  the  National  Committee  at  the 
Convention  of  1880  shows  that  the  Committee  named  by  the  Convention 
of  1876  had  served  continuously,  and  continued  so  to  serve  until  the 
second  day,  when,  as  shown  on  page  399  of  the  proceedings,  the  follow- 
ing statement  was  made  on  the  floor  of  the  Convention : 

"THE  PRESIDENT :  Before  putting  the  question  an  announce- 
ment will  be  made  at  the  desire  of  the  National  Committee." 

"THE  SECRETARY:  The  Republican  National  Committee  will 
hold  a  session  in  their  rooms  at  the  Palmer  House  immediately  upon 
the  adjournment  of  this  Convention." 


NATIONAL   COMMITTEE  447 

"MR.  CONKLING:    Which  Committee— the  old  or  the  new?" 
"THE  SECRETARY:     The  old  Committee— the  present  Com- 
mittee; no  other  Committee  has  been  announced  yet" 
So  it  has  been.    "The  old  committee"  is  "the  present  Committee,"  the 
only  Committee,  until  a  new  Committee  is  duly  created  and  constituted 
by  a  National  Convention. 

The  Committee  on  Rules  of  the  1880  Convention  re-enacted  Rule  10 
of  the  prior  Rules  Committees,  and  the  same  was  adopted  by  the  Con- 
vention. The  new  National  Committee  was  selected,  pursuant  to  Rule  10, 
on  the  third  day  of  the  Convention  of  1880,  and  served  through  the  entire 
period  intervening  until  the  next  Convention  issued  the  Call  and  provided 
for  the  first  time  for  a  Sub-Committee  on  Arrangements,  of  which  Hon- 
orable John  C.  New  was  chairman.  The  Committee  on  Rules  of  the  1884 
Convention  made  the  same  provision  for  the  selection  of  the  National 
Committee  as  had  been  theretofore  made,  and  on  the  third  day  a  new 
Committee  was  named.  This  Committee  continued  exactly  as  its  prede- 
cessors had  until  the  Convention  of  1888  was  fully  organized  and  the 
new  Committee  named  by  that  Convention,  provision  for  the  new  Com- 
mittee having  been  made  by  a  Rule  10  of  the  report  of  the  Committee  on 
Rules. 

Each  successive  Convention  has  followed  the  precedent  thus  shown  to 
have  been  established  by  providing  for  a  National  Committee  and  selecting 
it  Each  Convention  has  had  a  Committee  on  Rules  whose  report,  when 
adopted  by  the  Convention,  has  been  the  authbrity  for  the  action  of  the 
Committee  in  calling  the  next  Convention  and  arranging  therefor.  There 
is  no  written  code  for  the  guidance  or  control  of  the  National  Commit- 
tee. There  has  been,  nothing  but  the  rules  of  the  several  Conventions 
reported  by  the  Committees  on  Rules  and  adopted  by  the  Conventions, 
and  the  precedents  of  the  Committee  and  the  Party  itself. 

Until  the  National  Convention  of  1908,  vacancies  on  the  Committee 
occurring  by  death  or  resignation  were  filled  by  the  Committee  or  its 
Chairman.  In  the  1908  Convention,  General  Powell  Clayton,  of  Arkansas, 
offered  a  resolution  along  the  same  lines,  providing  that  the  Republican 
National  Committee  be  empowered  to  fill  all  vacancies  in  its  membership. 
Governor  Chase  S.  Osborn,  of  Michigan,  moved  as  an  amendment  to 
that  resolution  that  the  State  Central  Committee  of  each  State  should 
have  power  to  fill  any  vacancies  from  that  State  that  might  occur  on  the 
Republican  National  Committee.  General  Clayton  accepted  the  amend- 
ment, and  the  resolution  as  amended  was  carried. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  National  Committee  held  in  Washington,  D.  C., 
December  12,  1911,  a  Committee  consisting  of  Honorable  Charles  F. 
Brooker,  Honorable  William  L.  Ward  and  Honorable  Frank  B.  Kellogg 
was  appointed  to  prepare  a  set  of  rules  and  report  the  same  to  the  June 
meeting  of  the  Committee  in  Chicago. 


448  HISTORY   OF   THE 

The  Appendix  following  shows  the  time  and  place  of  meeting  of  the 
National  Republican  Conventions  from  1856  to  the  present  time,  together 
with  the  nominees  of  such  Conventions  and  the  officers  of  the  National 
Committees  named  by  such  Conventions : 


FIRST    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.    Musical   Fund   Hall,   Philadel- 
phia. June  irth,   i8th  and  i9th,  1856. 
John   C.    Fremont,   of   California,   for   President. 
William  L.    Dayton,   of   New  Jersey,   for   Vice-President. 

Edwin   D.    Morgan,   of    New   York,    Chairman   of   Republican    National   Committee. 
Norman    B.    Tudd.   of   Illinois,    Secretary   of   Republican    National    Committee. 


SECOND    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION.    Chicago.    May    i6th,    i/th 

and    1 8th,    1860. 

Abraham    Lincoln,    of   Illinois,    for    President. 
Hannibal    Hamlin.   of   Maine,    for    Vice-President. 
Edwin    D.    Morgan,    of    New    York.    Chairman    Republican    National    Committee. 


THIRD    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL   CONVENTION.    Baltimore,  June    ;th   and   8th, 

1864. 

Abraham    Lincoln,    of    Illinois,    for    President. 
Andrew    Johnson,    of    Tennessee,    for    Vice-President. 

Marcus    L.    Ward,    of    New    Jersey,    Chairman    Republican    National    Committee. 
John    Defrees,   of  Indiana,    Secretary    Republican    National    Committee. 

FOURTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION,    Chicago,    May    2oth    and 

2ISt,     l868. 

L'lysses    S.    Grant,    of    Illinois,    for    President. 
Schuyler   Colfax,   of   Indiana,   for   Vice-President. 

William    Claflin.    of    Massachusetts,    Chairman    Republican    National    Committee. 
William    E.    Chandler,    of    New    Hampshire,    Secretary    Republican    National    Com- 
mittee. 


FIFTH  REPUBLICAN  NATIONAL  CONVENTION,  Academy  of  Music,  Phila- 
delphia, June  5th  and  6th,  1872. 

Ulysses    S.    Grant    of    Illinois,    for    President. 

Henry   Wilson,   of   Massachusetts,    for   Vice-President. 

Edwin    D.    Morgan,   of  New   York,   Chairman    Republican    National    Committee. 

William  E.  Chandler,  of  New  Hampshire,  Secretary  Republican  National  Com- 
mittee. 


SIXTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION,    Exposition    Hall.    Cincinnati, 

June   1 4th,   isth  and   i6th,   1876. 
Rutherford  B.   Hayes,  of  Ohio,  for  President. 
William  A.    Wheeler,   of   New   York,   for   Vice-President. 

J.   Donald   Cameron,   of  Pennsylvania,   Chairman    Republican    National    Committee. 
Thomas  B.   Keogh,   Secretary   Republican    National   Committee. 


NATIONAL   COMMITTEE  449 

SEVENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL  CONVENTION,   Exhibition  Hall,   Chicago, 

June  and,  3rd,  4th,  sth,  ;th  and  8th,  1880. 
James  A.  Garfield,  of  Ohio,   for  President. 
Chester  A.   Arthur,   of  New   York,   for  Vice-President. 
D.    M.    Sabin,   of   Minnesota,    Chairman    Republican    National    Committee. 
John   A.    Martin,   of    Kansas,    Secretary   Republican   National    Committee. 

EIGHTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION,    Chicago,    June    3rd,    4th, 

5th  and  6th,    1884. 

James   G.    Elaine,  of   Maine,    for   President. 
John  A.   Logan,  of  Illinois,   for  Vice-President. 
B.  F.  Jones,   Chairman  of  Republican  National  Committee. 
Samuel    Fessenden,    Secretary    Republican    National    Committee. 
•John   C.   New,  of  Indiana,   Chairman   Sub-Committee  on   Arrangements. 
*James   A.    Sexton,    Sergeant-at-Arms. 

NINTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION,    Chicago,   June    ipth,    aoth, 

2ist,  22nd,  2$rd  and  2$th,   1888. 
Benjamin  Harrison,  of  Indiana,  for  President. 
Levi  P.  Morton,  of  New  York,  for  Vice-President. 

Matthew    S.    Quay,    of    Pennsylvania,    Chairman    Republican    National    Committee. 
James   S.    Clarkson,    of   Iowa,    Chairman    Republican    National   Committee. 
Jacob   Sloat  Fassett,   of  New  York,  Secretary   Republican  National   Committee. 
*James   A.    Clarkson,    of   Iowa,    Chairman    Sub-Committee    on    Arrangements. 
•Charles    Fitz    Simons,    Sergeant-at-Arms. 

TENTH   REPUBLICAN   NATIONAL   CONVENTION,    Industrial   Exposition    Build- 
ing,  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  June   7th,  Sth,  pth  and   loth,   1892. 
Benjamin  Harrison,  of  Indiana,   for  President. 
Whitelaw  Reid,  of  New  York,  for  Vice-President. 

Thomas   H.    Carter,   of  Montana,   Chairman   Republican   National    Committee. 
Joseph   H.   Manley,   of  Maine,    Secretary   Republican   National    Committee. 
•James   A.    Clarkson,    of    Iowa,    Chairman    Ex-Officio    Sub-Committee    on    Arrange- 
ments. 
•Channing  F.   Meek,  of  Colorado,   Sergeant-at-Arms. 

ELEVENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION,    St.    Louis,    Mo.,    June 

1 6th,   1 7th  and   iSth,    1896. 
William   McKinley,  of  Ohio,  for  President. 
Garrett  A.   Hobart,  of  New  Jersey,  for  Vice-President. 
M.  A.  Hanna,  of  Ohio,  Chairman  Republican  National  Committee. 
Charles  Dick,  of  Ohio,  Secretary  Republican  National   Committee. 
Cornelius  Bliss,  of  New  York,  Treasurer  Republican   National   Committee. 
•Joseph   H.   Manley,   of  Maine,   Chairman   Sub-Committee   on   Arrangements. 
•Timothy   E.    Byrnes,   of   Minnesota,    Sergeant-at-Arms. 

TWELFTH  REPUBLICAN  NATIONAL  CONVENTION,  Convention  Hall,  Philadel- 
phia, June  1 9th,  20 th  and  zist,   1900. 

William  McKinley,  of  Ohio,   for  President. 

Theodore    Roosevelt,    of   New   York,    for   Vice-President. 

M.  A.   Hanna,  of  Ohio,  Chairman  Republican  National   Committee. 

Henry  C.  Payne,  of  Wisconsin,  Chairman   Republican  National  Committee. 

Perry  S.   Heath,  of  Indiana,   Secretary  Republican  National  Committee. 

Cornelius  Bliss,  of  New  York,  Treasurer  Republican  National  Committee. 
•Joseph   H.   Manley,   of  Maine,   Chairman   Sub-Committee   on   Arrangements. 
•George   N.    Wiswell,   of   Wisconsin,    Sergeant-at-Arms. 


•  Selected  by  the  Committee  chosen  at  the  prior  Convention. 


450  HISTORY   OF   THE 

THIRTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION,    Coliseum,    Chicago, 
June   2ist,   22nd  and   23rd,    1904. 

Theodore  Roosevelt,  of  New  York,  for  President. 

Charles  W.    Fairbanks,   of   Indiana,   for   Vice-President. 

George    B.    Cortelyou,    of   New   York,    Chairman    Republican    National    Committee. 

Harry  S.   New,   of  Indiana,  Chairman   Republican  National  Committee. 

Elmer   Dover,   of    Ohio,    Secretary    Republican    National    Committee: 

Cornelius  Bliss,  of  New  York,  Treasurer  Republican  National  Committee. 
*Nathan   B.    Scott,   of  West   Virginia,    Chairman   Sub-Committee  on   Arrangements. 
'William  F.    Stone,   of  Maryland,   Sergeant-at-Arms. 

FOURTEENTH    REPUBLICAN    NATIONAL    CONVENTION,    Coliseum,    Chicago, 
June   i6th,    i7th,    i8th  and    igth,    1908. 

William   H.    Taft,   of   Ohio,   for   President. 

James  S.   Sherman,  of  New  York,   for  Vice-President. 

Frank  H.  Hitchcock,  of  Massachusetts,  Chairman  Republican  National  Committee. 

John   F.   Hill,  of  Maine,    Chairman   Republican   National   Committee. 

Victor  Rosewater,  of  Nebraska,  Acting  Chairman  Republican  National  Committee. 

William  Hayward,  of  New  York,  Secretary  Republican  National   Committee. 

George  R.   Sheldon,   of  New  York,   Treasurer  Republican  National   Committee. 
*  Harry  S.   New,  of  Indiana,   Chairman  Sub-Committee  on  Arrangements. 
•William   F.    Stone,   of  Maryland,    Sergeant-at-Arms. 

John    R.   Malloy,  of  Ohio,   Secretary  of  the  Convention. 

FIFTEENTH  REPUBLICAN  NATIONAL  CONVENTION,  Coliseum,  Chicago,  June 

i8th,   ipth,  2oth,  2ist  and  22nd,   1912. 

William  H.    Taft,  of  Ohio,   for  President. 

James  S.   Sherman,   of  New  York,   for  Vice-President. 

Charles   D.    Hilles,   of  New   York,   Chairman   Republican  National   Committee. 

James   B.   Reynolds,   of   Massachusetts,   Secretary   Republican   National   Committee. 

George  R.   Sheldon,  of  New  York,  Treasurer  Republican  National  Convention. 
'Harry  S.   New,   of  Indiana,   Chairman    Sub-Committee  on  Arrangements. 
*\Villiam    F.    Stone,    of   Maryland,    Sergeant-at-Arms. 

Lafayette    B.    Gleason,   of  New   York,    Secretary   of  the    Convention 


*  Selected  by  the   Committee   chosen  at   the   prior   Convention. 


MR.   CKORCK  T.    KKLI.Y.   of   Illinois, 
Secretary   of   the   Local   Committee. 


The  Local  Committee  and  Its   Work. 


BY  GEORGE  T.  KELLY. 


Again  Chicago  ha's  demonstrated  her  ability  as  hostess  and  justified 
her  reputation  as  the  greatest  of  convention  cities. 

When  Fred  W.  Upham  appeared  before  the  Republican  National 
Committee  in  Washington  last  December  and  asked  that  the  convention 
for  1912  be  held  in  Chicago,  he  personally  guaranteed  all  expenses.  Mr. 
Upham  had  no  assurances  from  any  one  that  he  would  be  relieved  from 
the  burden  of  his  promise,  but  he  has  a  keen  appreciation  of  the  spirit 
of  the  men  of  Chicago,  and  consequently  knew  that  when  properly  ap- 
proached they  would  stand  back  of  him  in  the  undertaking. 

It  was  necessary  to  raise  over  a  hundred  thousand  dollars.  In  his 
characteristic  way  he  proceeded  promptly  to  do  it.  He  appointed  a  local 
executive  committee,  and  in  addition  some  eighty  chairmen,  each  of 
whom  represented  a  distinct  branch  of  business  or  professional  life,  and 
each  of  whom  was  charged  with  the  duty  of  appointing  his  own  sub-com- 
mittee and  raising  a  stipulated  sum  of  money.  Mr.  Upham  kept  in  close 
personal  touch  with  each  of  these  chairmen,  and  with  the  result  that 
long  before  the  opening  session  much  more  money  than  was  needed  had 
been  collected. 

The  Coliseum  was  taxed  at  every  session  to  its  capacity ;  neverthe- 
less, the  hall  at  no  time  was  uncomfortable  for  delegate  or  guest,  for  the 
ventilation  was  entirely  satisfactory. 

The  hall  was  appropriately  decorated  and  carefully  arranged  to  seat 
with  comfort  the  greatest  possible  number.  Rough  iron  work,  arched 
overhead,  was  decorated  with  red,  white  and  blue  bunting,  and  the  gal- 
leries were  marked  by  lines  of  mountain  laurel  draped  about  tri-colored 
shields  and  flags.  Back  of  the  Chairman's  table  on  the  platform  were 
the  seats  of  the  Republican  National  Committee  and  their  guests.  At 
the  side  of  the  platform  500  seats  for  newspaper  men  were  grouped, 
where  every  word  was  heard  distinctly.  In  front  of  the  Chairman's  ta- 
ble, and  facing  south  were  1,178  chairs.  In  the  various  sections  were 
metal  stands  indicating  the  State  'represented.  Farther  back,  and  facing  in 
the  same  direction,  there  were  1,178  seats  for  the  alternates.  Along  the 
sides  of  the  building,  around  the  far  north  end  in  a  banked-up  arch,  and 
in  another  layer,  duplicating  this  in  the  balcony,  row  after  row  of  seats, 
close  packed  as  possible,  stretched  around  the  rest  of  the  hall. 

451 


452  HISTORY   OF   THE 

At  eleven  different  stations  throughout  the  hall  stood  a  doctor,  a 
trained  nurse  and  a  messenger,  and  at  their  hand  was  an  annunciator 
bell  to  summon  aid  from  the  complete  temporary  hospital  if  medical  ser- 
vices were  called  for.  Telephones  and  telegraph  instruments  were  clus- 
tered about  the  narrow,  velvet-chained  path  leading  up  in  front  of  the 
Chairman's  table. 

Excellently  planned  and  beautifully  decorated  quarters  were  set  aside 
for  the  National  Committee  in  the  Coliseum  Annex.  This  feature  be- 
came most  important  during  the  protracted  sessions  of  the  Committee 
while  hearing  the  many  contests. 

Riots  and  other  disturbances  were  threatened  in  the  convention  hall 
by  forces  contending  for  supremacy.  The  police  arrangements,  however, 
were  such  that  the  delegates  were  permitted  to  proceed  with  the  business 
of  the  Convention  without  serious  interference  from  any  source,  de- 
spite the  fact  that  tense  situations  were  constantly  arising. 

The  officers  of  the  local  committee  were :  Fred  W.  Upham,  Chair- 
man ;  Samuel  B.  Raymond,  Vice-chairman ;  John  C.  Roth,  Treasurer,  and 
George  T.  Kelly,  Secretary.  The  local  committee  was  made  up  of  the 
following : 

J.  W.  Blabon  George  F.  Getz 

Henry  A.  Blair  John  M.  Glenn 

Fred  A.  Busse  A.  W.  Goodrich 

H.  M.  Byllesby  Samuel  Insull 

D.  A.   Campbell  Frank  C.  Letts 
Arthur   Meeker  Julius  Rosenwald 
Seymour  Morris  Fred  L.  Rossbach 
James  A.  Patten  J.  Harry  Selz 
Alexander  H.  Revell  John  C.  Shaffer 
George  M.  Reynolds  James  Simpson 

E.  F.  Carry  John  F.   Smulski 
Charles  G.  Dawes  John  A.  Spoor 
Charles   Deering  Charles  A.  Stevens 
George  W.  Dixon  Homer  A.  Stillwell 
Evan   Evans  B.  E.  Sunny 
John  V.  Farwell  Roy  O.  West 

W.  A.  Gardner  Harry  A.  Wheeler 

George  H.  Gazley  Walter  H.  Wilson 

In  reviewing  the  work  of  the  local  committee  it  is  only  fair  to  say 
that  the  credit  for  securing  the  convention  for  Chicago;  for  raising  the 
money  to  defray  expenses,  and  for  planning  and  superintending  each  de- 
tail of  the  perfect  arrangements  belongs  to  Fred  W.  Upham.  Mr.  Up- 
ham unselfishly  gave  to  the  undertaking  a  great  amount  of  the  time  of  an 


453  THE    LOCAL   COMMITTEE    AND    ITS    WORK. 

unusually  busy  man.  He  devoted  to  the  task  his  remarkable  energy,  his 
wonderful  enthusiasm,  his  great  ability,  and  the  rare  judgment  and  effi- 
ciency of  one  of  much  experience  in  like  affairs.  The  Rebublican  Nation- 
al Convention  of  1912  was  a  magnificent  success.  Chicago  may  thank 
Mr.  Upham. 

GEORGE  T.  KELLY 
Secretary. 


INDEX. 


A. 

Adams,  John   L.,   elected   Assistant    Secretary 101 

Alabama,  Ninth  District,  contest 169,  172,  174 

Ninth  District,  roll  call 179,  185,  189 

Allen,    Henry    J.,    remarks    by 52,  115,  332 

Arizona,   report  on  contest 190,  193 

Arizona,   roll  call   on  contest 195 

Arkansas,    Fifth   District,  contest 197,  198 

B. 

Elaine,   J.   J.,    remarks    by 364 

Blair,   Wm.,  elected  Reading  Clerk 101 

Blumenberg,  M.  W.,  elected  as  Stenographer 100 

Bossard,   Otto,   elected  as   Reading  Clerk 101 

Bradley,  \Y.  O.,  remarks  by 49 

Butler,  Nicholas  Murray,  speech  seconding  nomination 385 

C. 

Cady,    Samuel    II.,    remarks   by 363 

California,  Fourth    District   contest 199,  200 

roll  call    213,  218 

Callaghan,  James  F.,  elected  Chaplain 29 

prayer  by    29 

Capel,    H.   A.,   elected    Messenger 101 

Carey,  John  J.,  remarks  by 49 

Cochems,   Henry   F.,  remarks  by 42,  55 

Committees,   resolution    for   appointment 101 

Resolution  to  amend  roll 102,  105 

Permanent  Organization 162 

Credentials     163 

Rules  and  Order  of  Business 164 

Resolutions 165 

Convention,    call    for 30 

temporary  roll,  motion  to  correct 32 

point  of  order  on 32,  40 

Credentials,    report    on,    list    of 163 

454 


INDEX.  455 

Credentials,  report  of  committee  on 

Alabama,    Ninth   District 169,  172,  174 

Arizona   190,  193,  195 

Arkansas,  Fifth   District 197,  198 

California,    Fourth    District 199,  200,  213,  218 

District  of  Columbia 304 

Georgia,  delegates  at  large 219 

Indiana,  delegates  at  large 220,  222 

Thirteenth  District 223,  224 

Kentucky,   Seventh  District    225,  228 

Eighth  District    229,  230 

Louisiana,  Fourth  District 231 

Fifth  District 232 

Michigan,  delegates  at  large 233,  235 

Mississippi,  delegates  at  large 244 

North  Carolina,  Fourth  District 249 

Oklahoma    Third    District 252 

Tennessee,  Second  District 253 

Texas,  delegates  at  large 282,  283,  287 

First  District 289 

Second  District    289 

Third  District   290 

Fourth    District    290,  293 

Fifth  District    294 

Seventh   District    295,  296 

Ninth    District    298 

Tenth    District    • 298,  300 

Fifteenth   District    304 

Virginia,  Fifth  District 265 

Washington,    delegates   at   large 254,  257 

First  District   262,  263 

Second  District  263,  264 

Third  District 264 

Committee  on  Credentials,  statement  by 240 

Report   on   abandoned   contests 266 

D. 

Dalrymple,  A.   N.,  elected  Assistant   Secretary 101 

Deneen,  Charles  S.,  resolution  by. 144 

Devine,  Thomas  H.,  remarks  by 133 

District  of  Columbia,  contest 304 

Dovell,  W.  T.,  remarks  by 106,  176,  260 


456  INDEX. 

F. 

Fisher,  A.  E.,  elected  Tally  Clerk 101 

Flinn,  William,  remarks  by 45,  59 

Fort,  John  Franklin,  remarks  by 36 

G. 

Calvin,  J.  M.,  elected  Reading  Clerk 101 

Galvin,  Maurice  L.,  remarks  by 139 

Gates,  L.   C,  remarks  by 55 

Gleason,  Lafayette  B.,  elected  Temporary  Secretary 100 

Permanent    Secretary    332 

Groner,  D.  L.,  remarks  by 47 

Graham,  A.  G.,  elected  Reading  Clerk 101 

H. 

Hadley,  Herbert  S.,  remarks  by : 

resolution  as  to  roll 102,  105 

resolution  as  to  voting 177 

temporary  chairmanship    44 

temporary    roll    32,  33,  106,  143 

Halbert,  Hugh  T.,  remarks  by 259 

Hanson,  J.  J.,  election  as  Chief  of  Doorkeepers 100 

Hart,  Albert  Bushnell,   remarks  of 53 

Harding,   Warren    G.,  nominating   speech 377 

Hedges,  Job  E.,   remarks   by 43 

Hemenway,  James  A.,  remarks  by 120 

Heney,  Francis  J.,  remarks  by 47,  56,  202 

Hill,  John  Wesley,  elected  Chaplain 100 

prayer  by   239 

Houser,  W.  L.,  remarks  by 54 

I. 

Indiana,  report  on  contest,  delegates  at  large 220,  222 

report  on  contest,  Thirteenth  District 223,  224 

J. 

Johnson,  Hiram  W.,  remarks  by ;  California  contest 209 

temporary   chairmanship    44,  56 

K. 

Kennedy,  Crawford,  elected  Messenger 101 

Kentucky,  contest  Seventh  District 225,  228 

Kentucy,  contest  Eighth  District   229,  230 


INDEX.  457 


Lampson,  E.  L.,  election  as  Parliamentarian 100 

Lindsay,  H.  G,  Assistant  Secretary 100 

Littleton,   C.   C,   remarks  by 137 

Local  committee  and  its  work 451 

Louisiana,  contest  Fourth  District 23f 

Louisiana,   contest  Fifth   District 231 

Me. 

McGovern,   Francis  E.,  nominated  for  Temporary  Chairman 42 

McNary,  John  H.,  elected  Assistant  Secretary 101 

M. 

Mackay,  John  D.,   remarks  by 138,  237 

Michigan,  contest,  delegates  at  large 233,  235 

Mississippi,  contest,  delegates  at  large 244,  245 

Second  District 246 

Fifth   District 247 

Sixth  District   247 

Seventh  District 248 

Morrison,   Robert   E.,   remarks  by 131 

Moorman,  John  L.,  elected  Assistant  Secretary 101 

Munson,  E.  W.,  elected  Reading  Clerk 101 

N. 

National  convention,  time,  place  and  nominees 447 

National  Committee — 

Advisory   Committee    26 

Executive    Committee    26 

Manner  of  selection  and  term  of  office 443 

Members  of    27,  374 

Officers  of   26 

Vacancies  in   408 

Notification   committees    407,  409,  410 

Nominating  speeches,  W.  G.  Harding 377 

"M.    B.    Olbrich 386 

"seconding,  John  Wanamaker  382 

"Nicholas  Murray  Butler  385 

"Robert  M.  Pollock 390 

Nominating,  Vice-President,  J.  Van  Vechten  Olcott 403 

North  Carolina  contest,  Fourth  District 249 


458  INDEX. 

o. 

Officers  of  Convention — 

Permanent   332 

Temporary   100 

Oklahoma,  Third  District  contest 252 

Oklahoma,  National  Committeeman  408 

Olbrich,  Michael  B.,  nominating  speech 386 

Olcott,  J.  Van  Vechten,  nominating  speech  by 403 

Olmstead,  Marlin  E.,  election  as  Parliamentarian    100 

Orchard,  E.  R.,  elected  Reading  Clerk  101 

P. 

Palmer,  Calvin  A.,  remarks  by 236 

Payne,  Sereno  E.,  remarks  by 37,  204 

Permanent  Organization  Committee  on,  list  of 162 

report    of    331 

Pexton,  Sidney,  elected  Tally  Clerk 101 

Platform   (report  Committee  on   Resolutions) 342 

(minority  report)    351 

roll  call  on    366,  373 

points  of  order 178,  179 

interruptions 118,  126,  262 

temporary    roll    32,  40,  178,  179 

Pollock,  Robert  M.,  speech,  seconding  nomination 390 

President,  roll  call  on  nomination 391,  402 

President,  committee  to  notify  candidate 409 

R. 

Record,  George  L.,  remarks  by  124 

Resolutions,   Committee   on  List  of 165 

report    of    342,  351,  366,  373 

Resolution — 

Committee  on  Notification 40"7 

Convention  proceedings,  publication  of 407 

National    Committee,   vacancies 408 

thanks  to  officers 411 

Chicago   Committee 411 

final  adjournment   411 

Roll  of  Convention,  permanent  305 

motion  to  amend   32,  105,  113 

Vacancies   in    nominations..  408 


INDEX.  459 


Roll  Calls- 


election  Temporary  Chairman    61 

temporary  roll,  to  amend 146 

Alabama   contest,  Ninth  District    179,  185,  187,  189 

California   218 

platform    366,  373 

Root,  Elihu,  address  by 88 

nominated    for  Temporary    Chairman 42 

elected    Permanent    Chairman    332 

vote  on  election  as  Permanent  Chairman 61 

ruling  by   159,  178,  179,  262 

ruling  by  as  to  alternates 395,  398 

speech  of  notification 412 

Rosewater,  Victor,  Convention  called  to  order  by 29 

ruling  on  point   of  order    40 

Rules,   adoption  of   101 

Rules  and  Order  of  Business,  Committee  on,  list  of 164 

Rules  and  Order  of  Business,  report  of 335 

Rules  and  Order  of  Business,  minority  report  of 339 

S. 

Shaw,  John  Balcom,  elected  Chaplain 100 

prayer  by  168 

Sherman,  James  Schoolcraft,  nomination  for  Vice-President,  roll  call  404 

acceptance  —  v 437 

sketch  of  life  22 

Stoddard,  E.  Percy,  elected  Assistant  Secretary  101 

Stolz,  Joseph,  elected  Chaplain 100 

prayer  by 105 

Stone,  William  L.,  elected  sergeant-at-arms 100 

sergeant-at-arms  100 

Sullivan,  John  J.,  remarks  by 49 

Sumner,  Dean  Walter  T.,  elected  Chaplain 100 

prayer  by  167 

Sutherland,  George,  address  of  notification 434 

T. 

Taft,  William  Howard,  nomination  for  President,  roll  call  on  402 

acceptance  of  414 

sketch  of  life 7 

Tennessee,  contest,  Second  District   253 


460  INDEX. 

Texas,   contests,    delegates   at   large 282,  283,  287 

First  District    289 

Second  District  289 

Third  District  290 

Fourth  District   290,  293 

Fifth    District    294 

Seventh  District 295,  296 

Ninth  District  298 

Tenth  District   298,  300 

Fifteenth    District    304 

Thomas,  Harry  G.,  elected  Tally  Clerk 101 

Thayer,  E.  P.,  Assistant  Sergeant-at-arms 100 

Townsend,  Wallace,  elected  Tally  Clerk  101 

V. 

vacancies   in  nominations 408 

Vessey,  R.  S.,  remarks  by  52 

Vice-Presidents  of  convention 375 

Vice-President,  roll  call  on  nomination  for 404 

Vice-President,   committee  to  notify  candidate 410 

Virginia  contest,  Fifth  District   265 

W. 

Waite,  W.  A.,  elected  Reading  Clerk 101 

Wanamaker,  John,  speech  seconding  nomination 382 

Washington,  contest,   delegates   at  large 254,  257 

First  District   262,  263 

Second    District    263,  264 

Third  District  264 

Watson,  James  E.,  remarks  by  38,  141 

California,    contest    208 

White,  A.  W.,  elected  Assistant  Secretary   101 

White,  David  J.,  elected  Tally  Clerk 101 

Williamson,  Thomas,  elected  Reading  Clerk  101 

Wood,  J.  E.,  remarks  by   45 

Woodill,  Harry  C,  elected  Tally  Clerk  101 


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